Performance worse after installing new motherboard

[greyfox882002]

Hi all

I just recently installed a new motherboard into my machine and gaming/general performance is noticeably worse.

Far Cry 4 was running at 57+ fps at all max settings, now it is noticeably choppy and will frequently dip below 50 fps when there is a lot of action on screen.

My old motherboard was a Gigabyte G/A-B75M-D3V

The new motherboard is a AsRock Z75 Pro3

all my other components stayed the same

CPU: 3570 K
GPU: GTX 970
RAM: 8 GB DDR 3 1600
2 Hard Drives: 120 GB SSD, 1TB HD
PSU: 750 W Rosewill Hive

I cannot for the life of me figure out why this would be happening.

I've tried to:

• 
  Update the bios in the motherboard
  Disable the onboard graphics card
  Turn off my antivirus
  Install all the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer
  Re-installed windows 7 twice

Ideally I would just put my old motherboard back in and see if that fixes everything, but unfortunately I used it to build another computer for my mother during the holiday break.

Any advice or suggestions that you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ihog]

Were you overclocking at all before? All your settings are the same as before I presume? Did you change graphics card drivers?

 

[spooky2th]

Have you set your computer power settings up? I'd set them up all the way. This makes sure that all 4 cores and all 8 threads are firing. When I got my GTX 970, the first game I played was FarCry3 and the comp would start to flake out and then freeze a few mins into the game, unless I set the game video options down considerably. Then a light bulb went off in my head. I checked and my power settings were set at balanced. This "parked" two cores and more. After setting the power settings all the way up, I can now play with the game's video settings at Ultra=all the way up for hours now, with no problems.

 

[greyfox882002]

Were you overclocking at all before? All your settings are the same as before I presume? Did you change graphics card drivers?

Yup the overclock on the GPU is identical, the CPU and RAM wasn't overclocked to begin with.

 

[greyfox882002]

Have you set your computer power settings up? I'd set them up all the way. This makes sure that all 4 cores and all 8 threads are firing. When I got my GTX 970, the first game I played was FarCry3 and the comp would start to flake out and then freeze a few mins into the game, unless I set the game video options down considerably. Then a light bulb went off in my head. I checked and my power settings were set at balanced. This "parked" two cores and more. After setting the power settings all the way up, I can now play with the game's video settings at Ultra=all the way up for hours now, with no problems.

Is this an option in the motherboard BIOS, if so what would it be called?

I wasn't aware that desktops had any power saving options turned on by default, especially considering that this is supposedly a gaming motherboard.

 

[spooky2th]

In windows search, search "power settings." You should see the link to get there.

 

[ihog]

I wasn't aware that desktops had any power saving options turned on by default, especially considering that this is supposedly a gaming motherboard.

Windows automatically has power saving settings applied.