cpu under performance is my power cable the problem?

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so recently i upgraded my cpu to an r5 1600 to do this i had to change my motherboard and ram seeing as i didnt have the right socket. I finished succesfully and the pc booted up fine.
but as i tried new games and ran a benchmark it turned out that my pc was under performing and some simple games kept crashing that didnt crash with my old cpu for example gmod b04 etc.
the only thing that really needed an upgrade at this point was my graphics card which is a 1050 ti
i remembered reading about how a cpu power cable that only had 4 pins that went into an 8 pin header could cause the mother board to "lock down" in a way or not function at its full potential.

is this the reason my pc is crashing simple games and games tht have never crashed before? and should i get a cpu power cable extension that has 8 pins or is it time for a psu upgrade or is there something wrong with another component?

as far as im concerned evrything else in my computer runs smoothly like my ram gpu and cooler

any advice or answers are greatly appriciated
 
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There are tons of old drivers and other os optimizations that are set up for your old chipset and processor, none of which work with new setup, so it can actually be worse than the old build sometimes. Additionally none of the new chipset/instruction sets for your new cpu are being used since it still has the old stuff mixed in. Also lots of driver conflicts mixed in.
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no i didnt wipe the drive and ill do the ram thing later today or tomorrow if i have time

and i ran another bench mark and it managed to get to the twelfth percentile at least
just for the record
 
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ill do it either way but could you explain how that would help? if you know?
 
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There are tons of old drivers and other os optimizations that are set up for your old chipset and processor, none of which work with new setup, so it can actually be worse than the old build sometimes. Additionally none of the new chipset/instruction sets for your new cpu are being used since it still has the old stuff mixed in. Also lots of driver conflicts mixed in.
 
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alright cool
thanks at the moment i dont have a drive to use so ill probably buy one tomorrow and give an update when its finished
 
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just for clarification, im formatting my drive yes?
and what happens after i format if this is the case, does the pc turn off or do i need to do something

ive been looking through google and youtube but cant get a clear answer so i thought about asking here
 
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thanks for the link and while this is probably annoying
i cant seem to format my hard drive due to the OS being on the drive so i looked up what i had to do and it pretty much led me to third party programs that would destroy the files and this is probably annoying for you but im honestly lost on what im doing now mainly because ive never done this before
 
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yeah i understand everything about the installation, its just that i cant format my hard drive because of the OS being on it
and the link doesnt say anything about this
 
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ok so if i boot from the usb stick and install windows i then have to delete all the partitions of the hard drive which deletes all the files on it and then install the new windows onto the hard drive
am i getting this right? i hope i am
 
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Ok well I’ve tried re installing windows and I’ve done everything as was shown but when I finish the installation process it says windows needs to restart to proceed and then it brings me back to the select a language and time zone screen and I have to start it all over again
 
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https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/13770310

thanks for the help, my cpu is performing much better now so i assume that must have been the problem, as for the gaming score, ill probably get a new gpu for my birthday seeing as its only a month away

thanks again for the help!
 
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its me again

i know i should probably put this on a new thread
but im still expieriencing crashes in games that havent crashed before

and i am 100% sure that everything is in properly and undamaged
 
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