i3 540 to i7 870 slow?

[gamingzone]

Ok so I upgraded from i3 540 to i7 870. Cleared CMOS and good to go.

But I saw performance decrease in windows. Like booting time, responses, etc.

Does the i7 870 perform slow than i3 540?

PS: I mainly use my pc for gaming so I'd like to know if I should use my i3 or i7

 

[WildCard999]

Try updating the BIOS, if it still continues to be slow then you may want to consider a clean install of Windows.

Gaming performance should be a bit better with that i7.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-870-vs-Intel-Core-i3-540/m961vsm2936

 

[geofelt]

What you bought was 4 more threads, but no significant increase in single thread performance.
Still, the i7-870 is marginally faster in single thread performance, so the difference in performance cause is likely elsewhere.

Did you have an overclock on the i3-540?
If you did, you lost it with the clear cmos.

I would be inclined to continue with the i7-870 unless your gaming is negatively impacted.

What are the rest of your specs?

 

[gamingzone]

What you bought was 4 more threads, but no significant increase in single thread performance.
Still, the i7-870 is marginally faster in single thread performance, so the difference in performance cause is likely elsewhere.

Did you have an overclock on the i3-540?
If you did, you lost it with the clear cmos.

I would be inclined to continue with the i7-870 unless your gaming is negatively impacted.

What are the rest of your specs?

There was no overclock, my motherboard doesn't allow overclocking and for the bios update, they give no bios updates.
Motherboard - Zebronics z55
Ram - 8gb ddr3
GPU - Sapphire R7 240 V2 1G GDDR5
HDD - Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm
And yes it's a clean install windows.

Try updating the BIOS, if it still continues to be slow then you may want to consider a clean install of Windows.

Gaming performance should be a bit better with that i7.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-870-vs-Intel-Core-i3-540/m961vsm2936

That's what the benchmarks say but in fact it's not the truth. It's a clean install windows. Recently I saw a guy having similar issue, the thread was a few years old and they were discussing about the architecture of both the processors which were making the performance change. Now I really don't know if it affects that.

But according to benchmarks, it should improve the performance.

And about the turbo of i7, it never jumps to 3.6ghz, stays at 2.93ghz, dunno why.

 

[WildCard999]

You have the CPU power connected by the PSU? (white connection in the upper-left side of board). Also make sure your cooler is connected properly, if overheating then the CPU is going to perform poorly to prevent damage.

 

[gamingzone]

You have the CPU power connected by the PSU? (white connection in the upper-left side of board). Also make sure your cooler is connected properly, if overheating then the CPU is going to perform poorly to prevent damage.

yes everything is connected, and I even tried to reconnect. The CPU temp. doesn't go above 70c while gaming, and while idling it is usually around 40c. It's just strange that the boost doesn't work of the i7

 

[WildCard999]

You have the CPU power connected by the PSU? (white connection in the upper-left side of board). Also make sure your cooler is connected properly, if overheating then the CPU is going to perform poorly to prevent damage.

yes everything is connected, and I even tried to reconnect. The CPU temp. doesn't go above 70c while gaming, and while idling it is usually around 40c. It's just strange that the boost doesn't work of the i7

It is odd but one other thing that strikes me as odd is the motherboard, the fact that they don't have a detailed CPU support list and absolutely no drivers or BIOS is quite strange.

 

[geofelt]

Turbo boost applies when other threads are lightly loaded.

 

[gamingzone]

So no solution of this?

 

[geofelt]

So no solution of this?

A ssd for the C drive will make everything faster.
It will do nothing for the cpu usage.
Good thing is that a ssd can be moved forward to whenever you do a new build.
120gb can work, but it will get filled up quickly.
I recommend a Samsung evo of 240gb.
If 240gb will hold the used parts of your C drive, you can use the free Samsung ssd migration app to move windows and apps.
You can remove large data folders from the calculation of capacity needed.

 

[gamingzone]

but that's just a work around we still need to find the root cause of it

 

[WildCard999]

Try a CPU heavy game and see what you get for usage & performance, monitor with HWmonitor.

 

[gamingzone]

Try a CPU heavy game and see what you get for usage & performance, monitor with HWmonitor.

Don't have a heavy game, but tried csgo and these are the stats.

 

[WildCard999]

Yea you won't see high usage on CSGO, if you have Steam I'd download a MMO such as Bless Online (free) as it will use your CPU much more and you should see a higher usage/boost clock.

 

[gamingzone]

Yea you won't see high usage on CSGO, if you have Steam I'd download a MMO such as Bless Online (free) as it will use your CPU much more and you should see a higher usage/boost clock.

Played far cry 5 which is CPU Intensive. Here are the results

 

[WildCard999]

Are your FPS better with the i7 or the i3?

 

[gamingzone]

seen no change in fps

 

[gamingzone]

Answering my own question.

Disabling HyperThreading fixed my problem!

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