Sluggish games after one BSOD and format

Jordach545

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Hey there guys, I am new to these forums and usually would never sign up for one, but this really has be stumped as I have been up for days with a problem.

I was trying to download a torrent one day when my computer blue screened. I didn't get a chance to see what the error was before I reset my computer. It has never happened since, but now whenever I play any Steam game, they lag. I went to play fallout 4 and at the title, the sound started crackling and lagged. I noticed that War Game Red Dragon lags as well, same with Rust now. I formatted the 1TB HDD and reinstalled windows 10 Pro, still the problem persisted when I got all of my drivers reinstalled. So, I thought it was the hard drive. I went and got a SSD and reinstalled windows 7 on it, went through the process of installing all drivers and the exact same problem persisted. I ran a diagnostic on my ram and it all looks fine, did a stress test and messed around with voltage tweaks but nothing worked. Temps are all fine, CPU isn't bottlenecking or anything and the GPU is not overheating. Afterburner and stress tests couldn't find anything wrong. I even went and bought a 750w PSU as I thought my 600w may have been on it's way out. I tested my other set of 8gig ram as well and the games still acted the same. I even installed the 55 gig texture pack to Fallout 4 to see if anything changed but it's all the same. I would be over the moon if anyone could help me.

Everything was running perfectly until that blue screen. Fallout 4 with texture packs even had a minimum requirement of a Nvidia1080
and it still handled it seamlessly at 60FPS in most cases.
SPECS:
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard
8g RX-480 STRIX GPU
1x ADATA SSD 240
12gigs Ripjaws 1333 DDR3
750w Corsair
FX-3850 Black Edition CPU Eight Core
All factory speeds, no overclock ever.
 

Jordach545

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Mar 26, 2017
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Oh good lord... After doing all of these things and spending about 16 hours on it, I realized that my SSD was plugged into SATA #2 instead of 1...... FFS, now everything is smooth again and I can kick myself in the nads....