New gaming P.C. Slow despite Hardware

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Hi, I recently decided to build a new gaming desktop as my old gaming laptop was starting to not cut it anymore. Unfortunately despite the hardware being far superior to my old laptop, The new seemingly only has a tenth of the power (only 6 FPS on games my old laptop ran at 60 FPS). I have updated all my drivers and software, triple checked all cable connections inside and outside the case (no visible damage to components and device manager picks up everything fine). Used various optimization programs ( CCleaner, Razer cortex, etc.), but i just cant find the cause. If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated.
My specs are:
CPU: Intel I7 4790k quad core
Ram: Corsair vengeance 16GB DDR3 (8X2)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 970 4GB
Cooler: Thermaltake liquid cooler 3.0 extreme
PSU: Thermal take 650 watt Bronze edition
Storage: Western Digital Black 2TB HDD 7200 rpm
Motherboard: MSI Z97A Gaming 6
OS: windows 7 home premium
I only have skype, steam, A few optomization programs, Kaspersky antivirus, and the various drivers for the hardware.
Thanks
 
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Have you run the Windows Experience index? That should let you know immediately if one subsystem (or more) is performing badly. That system should be a beast, although for a gaming computer leaving out an SSD is a curious choice.

EDIT: Under this same section (Performance Information and Tools) are Advanced Tools. One such allows you to see detailed system information that will allow you to make sure your processor, RAM, etc. are being correctly identified.
 
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My index gives 5.4 to processor calculations, 7.3 ram , 6.9 Desktop performance, 7.3 3D graphics, 5.9 disk data transfer rate. And I did actually get 250gb ssd Samsung. But I didn't realize I needed a plate to install it on. it will be installed at a later date.
 
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Ccleaner, Razer cortex along with nvidia GeForce experience, Msi gaming app, Msi afterburner, despite these not all being actual optimization programs I just bunched them together. And the only ones that weren't installed with my drivers were CCleaner and Razer cortex
 
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Found an Intel processor driver update on intels wensite and installed it. New rating for processor is now 4.4. i have no idea why it decrease and I am kind of worried about it. My desktop graphics improved to 7.4 though.
 
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Hey the Intel update made my system lag free. thanks for all the help and quick responses.

EDIT: unfortunately this did not fix as easily as I had thought. The way I was benchmarking my computers performance was through games. The first few games I tried were games from 2000 such as total annihilation and tzar burden of the crown. As these lagged before and then drastically improved performance I continued on to minecraft. This was running smooth at 100 FPS an improvement from the previous 5 FPS. I continued in to team fortress 2 then portal 2 and finally skyrim. Because of the performance I was getting I figured I was home free. But no such luck. Unfortunately when trying to run more recent indie games such as planetary annihilation and rust. My performance was still lacking. Which by a hardware standpoint it shouldn't be. So I'm unsure of what to do at this point.
 
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Did a restart and now my computers running at what it should be for whatever reason. ( I do turn my computer off after using it so the RAM being overloaded was not the problem.) I don't know why or how but works. I do think the problem was driver related. As the pc recognized the hardware but wasn't properly using it. Thanks for all the help.
 
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werepossum

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Odd. Might have been as simple as taking several updates to load the correct motherboard driver/Windows update to support your processor. Usually though one doesn't see such things spontaneously fixing themselves , not unless you are getting notices of updates being applied.
 
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I had it pegged for processor update that had been the one improving performance. But i realize now that it was most likely a few of the 6 updates along side it as well. Sorry for Misleading anyone.
 
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