CPU not benching at reference speeds on CPUZ

[Shane_8]

Just bought a I7 6700k ran the bench tests and it is only benching at 1994 on single thread. (reference is 2084) On the Multi thread bench it reaches 2521. (reference is 8767)
Specs
MOBO: Asus Z170M-Plus (bios is updated)
CPU: I7 6700k
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 280 (3gb)
RAM: 8gb
PSU: Thermal lake TR2 600 watt (I am assuming this is the issue?)

 

[PassMark]

What this an upgrade from a older CPU?

Check the "Core count" from Microsoft's msconfig utility (under the advanced tab).
Also check the temperatures, people often fail to correctly attach the CPU heatsink & you get thermal throttling.

I doubt the PSU is responsible for low benchmark scores.

 

[Shane_8]

I have a ZAHAL after market Heatsink applied and the CPU doesn't seem to run hot. I will see what the temp of the CPU is running though.

 

[Shane_8]

My CPU is running at 35-40 just with a few windows up. Is there any other tests I could do? And I couldn't find the core count is msconfig. I am running windows 10 if that means anything. Also I ran the CPUZ stress test and the temperature of the CPU jumped up to the 50s range rather quickly.

 

[lodders]

Run Hyper Pi - it is a simple stress test, but you can see the performance of each core seperately.
My PC will calculate Pi to 1 million places on each core similtaneously in just under 10 seconds

 

[Shane_8]

Run Hyper Pi - it is a simple stress test, but you can see the performance of each core seperately.
My PC will calculate Pi to 1 million places on each core similtaneously in just under 10 seconds

First image is a CPU cool down test. I dont know what this is telling me so if you could let me know it would be greatly appreciated.
http://imgur.com/a/aC7W4

 

[lodders]

According to Hyper Pi, all of your cores are running at full speed with no problems.
Both your CPU and mine have 4 cores. Yours has hyperthreading, which means it pretends to be an 8 core processor, but actually the processing of the 8 virtual cores are shared around your 4 real cores.
My processor worked out Pi to a million places 4 times in just under 10 seconds (once on each core).
Yours did it 8 times in 18 seconds (each core did it twice). Your CPU is about 10% faster than mine. I'm jealous.
There is obviously some problem with the other benchmark you ran, but unless you built your PC specifically for running benchmarks, don't worry about it.
I don't know what a CPU cool down test is, but one thing you should check is your CPU temperatures while running Hyper Pi.
Use motherboard monitor or similar. CPU core temperature of 70°C or lower is fine. More than this, maybe you should check your CPU cooler.....