I upgraded my entire computer but im not getting better performance???

[boomie77]

So I recently just graduated from highschool and I got a lot of gift money, and I decided to put half of it into upgrading my computer.

Graphics- EVGA Nvidia 1070 8GB
Processor- i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad Core 4.2 GHz
Ram- 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengence DDR4 3000 hz
Motherboard- ASUS Maximus VIII HERO

These are my new specs. Previously my specs where the same 1070 but instead I had an Asus Crossblade Ranger AMD mother board, 16gb of DDR3 ram (2400hz) , and a AMD A10-7850K cpu. But im not seeing any increase in fps when I play video games, and comparing my fps to benchmark videos, my fps comes no where near to where my fps should be!

Any help/suggestions?

 

[DSzymborski]

Did you do a full, clean install? Are the drivers up-to-date? Is the monitor plugged into the GPU? Did you run a straight benchmark program -- comparing to random benchmark videos on the web is a really poor way to do this?

 

[rgd1101]

and what games? what resolution?

 

[Martell1977]

You will want to do a fresh Windows install if you didn't. Changing motherboards is problematic, but switching from AMD to Intel will give all kinds of problems. If you didn't do a fresh install, I'm surprised it even started up.

If you did a clean install, did you install all the motherboard drivers from the ASUS website?

 

[ARICH5]

do a full windows 10 reinstall and update

 

[thx1138v2]

I'm assuming you did a fresh OS install since you changed from AMD to Intel.

You've got the same graphics card, both processors are quad core, and you have the same amount of RAM. You might not see any improvement if the games you're playing don't take advantage of the multi-threading in the Intel processor.

The RAM speed improvement might make a slight difference but I'm not sure how noticeable it would be depending on the games you are judging.

What you should be comparing is benchmarks of your old and new systems, not internet articles.