Nothing is playing smooth on my new gaming pc!!

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swilley07

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hey guys, so here are the specs of my pc, i'm sure its not my comptuer. But what could it be? Tera is very laggy when i move from side to side, then i went to play battlefield 3 and it's unplayable to the point i can't shoot without lagging. Any advice?
I just custom built this pc 2 days ago

Windows 7
CPU: Intel i5-3350p ivy bridge 3.1ghz
GPU: Radeon Saphire HD 7970 3gb
HDD: Western Digital 1TB
PSU: 1000W something.. sorry
Ram: Crucial ballistix sport 8gb (2x4gb) ( upgrading to 16 gig )
MOBO: ASRock Z77 extreme4
 
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skit75

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something with the video card perhaps..... bad driver or bad card. Hard to imagine needing more than 8GB RAM for gaming on this rig but it is cheap so, why not.

Are you able to reproduce any of these game breaking effects, outside of a game?
 
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swilley07

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Thank you all for the reply.

-Drivers are up to date with graphics card.
-power supply is 80 plus bronze certified " coolmax zu 1000w "
-Cpu temperature is at 80 degrees
-just updated my bios
Any more troubleshooting tips?
 
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swilley07

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You did it! My cpu heatsink wasn't connected to my chip. Well it was connected but not touching, now time to buy some thermal paste or maybe a new one. Think i did any damage? it was running at 200 degrees while playing tera and i spent a few hours gaming already.
Thanks!
 
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Sw7fty

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Had this problem for ages on my new PC and couldn't figure out what was the problem, I had an on board video card so I switched to that and the problem went away (sure the on board was naff but it rendered ok) I sent the card back to amazon who sent me a new one and same thing happened, pulling my hair out at this point sent the card back and got a completely different card and hey waddayaknow it works like a dream. Check for burns on card, check burns on motherboard, check drivers (I know you checked em once but check em again) go to your bios and switch off the on board video if that's possible, then uninstall any other drivers for video cards that aren't associated with your video card, if you found any of these software issues was happening before you start playing games to test it out uninstall drivers for your video card and reinstall them to avoid any corruption difficulties bought on by the conflicting drivers and their un installation
 
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