High CPU USage

[pandalove]

Hello,

I recently upgraded my computer from a 8800 GTS to a 260GTX, 480w power supply to a 650, 4gb of rams to 8 gb, and bought a WD Sata 3 64mb cache BLACK 640gb harddrive. I am running on Windows 7 64bit. However, after this upgrade I can not run as much Lineage 2 (a mmorpg game) clients as I could before. Before I could run up to 5 clients with no lags on the clients and CPU would not be stressed. But right now CPU is stressed to 100% at 3 clients.

Why is this so ? is it because of bad drivers?

Thank you for your help!

Comp specs:
Gigabyte GA-Q35M-S2
E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz
Kingston KVR800D2N6K2/4G 4GB 2X2GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL6 240PIN DIMM Memory x 2 = 8gb
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA3
Galaxy 260+ GTX 869mb
Dual Monitors
Onkyo SE-150 PCI Sound Card

 

[triplebug]

Everything seems positive.
Maybe the game auto adjust to high setting after you replace the card, try lower the gaming video setting?

Wait, you got dual monitors before the upgrade?

 

[pandalove]

yes i did have dual monitors before upgrade
I tried lowering the video game settings and it still lag at 3 clients

thanks for your reply!

 

[loneninja]

What cpu do you have? And were you running that install of Win 7 before the upgrades or is it a fresh install?

 

[pandalove]

o whoops forgot to add my cpu in
i have a e8400 @ 3.0ghz

both windows 7 were installed fresh not upgraded

 

[pandalove]

what i'm trying to say is my CPU is working alot harder now with a faster and better GPU then before when i have a older GPU

shouldn't this new GPU be taking load off the CPU instead of making it have 100% cpu usuage?

even with the older GPU i could run more at a lower setting then the newer GPU