New system compatibility issues with old video card

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I just upgraded my MB, RAM and Processor with new install win 7 pro 64 on new HDD. I am using my old video card until I can get the one I want. Whats happening is a lot of video issues. I crash trying to run benchmark with unigine less like 20 FPS which was not an issue before. I even tried to watch a video online and it crashed. Windows will tweak out where the color is all messed up on the toolbar and the top of the windows bar and the minimize max X buttons are all funky looking. Also tried to run witcher 2 comes up to start screen and stops working. I don’t get any errors or BSOD just app closes. I have checked drives and reinstalled old and new ones but no difference. I am hoping someone might have had a similar issue and that its not just my video card doesn’t play well with my MB/CPU.

Thanks for any help. Let me know if you need any more info.

here are my old specs(both have win 7 pro 64 bit)

video card- SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Ram- 8gb total- OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066

MB- ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

CPU- Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition


New Specs

Video card- Same as above

RAM- 8gb total- G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model

MB- ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

CPU- AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8320FRHKBOX

(I had links but guess they don't work sorry)
 
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So far looks like it's was a SW issue. Now using A Nvidia card and had similar issues. when I would try loading windows updates it would fail also. So I did 10 updates at a time and when I was finished the Nvidia card worked will ran benchmarks and everything. Will be testing amd card this weekend.
 
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So managed to test my old video card today. I got the same issue again. then it created a whole list of issue when trying to use the Nvidia card again. so I had to clean install windows just to get the Nvidia card to work. So I am concluding that my system doesn't like my old card or its drivers.
 
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Solution second stick of ram was bad. The reason it was so intermittent was it only got affected when it hit that stick. I put just the second stick in and at boot up it messed up. Put just first stick in and no issues. I have since RMA to Gskill. Just wanted to update in case someone has same kind of issue.
 
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