High cpu usage, low fps

Letten

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Dec 17, 2014
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Hi, I had this problem for a while and just recently discovered it, my CPU struggles to run anything, recently almost all of my games crashes, freezes, everything but run normally.

Arma 3 crashes,
Mirror's edge Catalyst freezes for ~10 secs every ~1-2 mins
Low performance in CPU consuming games,
Amd Overdrive benchmark got from 11k to 8k

but then I ran battlefield 3, (I was without internet all this time I tought somehow that could affect it) I got no more than 15fps at minimum, 20 maximum, I know that's hell of a bottleneck going on, but, what is holding my CPU back?, I ran alot of games before, battlefield 3 ran 60fps 1080p ultra/high no problem, so did bf4, I even benchmarked it. I could try and reinstall windows, any tips before its time?.

PD: Gotta sleep, I probably won't reply in the next few hours, thanks
 

Deniedstingray

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That CPU isnt the strongest, For comparison sake i checked how good your cpu is compared to mine and mine is 85% better than yours, i have trouble on catalyst with my CPU from time to time so i don't think you will be able to run catalyst too well. Did it run before?