My new System is underperforming [Info Inside]

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Honey Goat

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I recently built this new PC:

i5-4670k at 3.6Ghz

Gainward GTX 770 4GB

1 x 8GB 1600Mhz RAM

[Old 500GB Hitachi HDD](http://prntscr.com/21ik78) [+](http://prntscr.com/21ilfv)

Gigabyte Z87X-D3H

GS800W PSU

I play at 1920 x 1200


Now to my **problem**:

I can't figure out why I can't play games at steady 60fps on good settings. I believed that with my 770 (which I paid a fortune for) and the rest of the parts, I'd be able to destroy games, but until now I've been so disappointed and sad at the performance. I've talked to friends that play the same games with the same mods with the same settings on *worse* PC are able to get 60fps or just general better results. For example, modded Skyrim I get 60fps indoors but only 45-50 outdoors while others have flawless gameplay with the same settings.




**What can I do?**

I have no idea what to do. I've done AV scans and Malwarebytes scan. I've clean installed Windows 7 again and just installed Skyrim and the mods with slightly better results. How do I make sure that my parts are working properly? The only old part in my system is my HDD and I think that is the problem but I have been told that that can't be the cause, but I'd like more input on this.

Any comments and suggestions are really welcome. If you need more info too find out what's wrong, I'm willing to download programs and do tests
 
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Honey Goat

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Device Manager is clean.

Nvidia drivers are up to date. Not sure what other drivers there are

Temperatures are normal when ingame and tabbing out

In Event viewer, it says I've had 2 disk errors and Application hangs in the last 24 hours

 
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Disk errors are bad. Try to change the sata cable and see if that helps.
Other drivers are sata drivers (Inter Matrix something), the chipset inf drivers and the lan / wifi drivers of cause.
 
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Honey Goat

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Have you looked at the screenshots I've linked about my HDD? I think that's the problem to be honest. I'll try changing the cables

I'll also look at the sata drivers
 
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pick up another dimm the same size or return the dimm you got and get 2by4 kit. with new intel mb you want two dimms for the memory controller.
with one dimm your running in single channel mode not duel. in the bios turn on xmp profile. in the bios turn off cpu c states it keep the cpu from idling down. in the nvidia control panel make sure with one monitor you turn off muilt monitor support and set power management to performance not adaptive. use msi afterburner set a fan profile 100 percent at 50c so the gpu wont clock down for heat. check in msi when running a game that the gpu running at max speed. use gpu-z make sure the card and pci slot is read right and check that you put the gpu in the right slot.
 
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