Garbage performance on a decent machine.. help! [Solved]

Ok... after two days of fiddling and trying all sorts of stuff. I have FINALLY solved the issue.
The problem was, that the Amd Catalyst drivers DO NOT support Windows 8 (Well waddayaknow..). I've upgraded to Windows 8.1 and my framerates skyrocketed to 60-70fps on very high in games. Even the temperatures do not exceed 54°c on the CPU and 56°c on the GPU.
(Inb4 im a noob for even using Win8 instead of Win8.1 in the first place) 

 

A big thank you to everyone in this thread for helping me out, as I would have been stuck trying the wrong things.

Well that would be news to me. ya cool. Problem solved.

glad you got it working better.

Another reason why I'm still holding onto Windows 7. Glad you got everything working properly.