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Hello, today I upgraded my computer from a Sapphire AMD RADEON HD 7750(1GB) Graphics card to a Sapphire AMD RADEON R9 280X(3GB) and factory overclocked, and now my computer is running really slow and freezes every so often. Also, Catalyst Control center won't open, even when I run it as administrator.

When I installed the drivers, windows had an error automatically installing them, so the manual said to skip to step 2, which is installing the drivers with the disk they gave you. So I tried that too, and it also failed. So I tried it again, but this time I un-installed everything AMD (except the HDMI sound because I wasn't sure about that), and then I restarted it and installed the updated catalyst control center package from the website, and then put the disk in and also installed the graphics card drivers. Now the drivers are installed, my computer is acting really slowly.

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Ram:8 GB RAM
Processor:AMD FX6350 6 core
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X
Graphics card: AMD R9 280X
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 BIT

When I goto CPU usage, it usually only goes to about 2%-3%. I haven't tried playing any games yet, I'm kinda scared to just because I can't stand a slow,freezing computer. Now, before I installed the card, I also got some stuff from AMD. I got 3 free games, installed, then I got two software things.
1. Radeon RAMDISK
2. Splashtop
When I installed these, my computer worked fine, keep in mind this is on the old graphics card, but no problems at all....

I'm stuck here, please help.
 
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Can you describe the freezes and what you mean by "slow"? I can be related to many things and the first thing I will think about is the HDD not the GPU.

Have you tried to do a clean install of your GPU just in case? Use a tool like DDU to remove everything then start from scratch by installing the drivers again. You shouldn't have any error.
 
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Yeah I tried that, and so when I rebooted the pc I went on the catalyst website and re-installed new drivers, it did work BUT it said there was a problem or an error of some sort before.

By slow and freezing I mean, everything loads slow, computer starts EXTREMELY slow, freezes when I load a new web-page no matter what browser I use, freezes when I even press the start button. It took me 8 minutes from the time I booted my computer to JUST open google chrome and go to this page. I do have an SSD, should I try installing the drivers on there too and see if I have the same problem?
 
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You can install on the SSD yes but I don't think it will change anything.
Can you try to check your performances (on the task manager) and follow your disk (SSD/HDD) inputs/output and usage. Just to find out what makes thoses spikes..
 
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I'm not really sure how to do that, but I know about 97% of my physical memory is used.
I'm assuming to do that, would I go on Recourse Monitor? If so, the top 5 things, for Private Physical Memory in use are as follows:
1. svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) and it uses about 88,000kb
2. Skype.exe 33,000kb
3. Chrome.exe 26,000kb
4.another Chrome.exe 12,000kb
5. Raptr.exe 10,452kb
Keep in mind, these of course fluctuate, the lowest I've seen the 1st one go is like 60,000.
 
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So, I looked at the RAMDISK program and it was using all of my RAM, so I selected stop, my computer speeded up significantly but it still is running a bit slow. I'm going to un-install it and hopefully it will work. Just a shame though because I paid $10 for it.
 
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And just to let you know, the graphics card is slow, not the computer
 
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Uhhh no? I un-installed the RAMDISK program and now my graphics cards runs games such as War Thunder on max settings.
 
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I am so sorry I thought you upgraded TO A 7750. Your gpu is blazing fast. What power supply are you using? Your gpu might not be getting enough juice.
 
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I am so sorry I thought you upgraded TO A 7750. Your gpu is blazing fast. What power supply are you using? Your gpu might not be getting enough juice.
 
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Oh it's fine now, no problem. Thanks for the help though. Not exactly sure about the Power Supply but I think it's fine now.
 
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Alright. I would really recommend looking inside the computer, and just look at the side of the thing with the wires sticking out Just tell me the brand and the wattage. If this is too slow, you risk frying the components, if you put it under too much of load and have a voltage regulator fail.
 
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