Performance Issuses on Games? New CPU or GPU needed?

iDeccclan

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I have been running games perfectly fine until I got a new samsung monitor (I'll post the link at the bottom of the post) and suddenly the games I frequently played, all have really bad preformance. At first I thought it was becasue I hade three monitors plugged in and my PC couldn't handle it. I then when down to two and then one monitor plugged and and I am still getting terrible performance. I now have to play on a different monitor to my side and it is very awkard. I asked my friends and they suggested that I might need to change some kind of settings, but I wouldn't have thought that would be the problem and have not changed anything.

Could it be that I need a new CPU or GPU to use my new monitor or something else?

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 670
Monitor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-S24D300HS-inch-HDMI-Monitor/dp/B00JDBWP96/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446985303&sr=8-1&keywords=Samsung+24+inch+LED+HDMI

My other monitor is the same but instead 21.5 inches.

Thank You in advance.
 
Solution
Your GPU shouldn't have a problem running 3 monitors, as long as you're not combining them into a single resolution. i.e. 5760x1080

BUT....

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this...
Your GPU shouldn't have a problem running 3 monitors, as long as you're not combining them into a single resolution. i.e. 5760x1080

BUT....

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
 
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