Game Graphics/Videos becoming choppy/Overheating?

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Alright so recently I've been having an issue with my PC.

I tried to play Smite today, and while playing, normally my graphics card handled it just fine in the past but it became super laggy/choppy visually and I was completely unable to play. I've updated my graphics drivers and all other drivers on the PC because I recently reformatted it and everything, hoping to fix the PCs performance, which it has not.

I've ran virus scans, cleaned the PC of any dust, inside and out. I've ran tests on both my GPU and my RAM and other things. I've defragged my hard drive numerous amounts of times.

This is my PC Build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wqkp99

As you can see my PC should not be having any trouble running a game like Smite.. it never did in the past on the highest settings, I had it on the lowest and it still became choppy.

Along with this, when I watch youtube videos its been very choppy as well, the FPS clearly drops and causes frustration, I can not have more than 3-4 open windows without the video becoming this way. I have 8gb of RAM so that shouldn't be an issue at all..



Any ideas on what to do?

Could it be faulty even though its passing all the tests?
What could be wrong with my GPU or PC itself?
 
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Yes, a 7850... In GPU-Z on the bottom, it should say "AMD HD7800 Series" or something like that. Not Intel.

Check that you're monitor is plugged into the discrete GPU port.
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92.0 idle, and.. 102-4 when watching youtube on 1080p with fullscreen.

Not sure if its GPU or RAM because my computer itself gets caught up at times when I open more than just a few programs.

But like memory tests have been coming up fine.

Although my 'memory size' in this little info is '0 MB' shouldn't it be 2000 or something since I have 2gb of built in ram on the GPU?

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Temperature for the CPU is averaging 76-83 and gets up to 95-100 when load/running youtube video on full screen 1080p

This isn't good is it..

I might need a new CPU/Motherboard and a better cooling case I guess? I just don't understand why they're so hot because the fans are running fine on my case and all internal fans are running just fine as well.. :/

I was going to buy 16gb more of RAM thinking it may have been faulty RAM, but I'm guessing that wouldn't help at all?

Could it be a faulty sensor? Could it be the heatsink fan? I recently took it off the CPU and cleaned out all the dust I could but some dust was still stuck in between the metal 'spokes' of it.
 
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Considering that this is an on board GPU that is overheating my **guess** is that either the PSU or motherboard are faulty.

If I had to pick one, I'd go for a new motherboard.
My next option would be to plug in a discrete GPU and disable the onboard and test.
If I still had a problem I'd consider a new PSU for testing as well.

I can't say what the issue definitely is, I can only help you troubleshoot it.
 
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It isn't an on board GPU, its a discrete GPU I thought? My motherboard does have its own on-board one but I use the separate GPU, my original post has my PC build if you're wondering.

 
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I see, yeah I have one plugged into the motherboard and one plugged into the GPU, both show the PC fine, etc. so I figured that was fine..

I'm using Dual Monitors, sorry to mention so late into this.

The GPU temps are WAY lower.. might not be my GPU at all, wonder what it could be then.. faulty/starting to become faulty RAM maybe?

Should I just have both plugged into the GPU and not the on board GPU? could this be causing the issue?

Heres my GPU:

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Wow.. I feel like an idiot. I just played Smite after putting both monitors in the GPU instead of one in the motherboard and it ran perfectly fine on very high settings.

Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. Videos seem to run perfectly fine now as well.
 
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Thanks again! So glad I didn't have to go out and buy a new GPU/CPU or MOBO!

I'm surprised it caused such issues having it setup the way I did, I must've forgetten that I didn't have it set up(One in motherboard one in GPU) that way when I recently moved my PC to another room. I always thought it was fine, but I guess not!

 
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