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I obtained a score of 6231 with AMD Radeon R9 280X(1x) and Intel Core i5-4590 Processor on firestrike with only tomshardware and skype open...

Is my score low? What's going on? 🙁
 
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Then maybe 40C the best the stock cooler can do at idle. Could be small case, lack of sufficient air flow, poor cable management... any of those fit the bill?
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For a 280x? No, I wouldn't call it particularly low. It seems fairly normal. Firestrike is synthetic. Because of this, there can be some outliers that can make a score seem lower. Many people focus seriously on 3dmark, but it really should not be judged as a method for evaluating sheer performance. Use games like Metro: Last Light and Crysis 3 for that. I believe that is the most effective and least faulty method of benchmarking.

Refer to these: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3413812 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3970080

Notice how far apart those two results, using identical hardware was. The former was due to my CPU not boosting properly, as a result of Bios settings. Simple things like that, which will likely go unnoticed by most games, are sometimes detected by Firestrike, and as a result, can produce varying results, even by several hundred points. Be wary of all this.

 
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Yes, you should be getting this score :

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No, ot really isn't necessary. You could OC the card. Can you link the score? I want to see if your CPU is boosting properly. Could you post some Print Screens from your Bios of that is possible? Honestly, I think our score is fine. There are too many variables, and with synthetic benchmarks, anything could happen. I would not worry about it.

 
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I did a restart and got these results.

http://postimg.org/image/lclhja8o9/
And temps are still in the 40Cs

Is that the score I should be getting? It's not overclocked.

Thank you all again for helping me :)
 
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That looks better.
As far as temps, do you have Windows set for balanced or performance in Ctl Pnl/Power Options? And do you have speed step enabled in BIOS?
At idle, my i5-4690K is 33-37C @ 4.2 GHz
 
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Then maybe 40C the best the stock cooler can do at idle. Could be small case, lack of sufficient air flow, poor cable management... any of those fit the bill?
 
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