New graphics card lagging

[robbert06]

Hello, I have replaced my old R7 360 graphics card to a brand new Gigabyte 1050TI WindForce OC 4G. Sadly my old graphics card works better than my new one. My specs are:

I5 4460
8 GB Ram
Toshiba dt01aca050 (500 GB HDD)
Gigabyte 1050TI WindForce OC 4G
ASROCK H81M-DG4
BeQuite 350W PSU

While I am playing BF4 or GTA 5 my pc starts with dropping frames almost every single second. When I take a look at my PC I see that my HDD light is on the whole time while it's dropping frames. So is it maybe the PSU, the HDD or the Graphics card? I hope that you guys can help me.

 

[dontlistentome]

Try running MSI Afterburner, or another program, so that you can see CPU and GPU usage and clockspeeds. You want to make sure the clockspeeds are as high as they are supposed to be.

As far as upgrading goes, you need to uninstall the AMD drivers, then install the Nvidia drivers. Did you do that? If you run a benchmark, like 3dmark, do you get a score that's about where it should be or is performance bad there too? Did you raise the settings in the games?

Hard drive access while gaming usually is a sign of the pagefile being used a lot. This happens when you don't have enough memory for the game, or you don't have enough for the settings you are using, or you are running other programs at the same time you're gaming. You have 8gb, that's not so low that you should be seeing constant hard drive activity.