installed new graphics card, worse performance in MMO games

howdoyouturnthison

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I switched out my Nvidia 560 ti with a Sapphire Radeon r9 280x Dual OC edition, and the performance on certain games like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, and Tera have gotten significantly worse. I used to run WoW at a solid 80fps (in the same towns and areas) and now I run it at 20-50 fps. My specs are:
GPU: r9 280x
CPU: amd fx 6300
PSU: 750W name brand (cant remember which one)
ram: 2x4gbs

I uninstalled all of the nvidia drivers with DDU and reinstalled my amd catalyst drivers. The card is snug and secure after I installed it. Am I bottlenecking with my cpu?

*side note* I can run high performance games like Crysis 2 on max ultra settings with a solid 60 fps.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
 

howdoyouturnthison

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I haven't tried reinstalling WoW but I did for Guild Wars 2. And I also ran Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and noticed that my benchmark score was half of what other people were getting on the same card with the same settings. I'm running these games at 1920x1080p btw.