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Marvelicious1

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Can anyone help me figure out what's causing my computer to perform badly? When playing Battlefield 3 with everything on low (except for mesh quality, which is on high) I am getting anywhere from 40 fps up to about 180. It's usually between 70-90. This goes for other games as well, which is really deterring me from purchasing new games with high requirements.

Motherboard: Asus P8H61-M PRO

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD7970 Vapor-X GHz Edition

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30 Ghz

Any feedback that could potentially help me solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Hi, just some ideas to throw out there...
1 have you checked temp for CPU/GPU
2 what is the make and model of your PSU (and how old is it)
3 have you tried removing drivers with uninstaller program and then ccleaning then reinstall?

Just some thoughts, good luck
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lukapavlinovi

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This hardware is good. You could play BF3 on High-Ultra settings. How old is your PC? And do you have antivirus program? If you don't get one (AVG, Avira, Avast are best). And never mix antivirus programs (don't have two installed at same time) because that will lower PC performance drasticaly. If this doesn't help try Advanced System Care, CCleaner, MalwareBytes or some good program like them. Your last option will be reinstalling Windows. That must help. Good luck!
 
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Marvelicious1

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My computer is pretty much exactly 2 years old, my CPU had problems with overheating until I replaced the stock cooler with a Noctua NH-U12S. It used to reach 90+ degrees, now it never exceeds 60 degrees. My power supply is a Chieftec Nitro 85+ 650W. I recently made sure that all my old drivers were gone and updated everything (including the BIOS). I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my anti-virus program.

When playing Starcraft 2 I hit about 20 fps when I have a supply capped army on screen.

Edit: My GPU doesn't even break a sweat regardless of what I play, from what I can tell.
 
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lukapavlinovi

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I think PSU change is not necessary. If you will change it go safe and take Corsair because it has 80plus certificates on all PSUs. Also, is this CPU overclocked? Wrong overclock settings can make system unstable and games also.
 
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I doubt that because his motherboard doesn't support that,it has a H61 chipset,not the required Z68 or Z77 chipset.
 
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