Whats up with my Frame rate?

TheRevo

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right so i got this pc i built, its been running everything fine e.g. sleeping dogs, planetside 2 etc... i have always had problems with gotham city impostors for whatever reason, always just scraping 30 fps.

earlier i was on Impostors and the frames were even worse, some moments i had 1 fps... i just thought it was the gaming being poorly optimized but then i went on sleeping dogs and usually i maintain smooth frame rate over 30fps however this time, i had many fps drops that took the fps down to under 7fps and it wasn't going away.

Also, both of these games used to load with no problems but now when i am loading them they drop to 1 fps and take for ever to load.
 

TheRevo

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if it helps the specs are

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£109.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£65.10 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£260.99 @ Dabs)
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£57.88 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£70.30 @ CCL Computers)

i have had this pc for less than two weeks