Poor i5-4590 benchmarks

[Irfdawg]

Hi:

I used Passmark PerformanceTest 8.0 to benchmark my CPU and GPU because I noticed a lot of frame drops in Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. My GPU benchmarked well in 3D graphics, but my CPU managed a meager rating of 3040 compared to the 7253 it should be (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html).
I know Intel's quality control is supposed to be nearly flawless, but should this alone get me a motherboard replacement? I contacted MSI a while back about an RMA, but they wouldn't replace it; they said they'd only take it for repair, and would need four weeks to repair it (and I couldn't/can't be down for that long). There's another issue with a temperature sensor on the board, too, but I don't know that it's relevant to this.
I tried reseating the CPU once and it helped, though I don't recall exactly how much. What's the best course of action moving forward?

My build consists of:
i5-4590 @ 3.30GHz w/ stock cooler
MSI Z97 PC Mate
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866
XFX R9 280
120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (boot drive)
1TB Western Digital HDD (storage drive)
620W Antec PSU

Thanks a lot.

 

[GhislainG]

If you use CPU-Z to monitor the CPU while running the benchmark (or Prime95), does it keep on running at full speed?

 

[rockie_]

There are a lot of ratings , you might have messed up some of them . Try Cinebench R15

 

[Irfdawg]

If you use CPU-Z to monitor the CPU while running the benchmark (or Prime95), does it keep on running at full speed?

I ran the PerformanceTest CPU benchmark again, and CPU-Z showed the speed jumping around anywhere from ~1600MHz to ~3600MHz (the chip can turbo to 3.7GHz). However, the benchmark score is now 4646, which is a pretty strange gap. I ran another benchmark, NovaBench, before running PerformanceTest the second time to see what would happen, and my CPU scored a 434 on that. https://novabench.com/cpuchart.php This is the chart for that benchmark, but my CPU isn't there; comparing it to what I'd imagine to be similarly-capable CPUs (e.g. the i5-4670), it isn't that horrible. Now I'm unsure of why the benchmarks are jumping around like this. I'm also wondering if trying to get MSI to send me a new board just for the temperature sensor so I can have that fixed (BIOS and every program show my CPU at 80-128C even when I'm not doing anything) and see if it's the issue with the CPU, too.

 

[rockie_]

if the CPU overheats , it throttles ! So , you cant achieve the top score

 

[Irfdawg]

There are a lot of ratings , you might have messed up some of them . Try Cinebench R15

I just ran it, and scored a 146. An i7-3770k should score higher than mine, of course, but it scores a 662, which is obviously a really large difference. -.-

 

[Irfdawg]

if the CPU overheats , it throttles ! So , you cant achieve the top score

Yeah, I was thinking this, but my cooler is running at 100% all the time. I'm wondering if reseating the CPU and reapplying the thermal compound might help, but I kinda doubt I messed that up twice.

 

[rockie_]

it could help also scan for viruses and check for running background processes.

Edit:Restore BIOS defaults