My new graphics card is acting weird?
The A10 APU's were designed to roughly pair with R7 graphics, as indicated by including R7 GPU's as their onboard chips. I ran one in CrossFire with an R7 dedicated card for a while, just to try it. You've got about two generations of gap between your processor and your graphics card, and the processor is a pretty mediocre processor even within it's own generation. Additionally, 80C is getting into thermal throttling range, but I'm not sure when that starts to happen on that chipset since I never ran one that hot. Your processor isn't just bottlenecking your GPU, it's straight up choking it out with a submission hold. I ran some benchmarks on my old A10 system with an R7 of some flavor, and the two were almost perfectly matched.
Get a stock AIO cooler from an FX 8150 if you can find a place to put it (it fits FM2 sockets) and use that to cool the APU. That should make for a more consistent experience. Then work on saving up to get either an AM3+ board with an FX CPU in it for cheap off eBay or Amazon, or just upgrade to a cheap AM4 board with a Ryzen 3 or 5. The AM4 option will require new RAM in addition to the CPU and mobo, so that's something to figure into the cost.
Also, Minecraft can be a pretty CPU intensive game depending on the world you are playing in and what mods are installed. I crashed an overclocked FX 8150 just from making a cobblestone generator. Good times.
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