Slow Performance and High Temperatures on AMD CPU

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I bought a PC like 6 months ago and until now there haven't been any problems, however, a few days ago i was playing a lot of games, one day i was editing a video on sony vegas and after that I joined my friends to play the beta of Archeage, I could play before running at solid 30 FPS and there was no problem, but after editing that video my FPS went down to 10. I restared my PC because i tought it was just some lag and the problem was still there, i checked my CPU temps and they were at 60ºC, I installed some fans to my PC but the temperatures stood the same, the problem is that after 5 to 10 minutes after my PC is turned on, it starts to "lag", all animations and loadings are very slow, i tried changing some setting on the PC power plan to change the minimum of my PC cpu usage from 100% to 5% and the maximum to 90%, it made a little difference, lowering the temps to 40ºC when doing nothing, when i watch a video its very laggy and videogames always run very slow, this has never happend before, the temperautres seem to be always between 50-60ºC and after a few minutes of the PC being turned on, the problem begins to start, also my CPU fan is very noisy.

EDIT: I noticed that i need to use some cooling paste on the processor, I will try to but it soon and see if the problem presists.

My CPU its an AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon HD Graphics
I have 4 gb of ram and i have Windows 7 Ultimate x64

 
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Andrei_316
I'd get the T4 its cheap. and thats really wierd 0_o sounds like your cpu is throttling, by decreasing the speed/vore of your cpu it managed to lower your temp :p Try running prime95 but while you do that check your temps at the same time.
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Your heatsink is probably causing the problems, make sure to clean your pc first top to bottom. If you want get a 212 or a Tx3/T4 and overclock your cpu for more preformance and get faster ram to get better FPS ;)
 
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I have applied the new thermal paste and I also adjusted a loose RAM card, temperatures however are the same as before, possibly even higher, about the performance, I started watching a few videos yesterday and after a few minutes the performance was fine, I began playing the last episode of the walking dead season 2 and it was fine, but today I wanted to play some Unturned and FPS dropped from 80 to 10 - 20, then my whole PC started to slow down.

 
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Arkrow

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It doesnt seem to be overclocked, my motherboard its an ASUS A55M-E so yeah, the problem feels very random because only a few times i could use it for a few hours without it getting slow.
 
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I would like to be sure before buying anything else, I'm kinda low on budget right now and maybe it can be cheaper to call a technician for now, also the only good and cheap heatsink i could find on my country was the Hyper T4, the NIC F3 and then bigger ones like the Hyper 612 but that is a mounstrosity.

Also i would like to add that recently i turned on my PC and immediately started to play something, my PC its usually slow after 10 minutes of doing something but the game was running fine for like 20-30 minutes and my FPS dropped immediately after minimizing the game, i was going to check my temps and FPS went down from 30-40 to 10-20, weird? Temperatures were only 53ºC.

EDIT: I did the same test again, this time i played something more graphical, MK9, the game ran like it normally would and after probably 15 minutes of playing, i exited and the performance of my PC was normal, temperature came to 44ºC, watched a video and temperature went up to 55ºC, slowing my PC again.
 
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I'd get the T4 its cheap. and thats really wierd 0_o sounds like your cpu is throttling, by decreasing the speed/vore of your cpu it managed to lower your temp :p Try running prime95 but while you do that check your temps at the same time.
 
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aldan

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think you may be on to something there.i agree.

 
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it looks like a temp problem to me.like andrei said,your cpu throttles down at high temps and this slows your computer down.you can buy a hyper 212 evo from coolermaster for $20-50 cdn.this really sounds like it comes down to cooling.if it was mine and all the other fans were working properly i would replace the cooler and see what happens.
 
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