Some performance observations + graphics settings that have an effect

[Kittra]

anyone know if a q6700 OCed to 3.33 with load temps at 60C would bottleneck my msi gtx560ti hawk?

i play on everything high...and get around 30-60fps on some places and 20 fps in cities.

Wow, that's an old CPU these days.

The answer is yes I'm afraid. I have a PC with a Q9300 at 2.5ghz and when I upgraded my GT 9800 to a GTX 570 I was always wondering why it seemed to give me the same performance as before the upgrade.
Turns out the GPU could only ever use a max of 50-60% of it's power because of the CPU. I eventually built a PC with a AMD Phenom II X6 CPU and the GTX 570 had a chance to show it's true potential.