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Ruyo

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Hello, I recently rebuilt my PC and games aren't really running any better than on my old machine.

Windows 8.1
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Motherboard
Intel i7-3770k 3.5 GHz Processor
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR 3 Ram

Titanfall starts out beautifully, completely smooth but over the course of a 10 minute match it turns unplayable. Farcry 3 Blood Dragon is the same way, even Paranautical Activity.
Windows 8.1 isn't new, I had it in my old machine. I thought maybe my old 4 GB of Ram was the problem but it doesn't really run any better with 16.
I do have the latest Nvidia drivers.
 
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10 minutes? Sounds like temp throttling to me.

Use a graphics and CPU temperature monitoring program (such as evga's precision x for your 780, and coretemp for your cpu).

It could be you didn't apply the thermal paste / heatsink assembly properly, or that your gfx card has a heat issue and needs to be RMAd.
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Try re installing games, and run stress tests on your cards to see if they're damaged in any way. Your system should perform good under those games, but when you have damaged or non-working parts, it will not.

But other times, some games are just poorly optimized and no matter the type of system you have it will not run smoothly, but that is the game's fault. This is unlikely though, these are newer titles and from research run fine on other player's systems, so I see no reason it should not be the same for yours. Please consider though, that this could also be a factor, and try running other graphically intensive games, BF4, Crysis, anything like that. If those games run smoothly, then it is the game's fault, if not than you should physically check your components.
 
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10 minutes? Sounds like temp throttling to me.

Use a graphics and CPU temperature monitoring program (such as evga's precision x for your 780, and coretemp for your cpu).

It could be you didn't apply the thermal paste / heatsink assembly properly, or that your gfx card has a heat issue and needs to be RMAd.
 
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Ruyo

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Looks like my CPU is overheating. For some reason I'm idling at 80C and during a round of Titanfall it reached 102. I'll definitely check the Thermal Paste and Heatsink. Thanks.

I'm embarrassed to say, but I had the CPU Fan cable tangled in the fan, preventing it from spinning... Games run so much better now, thanks for the heat tip.
 
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That is insane... try always to use something to old all cables in your case :)

Nice rig :)

 
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