Motherboard Upgrade has slowed my pc performance

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Hi guys,

I've just had the motherboard on my pc upgraded after it was found to have problems intermittent sata connections. It was upgraded to an MSI gaming 970. This is a system that I've had for about 8 months and I got a good feeling for how it did run.

Now, the general performance of the machine is sluggish, opening programs takes a little more time then before but most noticeable performance loss is framerate in games. Counter Strike: Global Offence runs at less at around 35fps. Diablo will run around 15fps. I dont feel these are graphically heavy and I ran diablo at around 50-60fps and CS:GO was easily 100-120fps.

I am running Windows 10. Chipset, GPU and Bios driver are all upto date. Me and two others having been pulling our hair out looking for the problem

Do you guys have any ideas? PC Spec is as below


main : MSI Gaming 970
cpu : AMD FX 8350 AM3+
ram : 32b HyperX ddr 3
vga : Radeon R9 270x
psu : cooler master 500w
hdd : 2x2TB Western Digital and 1 Kingston 500gb SSD
 
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On the MSI 970 Gaming motherboard there is a switch marked 'SLOW_MODE'
msi_970_gaming_slow_mode-600x408.jpg


With this switched on, I believe it restricts the processor and slows the boot speed to allow more time to get into the BIOS.

Anyway, this was switched on and wasnt allowing the processor to use any more than 7x CPU multiplier (in my case 7x200Mhz base clock speed = 1.4Ghz Max Processing Speed) as soon as I flicked that switch, the...
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did you reinstall windows after the mobo upgrade?





 
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Hi guys, Thanks for the quick response! I am currently running through skitzos suggestions but nothing has showed up as an issue so far.

Windows was not reinstalled after the mobo was fitted. I think that maybe the next port of call.

Im not going mad am I? The system being the spec it is should happily run those games at a decent rate right?!
 
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In my experience, I have never had a computer work properly after upgrading a mobo and not reinstalling Windows. I'd say that 90% of the time they wouldn't even start up. You are probably fighting with legacy drivers or driver remnants.
 
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Hi guys, sorry for the slow reply. I've been out of the country.

Thanks for all the help so far but alas, a fresh windows install has not solved the problems unfortunately. Any more ideas?
 
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Power supply could be an issue, 500w is kind of marginal. Also, what speed is your RAM running at? It would help to run a benchmark like 3dmark11 to see if your CPU, memory, hard drives, or graphic system is the thing that is running slower than average.
 
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I have been using the 3Dmark demo to run some tests, here is a test ive just run and a comparison with similar components

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The maximum turbo core clock is worrying!!
 
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Interesting. Not sure I understand what I'm looking at. Who's machine is John Dory? Is Goiby yours? 4.715Ghz is not a normal turbo core clock for the 8350, it is supposed to be 4.2 unless that is some OC setting. The 1400Mhz turbo core is either being reported wrong or something is set wrong in your BIOS?
 
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Apologies, 'John Dory' was just a comparison system that had an AMD FX-8350 and a R9 270X GPU.

My GPU is a 4gb version and I have 32gb of RAM
The 'John Dory' system had a 2gb version and 16gb of RAM.

It does look like his has been clocked some aswell
 
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I would see what the reported speed in the BIOS is, reset the BIOS and update it if an update is available. I'd also check with any MSI programs that are available to see what it reports on RAM speed and CPU speed.
 
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Answer found.

Its was simply 'Slow mode' was on at the switch on the Mobo, lesson learnt. INSTALL YOUR OWN COMPONENTS!!!

Thanks for all the help guys, it kept me sane during this whole process.
 
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On the MSI 970 Gaming motherboard there is a switch marked 'SLOW_MODE'
msi_970_gaming_slow_mode-600x408.jpg


With this switched on, I believe it restricts the processor and slows the boot speed to allow more time to get into the BIOS.

Anyway, this was switched on and wasnt allowing the processor to use any more than 7x CPU multiplier (in my case 7x200Mhz base clock speed = 1.4Ghz Max Processing Speed) as soon as I flicked that switch, the processor could access 20x CPU multiplier (20x 200Mhz base clock speed = 4.0Ghz Max Processing Speed)

Hopefully that makes some sense?

Again, thanks for all the help!

 
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