Question Everything is wrong

[jager256]

Hi all,

I built a PC for the first time in 2013. It was amazing, and life was good. From power on to surfing the web in under 2 min. All games and applications ran great. As soon as windows 10 installed, performance tanked, and kept dropping. I tried to re-build. New processor, graphics card, and hard drive. All only gave a slight boost.

I found this tool on another forum:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17811506

Everything says the hardware should be kicking ass, not dragging it. How do I get everything to work together? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

 

[CountMike]

Hi all,

I built a PC for the first time in 2013. It was amazing, and life was good. From power on to surfing the web in under 2 min. All games and applications ran great. As soon as windows 10 installed, performance tanked, and kept dropping. I tried to re-build. New processor, graphics card, and hard drive. All only gave a slight boost.

I found this tool on another forum:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17811506

Everything says the hardware should be kicking ass, not dragging it. How do I get everything to work together? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

Results should be much better, are you sure all drivers are up to date ???

 

[jager256]

Results should be much better, are you sure all drivers are up to date ???

Hi Mike,

Yes, I have checked the drivers in the device manager. Everything is up to date. Also, I have 1.71 terabytes free on my C drive.

 

[CountMike]

Maybe you should start by resetting CMOS. While doing benchmark, see if you can follow loads thru Task manager and/or HW Info, CPU should hit it's turbo speeds and have load close to 100%.

 

[bignastyid]

Check your CPU temp. It's being throttled to .45Ghz. It's either thermal or some messed up bios settings.

 

[jager256]

I replaced the BIOS battery with a fresh one, and things improved greatly. Still not good, but coming from where I was, it's a big improvement.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17902887

I had also found my BIOS had an update.
During the benchmark test, my CPU never went above 21%.

Any ideas on how to get the CPU going?

 

[jager256]

Check your CPU temp. It's being throttled to .45Ghz. It's either thermal or some messed up bios settings.

Yikes! CPU is holding steady at 99-99.5 C. I have three chassis fans, CPU fan, and two fans on the graphics card. Do I need more fans?
The motherboard is going good at 35C, and the air coming out of the tower feels cool.

Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

Yikes! CPU is holding steady at 99-99.5 C. I have three chassis fans, CPU fan, and two fans on the graphics card. Do I need more fans?
The motherboard is going good at 35C, and the air coming out of the tower feels cool.

Thanks!

CPU temp at 99C and holding indicates an improperly mounted CPU cooler.
Something is loose or not connected.

 

[bignastyid]

What CPU cooler are you using?

 

[jager256]

Ah, that did it. The heat sink for the CPU didn't have a good connection. The thermal paste showed only a small portion was touching. I added more paste, and things are running much faster. I still have some work to do, but at least the computer can keep up. Thanks all!

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17924704

 

[USAFRet]

Ah, that did it. The heat sink for the CPU didn't have a good connection. The thermal paste showed only a small portion was touching. I added more paste, and things are running much faster. I still have some work to do, but at least the computer can keep up. Thanks all!

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/17924704

Adding more paste is not the solution.
LESS paste and the cooler properly connected is the solution.

 

[Ethan Knickerbocker]

You may want to consider checking the thermal paste and upgrading/replacing the CPU heatsink. This worked on my Dell Precision T3400.