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Performance issues in gaming after upgrading PC (CPU, Motherboard)

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January 28, 2014 3:07:32 PM

I recently upgraded my PC by installing a new CPU and motherboard and things have started to get annoying. I have been having major issues with running games at a steady frame rate with drops which lead to stuttering and and all around poor performance. I formatted both of my hard drives, installed all of the required drivers and they are all up to date. I have been struggling to play battlefield 4 on any graphics settings, including low and Guild Wars 2. Both of these games perform terribly on my system since the upgraded parts were put in and fail to keep a steady frame rate. Both of these games played fine on my old set up and I'm confused and irritated because I don't understand why putting better parts in would cause the games to play worse. I have tried:
-Unparking cores
-Uninstalling Microsoft C++ 2010 (x86)
-Uninstalling and re-installing the games that run poorly.
Any help and suggestions to help me fix this problem that I am having would be appreciated. Thanks
My specs:
AMD FX-9370
Corsair H100i liquid cooling
Radeon 5970 - Black Edition
Kingston Predator 2400Mhz RAM
1TB Seagate Pipeline
1TB Seagate Barracuda
1000w Coolermaster silent pro
Asrock Extreme4 970 motherboard
All running on Windows 7

The items that were replaced
Intel i7 920 2.66GHz
Gigabye (not sure which one) motherboard

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January 28, 2014 3:42:56 PM

The fx9370 is only compatible with the selected 990FX motherboards. Your 970 chipset MB maybe have problem to use the fx9370, beause the fx9370's TDP ( thermal design power ) = 220W, you can check what is your cpu frequency. You should buy the better 990 chipset MB for the FX 9 series cpu.
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January 28, 2014 4:06:04 PM

cin19 said:
The fx9370 is only compatible with the selected 990FX motherboards. Your 970 chipset MB maybe have problem to use the fx9370, beause the fx9370's TDP ( thermal design power ) = 220W, you can check what is your cpu frequency. You should buy the better 990 chipset MB for the FX 9 series cpu.


Are there any tests I could do to check the compatability of my CPU with my motherboard. And could you send me some links to the better 990 chipset motherboards?
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a c 578 V Motherboard
January 29, 2014 8:00:30 AM

The lowest price one is the asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, you can go to the cpu support list to see the MB is compatible with fx9370 or not. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99FX_PRO_R20/#suppo...

other like:
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z (best)
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