Anything bottle-necking my GTX 760? (solved)

[shipinabottle]

A few of my system specs:
Intel i7 2600K w/ upgraded heatsink
XFX 650W PSU (about a year old)
EVGA GTX 760

In a lot of games, like Assassin's Creed IV, I can only get 30fps with MSAA 2x. If I turn it up to MSAA 4x, I immediately see some stuttering. So, what can be bottle-necking my performance? Or is that all that the 760 can do and I need a new GPU?

 

[birthdaymonkey]

1. That CPU shouldn't bottleneck a 760 in the large majority of games.
2. If you find it it's slow when you turn up the AA, it's the GPU that's the problem. AA depends (almost?) entirely on the video card.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Your problem is the GTX 760. It is all it can probably do in Assassin' Creed Unity especially with 4x Msaa. The rest of the rig is fine and would be even more awsome with a GTX 970.

 

[Leyawiin]

Using vertical sync? If so switch to Adaptive in the NV control panel. Works wonders to smooth out games with an old GTX 660 of mine.

 

[tweakboy]

Nice leyawiin. I choose always ON ,,,,,,,,

 

[sub-80]

1. That CPU shouldn't bottleneck a 760 in the large majority of games.
2. If you find it it's slow when you turn up the AA, it's the GPU that's the problem. AA depends (almost?) entirely on the video card.

+1

 

[utahraptor]

Do you have a 2nd monitor? If so a good tip is to run the gadgets CPU and GPU monitor. You can even run them in windows 8 with special workarounds. At a glance it tells you exactly what CPU/GPU utilization you have so you would instantly know what the bottleneck was. It even shows GPU RAM utilization and per core CPU loading.

This is what I see if I glance to the right:

 

[shipinabottle]

Thanks for replying, everyone. Guess I have to buy a new GPU if I want better graphics then...