My System is Slower After Upgrade?

[mekyle99]

Just upgraded to an i5-8600k, and my whole system is a lot slower, and i'm upgrading from an i7-4790. What gives?

 

[Barty1884]

Did you clean install your OS? Or just migrate your OS drive over, plug it in & go?

 

[mekyle99]

Did you clean install your OS? Or just migrate your OS drive over, plug it in & go?

Just did a plug and go. Another thing worth mentioning is that it wasn't me who did the upgrade, it was my local PC store.

 

[Barty1884]

Just did a plug and go. Another thing worth mentioning is that it wasn't me who did the upgrade, it was my local PC store.

That's going to be it right there. You likely have a bunch of driver conflicts going on and, while they may not be causing crashes/BSODs currently, it's never going to feel as "smooth" as a clean install.

I'm [strike]shocked[/strike] disappointed a PC store would actually let that happen.

 

[mekyle99]

Just did a plug and go. Another thing worth mentioning is that it wasn't me who did the upgrade, it was my local PC store.

That's going to be it right there. You likely have a bunch of driver conflicts going on and, while they may not be causing crashes/BSODs currently, it's never going to feel as "smooth" as a clean install.

I'm [strike]shocked[/strike] disappointed a PC store would actually let that happen.

Is there a way I can check for this stuff? Honestly I had a feeling it was the problem, this HDD is about 2 years old now

 

[Barty1884]

You can "check" if the OS was clean installed - take a look in your program files. If there's program files that exist prior to the date the OS *should've* been reinstalled, then it wasn't/.