7870 Dropping to 40 fps for everything!

Lewinop

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Hi Guys,

I'm running a powercolour 7870 tahiti with a i5 3570K and im having issues with framedrops on every game i play ( Street Fighter, L4D2, Dragon Nest) the thing is the games run smooth and drop randomly to 40 fps and even more so when i alt tab.

Im computer illiterate so if any more information about my computer is required pls tell me what it is and ill supply it.

Thanks in advance.
 

spawnkiller

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Do you say that when you alt tab to another thing. the FPS drops to 40 ?? If that is your issue, that's normal, windows lost focus to the game so it decrease the priority to keep other thing running smoothly (i don't know if you actually can disable that)
 

Lewinop

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Its not only when i alt tab though, the fps just drops during gameplay without warning and its always to specifically 40.

Any ideas man? Really worried its a hardware issue