Supposedly higher-end CPU not performing correctly?

[krekklefrekkle]

So, I recently upgraded to an i7-4790k with a new gryphon z97 and a clean installation of windows on my ssd. I got the new processor in order to have better performance with video editing. I barely see a difference from when I used my i5-2500k.
Just now, I started up a game of Civ V with a bunch of mods on in a very large map. Everything ran fine until I ended my turn, then I experienced a lot of slowdown with just 8 civs and 12 city-states. I've heard Civ V is a cpu-intensive game, why am I still having trouble?
I figured in order to bear the wait between turns, I would window civ V and have youtube running in my second monitor. As soon as I did this civ v started running really badly and the youtube video was even stuttering.

I have 8 gigabytes of RAM and while this was going on, only 6 gigabytes were being used. I spent a ton of money on this processor and I am really disappointed.
Could it be because my PSU is 460 watts? Could it be my nvidia gtx 550 ti holding me back? Or is the i7 not as amazing as I expected it to be?

 

[dsr07mm]

Can you monitor CPU core usage during gaming ? Civ6 knows to shutter and do those kind of things, lately no matter how good hardware you have there will always be limits in performance from developers and overall coding.

I would suggest using some cpu monitore software like HWiNFO64 / CPU-Z and see temperatures, cpu/core usage. To clarify is cpu performing in theory fine you can do passmark benchmark, results are here - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz&id=2275

In terms of rendering and video editing, what software do you use ? You are not going to see difference with Sony Vegas for example, you will still need ~ 1 hour for 15min long video while in Adobe Premiere you will render 15min long video for about ~15min in 1080p60fps h264 codec.

 

[krekklefrekkle]

Can you monitor CPU core usage during gaming ? Civ6 knows to shutter and do those kind of things, lately no matter how good hardware you have there will always be limits in performance from developers and overall coding.

I would suggest using some cpu monitore software like HWiNFO64 / CPU-Z and see temperatures, cpu/core usage. To clarify is cpu performing in theory fine you can do passmark benchmark, results are here - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790K+%40+4.00GHz&id=2275

In terms of rendering and video editing, what software do you use ? You are not going to see difference with Sony Vegas for example, you will still need ~ 1 hour for 15min long video while in Adobe Premiere you will render 15min long video for about ~15min in 1080p60fps h264 codec.

In the performance test downloaded from that website, my cpu got a score of 12365.8. my overall passmark was only 3758.3, however. If my cpu is rated so high, why am I barely seeing a difference from before?

 

[utroz]

In gaming your GPU is very old and slow to be paired with your CPU. It doesn't have the raw power or vram to even make the cpu sweat 99% of the time. In cpu bound stuff the 4790K is only 15-20% more powerful in non AVX stuff than your old 2500K. With either CPU you need a way better GPU. The on die GPU on your 4790K is almost better than your Nvidia GFX 550 ti..

 

[synphul]

If you're gaming online and watching videos online, could it be that the two are stressing your internet connection? It's a bit of an exaggeration but an i7 won't make dialup run any faster than a pentium anniversary edition. Civ v is an older game and even when they revisited it with newer cpu's, using a single 7970 there's very little fps difference between the 2500k and 4790k.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7189/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-september-2013/8

 

[utroz]

Seriously the GTX 550 TI is a huge bottleneck in gaming, only 192 fermi cuda cores @ 900Mhz, 1GB of ram @4.1Gbps. It is a 2011 mid range GPU, so nowadays it can't keep up with even the cheapest modern cards.

 

[krekklefrekkle]

In gaming your GPU is very old and slow to be paired with your CPU. It doesn't have the raw power or vram to even make the cpu sweat 99% of the time. In cpu bound stuff the 4790K is only 15-20% more powerful in non AVX stuff than your old 2500K. With either CPU you need a way better GPU. The on die GPU on your 4790K is almost better than your Nvidia GFX 550 ti..

So, if I were to get say a Radeon R9 290x, my cpu will be able to show its true power?

 

[krekklefrekkle]

If you're gaming online and watching videos online, could it be that the two are stressing your internet connection? It's a bit of an exaggeration but an i7 won't make dialup run any faster than a pentium anniversary edition. Civ v is an older game and even when they revisited it with newer cpu's, using a single 7970 there's very little fps difference between the 2500k and 4790k.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7189/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-september-2013/8

I was playing single player, the only thing really depending on my internet connection was the youtube vid, which I could watch fine if Civ V was minimized.

 

[utroz]

Yes for gaming a AMD 290, 290X or Nvidia 970, 980, 980ti would all be serious upgrades for you.