I just built a new system. I'm actually pretty experienced at this, and can typically fix most of the "this isn't working" or "system keeps crashing" type of issues, but this one is a new one to me. Despite decent hardware throughout, this system is performing horrifically slow.
On setup day, I forgot to get Windows 10 installation media ready, so I installed from a Windows 8.1 disc I had laying around and then upgraded to 10 using some installation media I created (I'm an MSDN subscriber so have access to the direct downloads for most Microsoft software.) Now, I didn't use it much when it was 8.1 (about 12 hours), but I used it enough that I felt the performance was really good--since going to 10 it's been horrible.
I subjected the system to some benchmarking using PassMark's "PerformanceTest" and ran all the tests, and yeah...it pretty much came in abysmally, with worse scores than a system using 5+ year old components.
Here are some of the notable discrepancies between my system and the "typical" PassMark scores uploaded by users using the same hardware:
CPU Mark Score
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K @ 3.50GHz
Typical Score (TS): 13667
My Score (MS): 1420
2D Graphics Mark Score
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
TS: 430-894 range for similar GPUs
MS: 89.1 (couldn't find the typical score for my specific GPU)
3D Graphics Mark
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
TS: 8659
MS: 1540
Memory Mark
Memory: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM PCF-24024
TS: 900-2300 for similar/lower rated ram
MS: 392.8
Disk Mark
Disk: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
TS: 3000+ (other SSDs)
MS: 2036
I tried to where possible find the exact scores for my hardware but I'm new to messing with this software and their website so wasn't able to find it, but either way, in every single broad category (and all the many subtests I didn't post just for brevity's sake) my system is vastly below the norm. Typically even vastly below much worse hardware, CPUs/GPUs 5+ years ago are getting higher scores on these tests, and my SSD is even slower than some traditional HDDs on score, and the memory rating is lower than all 5 of the "benchmark" memory models Passmark compares against (and all of them are actually slower memory than what I have.) So there must be something systemic that is gravely wrong with this system, but I'm at a complete loss.
Any help would be much appreciated!
On setup day, I forgot to get Windows 10 installation media ready, so I installed from a Windows 8.1 disc I had laying around and then upgraded to 10 using some installation media I created (I'm an MSDN subscriber so have access to the direct downloads for most Microsoft software.) Now, I didn't use it much when it was 8.1 (about 12 hours), but I used it enough that I felt the performance was really good--since going to 10 it's been horrible.
I subjected the system to some benchmarking using PassMark's "PerformanceTest" and ran all the tests, and yeah...it pretty much came in abysmally, with worse scores than a system using 5+ year old components.
Here are some of the notable discrepancies between my system and the "typical" PassMark scores uploaded by users using the same hardware:
CPU Mark Score
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K @ 3.50GHz
Typical Score (TS): 13667
My Score (MS): 1420
2D Graphics Mark Score
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
TS: 430-894 range for similar GPUs
MS: 89.1 (couldn't find the typical score for my specific GPU)
3D Graphics Mark
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
TS: 8659
MS: 1540
Memory Mark
Memory: 16GB DDR4 SDRAM PCF-24024
TS: 900-2300 for similar/lower rated ram
MS: 392.8
Disk Mark
Disk: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
TS: 3000+ (other SSDs)
MS: 2036
I tried to where possible find the exact scores for my hardware but I'm new to messing with this software and their website so wasn't able to find it, but either way, in every single broad category (and all the many subtests I didn't post just for brevity's sake) my system is vastly below the norm. Typically even vastly below much worse hardware, CPUs/GPUs 5+ years ago are getting higher scores on these tests, and my SSD is even slower than some traditional HDDs on score, and the memory rating is lower than all 5 of the "benchmark" memory models Passmark compares against (and all of them are actually slower memory than what I have.) So there must be something systemic that is gravely wrong with this system, but I'm at a complete loss.
Any help would be much appreciated!