Vid card change with odd results

Chiefs59

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Sep 2, 2013
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I had the fan lock on my Radeon card so I switched to a bit older GeForce card I had, cleaned out the old cards drivers and installed the newest version of the GeForce drivers. Since then no matter what game I play I have huge CPU and FPS drops at around 2.5 minutes in no matter what game. I have watched in Task Manager and oddly soon as I alt-tab out of the games the CPU usage immediately begins to drop. If I go back into the game I can play for a couple minutes until it happens again. This happens on internet games as well as local. I see nothing on my processes list eating resources and yet I have an immediate hard drop in performance. SWTOR is not the only game but I was looking at framerate in this one and went from low 30s to 4 or 5 as if a switch were flipped. It seems it will not speed back up with logging or alt-tab to desktop. I have used this pc for a while with no issues on any of the games I have been trying until the card switch. Any ideas?