PC has low FPS in games after installing new Graphics card

[MrBojangles501]

Hello,

I recently installed a new graphics card. I went from a evga 660 to a evga 1060. After I installed the card, my games were getting big lag spikes and only running at 5-10fps.
I ran a program to take out all of the previous drivers and do a clean install of the drivers for the gpu. Had no effect. I tried previous drivers for the card just to see if the newest one was buggy, had no effect. I tried turning off Vsync for the card and it had no effect. I ran my virus scanner and multiple programs for adware to make sure it was a bitcoin miner. That didn't do anything so I did a reset of my entire system, deleting all of my programs and reinstalling windows 10 and it is still the same.

At this point I figured the gpu was defective so i sent it back and got a brand new one. I clean installed the new graphics card and it is still having lag spikes and low fps in games.

I'm figuring it may be my CPU at this point because I put my older graphics card in and it still ran with lower fps than it did before. I downloaded RealTemp GT to check my temps on my CPU. I have an Intel i7-3770k ivy Bridge, it says it is idling at around 70`C and when I put a game on it goes to around 105`C. It has the stock cooler on the CPU. Would this be why I am getting such poor fps out of my graphics card?

Specs:
Case-Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid tower
Motherboard-Asrock Z75 Pro3
CPU-Intel i7-3770k Ivy bridge quad core
Ram-16GB DDR3 1600
GPU-EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC

 

[nascar895]

Did you overclocked your CPU with the stock cooler? If not temps are seems to be pretty bad. Normally my i5 4590 is also with the stock cooler and it runs at 40-55 during idle and 70-85 during CPU intensive games like GTA V. But it never goes beyond 85. So i suggest you to clean the stock cooler, fan and reinstall the thermal paste and try again.

 

[Aaron_90]

what size is your PSU it could be affecting the power of the gpu if it doesn't meet the specifications of the gpu

Update or do what nascar895 said that could fix it.
--didn't even think about that

 

[MrBojangles501]

Turns out when I originally cleaned my CPU when installing my new graphics card, the stock CPU cooler didn't fully lock onto the CPU. So the CPU cooler wasn't fully touching the CPU and causing it to heat up

 

[nascar895]

Turns out when I originally cleaned my CPU when installing my new graphics card, the stock CPU cooler didn't fully lock onto the CPU. So the CPU cooler wasn't fully touching the CPU and causing it to heat up

Luckily you didn't burn your CPU though. Anyway glad to hear you fixed the problem.