[SOLVED] Intel I5 8400 is not performing as it should.

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boju
Sounds like boot partition is on the HDD and is giving you a confusing error message. Try reinstall Windows. Turbo should work then.
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Bob.B said:
OK that's better.
Looks like your bios is up to date.
Did you get the chipset driver?
How about the ME driver?
Just to get that stuff out of the way.
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How is that better? I now have less ram and the CPU still performs the same. Should I stick my 3rd stick back into the slot?
And yes all my drivers are up to date now
 
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boju said:
After doing the above, play your gta5 mod and run Coretemp. Check what that reports cpu speed at and temperature.

Turbo is an automatic feature so it's either turned off in Bios (shouldn't be at default settings) or it's getting too hot and cpu is preventing turbo to save itself.
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Not a throttling issue it seems. Something is just preventing the turbo clock to come on. It also good to say that with only 8 GB it peforms alot worse. Should I plug the 3rd stick back in?
 
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Bob.B said:
OK that's better.
Looks like your bios is up to date.
Did you get the chipset driver?
How about the ME driver?
Just to get that stuff out of the way.
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at this point I'd run Cinebench or 3DMark for benchmarking instead of UBM, their scores are so biased it's impossible to get a good representation. Even monitoring the core clocks can do done using tools like HWiNFO and such.

As to the performance, I'd try a fresh Windows installation to clear away the junk that's accumulated over the years, as Windows is notorious for it's resource management.
 
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Howardohyea said:
at this point I'd run Cinebench or 3DMark for benchmarking instead of UBM, their scores are so biased it's impossible to get a good representation. Even monitoring the core clocks can do done using tools like HWiNFO and such.

As to the performance, I'd try a fresh Windows installation to clear away the junk that's accumulated over the years, as Windows is notorious for it's resource management.
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Well all the other methods I've tried showed 2.5 clock so I'd say it's a big problem. Regarding fresh windows install, does that wipe my other drive too?
 
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Before installing Windows, why not check the Windows setting that controls turbo boost.

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Mats1313 said:
How do I go with that? When I disconnect my second drive (so it doesn't get wiped) my PC doesn't turn on even tho windows is only on the first drive.
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Doesn't power on or boot to Windows?

The latter would make sense if Windows was installed with multiple drives connected as it has a tendency of placing boot partition on other drives. For this reason, have the one drive connected when installing Windows.

There's a how to install Windows guide in Win10 section here.
 
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Crosslhs82x2 said:
Something is really strange with that.
Assuming your other drive is the seagate
That shouldn't keep the pc from turning on.
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Yeah the seagate one is my second drive.

boju said:
Doesn't power on or boot to Windows?

The latter would make sense if Windows was installed with multiple drives connected as it has a tendency of placing boot partition on other drives. For this reason, have the one drive connected when installing Windows.

There's a how to install Windows guide in Win10 section here.
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I think it wasn't connected when I downloaded windows 10 but I'm not too sure. It says "An operation system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operation system." That's with my SSD connected and HHD disconnected.
 
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