Just upgraded my graphics card and having major issues - In need of advice

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Current spec: BIOSTAR Group A960D+ Motherboard, AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core Processor, 8GB RAM, Win 7 64 bit.
Went from NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card to an MSI Radeon R9 280x (This was a friend's old card that saw around 8-10 months of average use and had no issues with, but recently upgraded)
Also added a Corsair CX600M psu at the same time.

Prior to this i'd never really upgraded or messed with any hardware so it was a challenge and I was nervous, got a lot of help from a PC repair engineer work colleague, he practically did it for me tbh.
I had a little problems with drivers due to a Windows update issue, found it online and followed steps.
I then launched WoW (my current most played game) and saw little to no performance increase. I'm still currently running 5-30 fps on the lowest graphics settings. Which has to be a huge red flag. Prior to posting here I wanted to make sure I had cleanly re-installed the drivers and hadn't made any stupid mistakes with installation.
Hopefully I haven't, but I'm really frustrated trying to work out an issue when I'm pretty clueless as to what's gone wrong or what I need to fix.
I can happily supply any further information for you this evening if any of you brilliant people feel like performing a miracle and helping me out here.

Much appreciated.
 
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Looks like you've done the right thing with the drivers.
There's no need to follow my suggestions.
You could try updating the sound and motherboard drivers, though.
Most likely the problem is the CPU, it's not particularly fast and WOW can drag even top tier parts down when tings get busy.
Try increasing the game settings-max everything except anti aliasing-if there's a small or no reduction in frame rate it'll indicate the system is being bottlenecked by the CPU.
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I can confirm that I didn't derp and my monitor is plugged into my HDMI port of my graphics card.
I'll run the program suggested, what figures should I be expecting to see / look out for? I'll post information required

 
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I've saved the text file but when opening it..well, it seems very spammy for posting the entire lump here. 60C was the max CPU temp recorded and graphics card was lower than that even. This was after running a 5man instance on ultra with shadows low, v sync disabled. Generally have settings the way that people suggest having researched. The fps seems to spike quite heavily. I really see no fps difference between lowest and highest settings, very minimal.
 
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Most likely the problem is the CPU, WOW is very hard on that part, particularly with large raids and it's not vey good at using Quads effectively either which only compounds the problem.
BUT...
Try this:
Download and SAVE, do not install, the latest WHQL software directly from the AMD website.
Download DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and extract the Zip file to a new folder.
Uninstall the current driver suite and any Nvidia drivers/software.
Restart in Safe Mode.
Run DDU. If you have/had Nvidia drivers installed previously you'll need to run DDU twice, once for AMD, once for Nvidia, restarting into Safe Mode each time.
Restart normally.
Install the drivers you saved earlier, they'll be in Start>Documents>Downloads.
Restart normally.
 
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Thanks Coozie, I actually clean installed drivers and removed everything by following the guide on this site. So I'm pretty happy about it being installed fine and previous drivers being cleaned out. The guide on this site essentially gave a step by step of cleaning the registry and so on of the previous drivers and any left over programs. Do you think that I still need to do this?
 
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Looks like you've done the right thing with the drivers.
There's no need to follow my suggestions.
You could try updating the sound and motherboard drivers, though.
Most likely the problem is the CPU, it's not particularly fast and WOW can drag even top tier parts down when tings get busy.
Try increasing the game settings-max everything except anti aliasing-if there's a small or no reduction in frame rate it'll indicate the system is being bottlenecked by the CPU.
 
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