Getting low performance from i5 3570k 8gig dominator

Alliegill

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Hi I bought i5 3750k , gigabyte z77x-ud3h plus 8 gig dominator 1600mgz yesterday to replace my old parts .. I have a amd radeon hd 6870 with 1gig ddr5 .. I was soo disappointed when I played games on it . to me it seems like my old 2010 setup was a lot better at handling game ? I had Asus m3n78-em . Amd phenom x4. plus the same graphic card I mentioned before and 4 gig Kingston ram. I finished far cry3 on it a week ago till it stopped working seemed like motherboard was faulty . I used to fun far cry on high to ultra setting ,without any sort of choppiness or lag on high setting it was a smooth gameplay throughout ..

But now after installing i5 new motherboard and double the ram it is laggy gameplay I am getting 35-50 frames a sec on high setting and on low settings I get around 80-90 frames .what is wrong . ..I am going physco nuts because I spent all my $600 saving on the new setup and I don't feel any difference it's just gotten worse :( I have not clocked the i5 and never clocked my old CPU .i would have expected a lot better performance for what I paid for . I could have just gone out and bought a second hand asus for $40-50 and carried on .. Y :( ? . I will really appreciate any help. :)
 
I used to have a 6850 and upgraded to an i5 from an oc'd core 2 quad and I noticed a significant improvement, but the video card was still a bottleneck. I doubt you were running farcry 3 on high-ultra, as much better video cards than yours struggle to run it on that. One of my first questions: did you install any lucid virtu software that came with your motherboard disc? uninstall it, it is poo. I actually found my pc to run faster with only installing the bare minimum drivers from the motherboard disc.
 

Alliegill

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Having trouble installing the latest driver. I will reinstall windows 8 now and start from scratch and see how it goes . :)
 

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It's was running around 35-40 fps on ultra before I upgraded and on high I was getting a good gameplay with decent frame rate without any lag ,that's why I ended up finishing the game. :p but I can really tell the difference now even on medium it feels a choppy and I get around 45-60 fps . I will uninstall the windows and the try only downloading the software I need for the build :)

 

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Yeah now it seems strange to me how my setup manged to run that fast ? I will never know lol now another proble came up my the computer keeps freezing happen 5-6 times in last few hours . It's my first ever intel chip I never had any freezing or lag with amd :l
 


please don't blame the intel chip for your freezing and lag, there are plenty of others who would say the opposite.
 

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I went with intel I know it's good I am just talking from my experience personally. Regarding the problems I am facing ATM :(