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I have recently updated a few bits and pieces being a newer GPU & CPU to my rig as well as an SSD. The motherboard and ram are a year old and the case, HD, and PSU are all a few years old.

Basically I'm noticing my FPS on BF4 mostly to be dropping to as low as 25-30fps in some situations - Now I'm sure this shouldn't be the case and that the 8350 shouldn't be bottlenecking the gpu that much if at all.

Is it possibly the ram or psu causing these issues? Normally it does keep a steady 70+ fps ( all stats on high not ultra AA off v sync off ) but it is dropping and notably lagging.

The mobo is slightly older so the drivers wouldn't work I had to update the bios myself - could this be an issue? Basically I'm not made of money and this was a real treat on the credit card as I wont be able to go out much the next couple of months so its frustrating me its not working correctly.

I have just switched over to windows 8 pro and I'm still leaning how to use it! (might switch back to 7). I haven't yet changed the power to high performance rather than balanced as I have read this could be an issue? is it ok to leave this on high performance all the time? I know the psu is only a 620 but I was under the impression this would be sufficient. I have also noticed when hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL it does state on performance sockets: 1 Cores: 4 logical processors: 8 now im no expect but surely this should say 8 cores?

Any help would be much appreciated this is getting to me!

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x "GHz Edition" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail

Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard

GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

Antec 900 Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black

Monitor benq 24 xl2411t

I'm at work at the moment not at my personal computer but the psu is a xhcrosshair 620 modular power pack i believe it could be almost two years old. I'm now having to debate selling the card and getting a cheaper card in order to upgrade psu, mobo or ram?!

Thanks again.
 
Wow. Guys really appreciate it. Could you please put this more in simple terms im fairly computer literate but jonot amazing. VRM ? I think ill sell the card and pick up a slightly cheaper one and buy a new board. Most likelyhttp://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-502-AS

I dont know the first think about over clocking apart from turbo key all help n is much appreciated and if you could explain how my board is letting me down slightly simplified I would be very thankful. Just a shame im skint!
 
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Also is my ram fine? Thanks again! I might see if anyone is selling a half decent mobo on here! Just seen on my cpu cooler artic 7 some of the pins looks anodized ? Seems odd!
 
Thanks for the help guys I picked up a :

Asus M5A99X PRO R2.0 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard &

Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler now looking at ram and my horrific credit card statement!

Thanks again
 
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