BF3/560 Ti question

[duomaxwl]

I have a question. I can run BF3 on the High settings, without going under 30fps (normally stays around 40fps) at 1920x1200 resolution. I had my Process Monitor running as well as GPU-Z, and my CPU was maxing staying around 90% during gameplay, but my graphics card load was only around 70%. I was curious as to if this is normal for the graphics load to stay that low?

Specs:
nVidia (PNY) 560 Ti:
GPU clock: 823MHz
Memory: 1002 MHz
Shader: 1645 MHz

AMD Phenom II x4 955BE @3.2Ghz
G.Skill ram DDR3 1600 (4gigs)

I thought the 560 Ti would run it a little better, but I'm not really disappointed. Just curious if there is a way to get that extra 30% working my favor. :) Thanks!

[Bags]

If your CPU is maxed I'm guessing that's your bottleneck. Overclock that bitch.

[Goku]

What driver are you using currently? There is a beta driver from Nvidia for better BF3 performance if you have not tried already.

I still do not know the performance of CPUs in BF3 as there has not been any good charts out yet. Though the Phenom II maybe bit of a bottleneck in the game.

[duomaxwl]

I'm using the beta driver. I'll try overclocking it. I had it at 3.7 GHz before but I didn't like how hot the temps were getting even with my Hyper 212+. I'll try it and see if that's the issue. Thanks. I'll get back to yall.

[Goku]

For reference a preview of the BF3 performance with a i7 920 (3.6 GHz overclock) and GTX 560 Ti had it running Ultra with no moition blur at around 40 FPS average having 1920x1200 as the resolution.

[duomaxwl]

Bringing it up to 3.5ghz brought it up to 99%. Also, for the most part it let me run Ultra at the FPS I was getting on High. Just need another case fan. Thanks gents.

[Goku]

Glad to hear it made a difference. Phenom II is still not a bad gaming CPU by any means.