Game lags every 2 seconds with new gpu.

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Yea so I recently upgraded my gpu and now when I play games it will lag/freeze every 2 seconds then becomes normal for another 2 seconds.
I upgraded from a 7570 to a r9 380, deleted the old drivers and installed the newest ones from amd's site.

Specs;
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: AMD R9 380 4GB
RAM: 12 GB of hp desktop ram
PSU; EVGA GS650 Gold Power Supply

I will be very grateful towards any help!
 
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I don't even know what the model number of that RAM is, but just the fact that it has the HP brand on it makes me suspect it. And how did you get to 12GB of memory? Normally, memory is 4GB, 8GB 16GB, or 32GB.

Get the model number of the memory please.
I don't even know what the model number of that RAM is, but just the fact that it has the HP brand on it makes me suspect it. And how did you get to 12GB of memory? Normally, memory is 4GB, 8GB 16GB, or 32GB.

Get the model number of the memory please.
 
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Well it's a stick of 8gb and a stick of 4 gb I will get the model num for both in a bit, btw an dram led in the motherboard sometimes flashes red if that means anything.
 

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648w on 12 and 100w on 3.3 and 5

and amd recommends a minimum of as 700w psu but I just got this so I really don't want to get a new one and 50w shouldn't make a huge difference right
 

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so seems it is not the psu,test your gpu with a benchmark software like heaven.
Maybe,it is the game.Test with other games.
For hardware,you can only find the problem when you have spare parts,ı mean extra hardware to change.
If you still have the old gpu,test with it.
 

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Okay I did test with other gpus before everything was fine and a while agl the lag went away but not the problems they got worse. Randomly while I was playing the game my pc just crashed and upon restart its a black screen with a solid hdd light and it doesnt respond too the power button. I truly am scared lol.
 

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Ok so I unplugged some wires and replugged them and now at startup it says "Overclocking failed! Please enter setup to reconfigure your system." Funny part is nothing has been overclocked, I have tried unparking cores for cpu. Also on boot up fans are running at or close to top speed.
 

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My mobo is a asus m5a97 and I just upgraded power supplies today, but though it seemed to have done the trick it crashed with a black screen the first time I launched a game after the psu upgrade. But after that untill now there are no problems but I suspect that there are a few ticking time bombs hiding away, put in english I know theres some problems left hidden in the pc.But anyway previous psu I was having the problems with is a evga gs650 and the new current one is I think a Corsair cx 850 but I'm not sure.
 
That motherboard has 3 LED's on it.

The first one is just past the back end of the two PCIe slots on the right side of the slots.
It means the system is on, in sleep mode or soft-off mode.

The second one is along side the back edge behind the memory sticks. If a memory error is detected during the boot process, it will light the LED.

The third one is along the right most edge where all the pins are. It lights when the BIOS is being updated via the Flashback button.

Can you tell me which LED's are on after you see the windows logo?

Now to the power supplies. The Corsair CX series of power supplies were lowered to Tier 4 on the Toms power supply listing last week. They had previously been on Tier 3. We recommend that people only buy power supplies that are Tier 1 or Tier 2. What the Tiers are is a categorization of the quality of the parts and manufacturing processes used to make each brand and model of power supply on the list, as well as the wire gauges, safety protection features or lack of them, and so on. At Tier 4, we do not recommend the use of those power supplies in any gaming system.

In the case of the Corsair CX line, as a new unit, they test out quite nicely. But at about the 1 year point, we start seeing way too many units that are randomly powering down the system for very short periods of time, but when you are doing something, and suddenly the computer reboots, and does this over and over, you are not a happy camper. And so after a discussion about those units, the keepers of the list lowered them to the next level down. The people that know, seem to feel that they used cheap parts in those, and that the capacitors begin to fail between year one and two.

So you may well not have any problems with it now. But within a year or two, you probably will.

And I am already questioning if part of the problem here might not be the power supply at this point. It could be providing "surging power" instead of stable power. I cannot prove that, and without some rather expensive tools, nobody could right now. So I'll try to help you find anything else that might be causing this, but we might well end up looking at that power supply, and saying, "Its YOU!"
 

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Sorry for late reply but the leds that are flashing are indeed by the ram sticks and beside a memok button and gosh thats unsettling knowing that a 120 psu is gonna die within a year. I am pretty tight on money right now but I'm sure I will be able to buy a new psu before a year.
 

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Hey, well my temps are pretty normal for under demanding gaming ( highest settings while maintaining 60 fps) I will get maybe 52-55c on my gpu and cpu gets 44-50c but my cpu fan screams like it's on fire so I might get a cpu water cooler soon.
 

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Also if I may add it just clicked my pc will only crash if it's in-game and I leave my pc to do something. So if I pause a game to then go use the washroom when I'm back my pc usually has crashed but if I let it idle without a game running then it will just go in to a screen saver and wake back up as soon as I touch my mouse.
 

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Ok I know this thread is over a year old but I thought it would be worth mentioning in case anyone else on the inter-webs has a similar problem. So I'm pretty sure what happen is when my pc was new and I was going through the bios. I overclocked the crappy hp ram and that is what was supposedly causing the crashes. After remembering what I did I reset the clock to default and boom, problem fixed. Yeah I know I'm an idiot lol.

An update on the cx850 is it's actually proved really reliable! I mostly leave my pc on or in sleep mode (rarely off) and game heavily. 1 year and two months later it's still going strong, knock on wood though because it's still a cx850.

I will also be giving the solution to mark because he was the closest to the issue and was quite helpful, thanks mark!