Strange upgrade, Q9400 to i5-2500 and now it is slower.

[jakubpawlinski]

Hi, I had few slowdowns in games and finally decided to have some upgrade, replaced my q9400 on DFI Lanparty with 4gb ram to i5-2500 on Asrock Extreme4 with 16gb of ram.

here are furmark results, and yes it is slower in games too. in furmark there is throttle -573mhz, I have CX430 PSU, one hdd. Could you explain me why I failed?

FurMark results

Thanks
Jakub

 

[clutchc]

Well... your weak card is the limiting factor in both cases. But that doesn't explain the discrepancy. However, Furmark is not a benchmark program in spite of what they call their "benchmark". It is a stress testing pgm. Try a different benchmark like one of the free Futuremark tests.
http://www.futuremark.com/
But the Q9400 would not have been limited by that card. If this is for gaming, you should have upgraded the card first.

 

[haider95]

Im sensing a GPU bottleneck, there shouldn't be one though.. the gts250 is a decent gpu

 

[jakubpawlinski]

Im sensing a GPU bottleneck, there shouldn't be one though.. the gts250 is a decent gpu

You were right!, that was GPU what was failing, or rather my self... I did not connect this PCI-E power cable... now its much better, but still sadly same

https://www.dropbox.com/s/txrulzqb1bsszy8/Screenshot%202014-07-29%2021.15.43.png

Seems that even if gts250 is a decent card, its power cuts at this point. (throttle -6mhz may mean that it is still underpowered a bit)

I thought that its rather CPU & RAM who were limiting me, that is why I went this way.

Thanks!

 

[clutchc]

Wait. How could the card even run w/o the 6 pin PCIe power cable connected?

 

[jakubpawlinski]

Wait. How could the card even run w/o the 6 pin PCIe power cable connected?

It can, in kind of safe mode, if you take a look at first results, it was 44C hot.

I remember that nvidia drivers were shouting about this with my previous gpu years ago, but seems that there is no notification for this model somehow.

Cheers,
J