My new PC sucks, any ideas why ?

[Tempra]

So, seeing as my PC literally got struck by lightning and died, i thought it was a good time to jump into the deep end and built a gaming PC myself.

 

But, for some reason it's running like crap, it works fine and all, but the in-game performance is severely lacking, like World of Tanks on minimum settings, Watch_Dogs on medium, that sorta performance. 

 

And i don't understand, cause it's more powerful in every way than the previous computer, and it performed better. (Can't remember all the specs, but it had a Nvidia 760 card, 16 gigs of ram, and i think 3,5 Ghz CPU)

 

So, any good suggestions as too how i can improve the performance ? 

 

The parts inside is as follows:

 

Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM Basic KIT, 540/520MB/s read/write, Samsung MEX controller  

 

Seagate® Desktop SSHD 1TB  

 

MSI 970 GAMING, Socket-AM3+

 

AMD FX-8350 Black Edition (Overclocked and running at 4,20 Ghz)

 

XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5

 

Corsair H100i Hydro CPU Cooler

 

Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Elite 1866Mhz 8GB x 2

 

Samsung DVD Writer, SH-224DB

 

Cooler Master V700, 700W PSU

 

Microsoft Windows 8.1 Dansk, 64-bit, OEM

[GeekySole9354]

Drivers? What CPU cooler are you using?

[NeatSquidYT]

The magical world of drivers...

 

P.S. That rig is amazing

[espurritado]

it may be a problem with the power suply, when i built my computer i didn't plug que power suply right to the mother board so it worked, but i was having some horrible performance.

try checking all the conections inside the computer

[Tempra]

Drivers? What CPU cooler are you using?

 

I did install all drivers, (the ones included in the packages respectively), but i must admit, i didn't think about them possibly being waaaay out of date. 

 

I'm using a Corsair H100i water cooler, and according to my bios, my CPU doesn't go above 30 degrees, so that's nice

The magical world of drivers...

 

P.S. That rig is amazing

 

Thanks Forgot too mention the case, a Nanoxia Deep Silence 1, it's gorgeous  

[NeatSquidYT]

I did install all drivers, (the ones included in the packages respectively), but i must admit, i didn't think about them possibly being waaaay out of date. 

 

I'm using a Corsair H100i water cooler, and according to my bios, my CPU doesn't go above 30 degrees, so that's nice

 

Thanks Forgot too mention the case, a Nanoxia Deep Silence 1, it's gorgeous

It seems to be a GPU problem then. Download Raptr (or whatever it's called) to see if your AMD drivers are up to date.

[Jamdude]

I did install all drivers, (the ones included in the packages respectively), but i must admit, i didn't think about them possibly being waaaay out of date. 

You'll need to get the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website, the ones included on disks with the product are usually out of date.

[iBeast_M0de]

Your build looks fine statswish but I could, as some others already pointed out, the drivers you should try updating you MoBo drivers and If you haved done it already use the latest GPU Drivers.

If you already did all of this and it still does not work properly you should try isolating some components they might not be working properly

[othertomperson]

And do use surge protection this time!

[Sauron]

I did install all drivers, (the ones included in the packages respectively)

 

WAT

 

go to amd's website and please download the drivers from there ^^

[Tempra]

And do use surge protection this time!

 

Yeah, when the thunderstorm closed in i unplugged the PC completely from the outlet, however, the surge jumped directly from the nearby radiator and into the PC, bypassing my little surge protection

 

The neighbor next door (same house) lost a TV, Apple TV box and a PS4.

[othertomperson]

Yeah, when the thunderstorm closed in i unplugged the PC completely from the outlet, however, the surge jumped directly from the nearby radiator and into the PC, bypassing my little surge protection

 

The neighbor next door (same house) lost a TV, Apple TV box and a PS4.

 

You should earth your house. That sounds dangerous.

[ManWithBeard1990]

You know, modern AMD processors try to stay within their TDP even if you OC them, unless you turn off APM. You may want to try that. It probably doesn't fully account for the performance deficit, but it's the only thing I could think of that wasn't already mentioned. Do update to the most recent drivers first though.

[Sadistic_Potato]

That is really a sweet computer. I think you installed the drivers that came with the CD in the box (...). Go to their website and download the latest drivers. Check again. Also, check Windows Event Viewer for any possible errors in Windows itself, and open Task Manager to see CPU usage, GPU usage, RAM usage, the lot. 

[Tempra]

That is really a sweet computer. I think you installed the drivers that came with the CD in the box (...). Go to their website and download the latest drivers. Check again. Also, check Windows Event Viewer for any possible errors in Windows itself, and open Task Manager to see CPU usage, GPU usage, RAM usage, the lot. 

 

Looking at the task manager, with Spotify running, i'm using 4 % CPU power, 12 % memory and 0-1 % storage.

I've installed the GPU driver from AMD's website, and that update alone made it go from minimum to high settings, so a clear improvement

[Tempra]

You should earth your house. That sounds dangerous.

It's supposed to be, we have HPFI relays by law in all buildings, but somehow, the current bypassed it. 

 

My girlfriend and i sat in the bedroom (computer room aswell) and despite nothing being plugged in, we hear a very loud fitzz sound, i immediately knew that was the end of it. 

Fortunately everything else survived, so screen speakers, woofer, everything else lived. 

[joshuamurphy]

You may have a virus. Maybe a clean reinstall of Windows may help?

[ningjia416]

Maybe try and reduce your overclock(or just simply put it back to stock). Since overclocking might reduce the stability of your system and it might not improve your game play. 

[Tempra]

Maybe try and reduce your overclock(or just simply put it back to stock). Since overclocking might reduce the stability of your system and it might not improve your game play. 

So i turned off OC Genie and set the DRAM frequency too auto, and boom, vast improvement ! 

 

I've also updated the GPU driver from AMD's wepsite and the network drivers.

 

I'm having a hard time however finding the remaining drivers,

 

Now it runs WoT on max settings, almost perfectly smooth.

[chilicheeseburger]

So i turned off OC Genie and set the DRAM frequency too auto, and boom, vast improvement !

I've also updated the GPU driver from AMD's wepsite and the network drivers.

I'm having a hard time however finding the remaining drivers,

Now it runs WoT on max settings, almost perfectly smooth.

You can find drivers on the motherboard manufacturer's website

[Toadboy]

Make sure all of your drivers are up to date it will make a huge difference if they are not

 

if you just used the disk's that came with it it is most deffintly out of date

[Tempra]

Right, so i've had a tech friend on Facebook and Teamviewer, and the drivers are all updated and running. 

However, the CPU and RAM is still underperforming, is it a BIOS thing maybe ?

I'm fresh outta ideas, included PC benchmark test. 

[Linux User]

Board? Also make sure you plugged the monitor into the graphic card and not the motherboard

[Tempra]

Board? Also make sure you plugged the monitor into the graphic card and not the motherboard

 

Well.... It seems i'm a massive idiot... 

There's a "slow boot" button on the motherboard, it was toggled on. 

 

Thanks everybody for your help and support, it was really appreciated, and i got fresh drivers all around