This computer is about 6 years old, and I wanted to get a little more life out of it, so I decided to buy a new radeon r9 380 4gb from Sapphire. I was using an ancient card before, a geforce gts 250, and I couldn't play any new games on it at all. Anyways this new card dramatically slows down my computer. It's probably about 10 times slower than it was before performing any task (browsing, starting up etc.). It actually does play games better, but all games play at the same framerate. I get worse performance on older games that I played fine before, and better performance from games I couldn't play before. I've already uinstalled old drivers and installed new ones. Also it's not the power supply. I have a 600w and the card requires a 500. I've also tried 2 other cards with this computer (both of them better than the gts), and all give the same result. The only card that doesn't suck the performance is the original card. Also I have no integrated graphics card on the motherboard. Thanks for any suggestions!
Specs:
Windows 7
Intel i7 920 @ 2.67
12 gb ram
600 power supply
Xfx motherboard
Specs:
Windows 7
Intel i7 920 @ 2.67
12 gb ram
600 power supply
Xfx motherboard