BF3 Massive lag

Saucemistake

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My brother recently installed bf3, but he is unable to play it due to massive lag, it seems to only be affecting bf3 since games like CS:GO and League of Legends is working fine.
It's not only multiplayer it also affects the single player mode
Specs:
GPU r9 290
RAM 16gb
SSD harddrive (didnt tell me how many gbs nor the brand)
AMD FX (tm)-9370 4.40ghz (x8)
Motherboard asus m5 a97 r2.0


 

Saucemistake

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lel, he joined another server and that seemed to fix it, that doesn't explain single player though. Apart from you solution of course
 

bignastyid

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Im surprised the board hasn't caught fire. The VRMs on that motherboard were not meant to handle a 220w cpu. The CPU is probably throttling down when put under a load. Run something like prime95 or furmark while you monitor the cpu freq in cpuz.
 

Saucemistake

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Whoops didn't mean to put this as the solution, do you know of a motherboard that would be compatible with the cpu vice versa