God-Aweful FPS On an Higher End Gaming PC

[Excessive Nerve]

So I've had this issue for a while now and I've finally decided to seek help. I have what I think is a pretty highend decent gaming pc, but it seems any games I play I get garbage fps in it.

Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290
Mobo: Asus M5A97 R2.0
Psu: Ultra X4 750watt Modular Powersuplly
Gaming HDD: Western Digital 2TB Black
RAM: 16gb Kingston 1600mhz Hyperx Blu (4x4gb)

For example. On Far Cry 4 on the absolute lowest settings at 1920x1080 I'm getting 30fps.

Screenshot of ingame (what I'm looking at):
http://i.imgur.com/s5Te6DK.jpg

Screenshot of temps/cpu load/gpu load:

http://i.imgur.com/eGr3fOo.png


As you can see, my cpu usage is not very high, I've unparked all cores on my AMD cpu, I'm on the latest AMD drivers (14.11). I have no idea why I cant pull off 60fps in games, especially on the lowest settings. And the thing I don't understand is, if I crank up the settings to ultra, I don't drop any FPS at all. It seems like my GPU is limiting itself to around 30fps and not trying to go to 60fps+. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

 

[Cons29]

while i cannot see your screenshots (it is blocked here unfortunately), maybe it's just vsync? or maybe the game is locked at 30fps (yes some games are set at that unfortunately)
try other games

 

[Excessive Nerve]

while i cannot see your screenshots (it is blocked here unfortunately), maybe it's just vsync? or maybe the game is locked at 30fps (yes some games are set at that unfortunately)
try other games

I've went through both drivers and game to disable any time of vsync. I don't think thats the issue. Thanks anyways!

 

[viewtyjoe]

I'm going to go ahead and throw out that it could be the PSU. That particular unit is made by Andyson, who aren't exactly known for consistent build quality (they do/did Raidmax's PSUs, which aren't known for their performance) and that something just isn't getting the power it really needs consistently, causing degraded performance.

 

[Cons29]

sorry, i missed the "any game" part.
yeah, can also be the psu