tried benchmarking my PC, confusing results

[rezplog]

hi. my rig is a R9 Fury X 4GB graphics card, a core i7-4790K 4GHz Quad-core processor with 16GB RAM with a water cooled CPU. i was getting some strange fps dips in battlefield 1 so i decided to benchmark my system with userbenchmark. here are the results

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11763652

it seems for the most part my rig is running fine, but i am confused about two things. first, userbenchmark claims that my 4790K is performing below expectations (28th percentile) yet it gave it an "excellent" score of 80.5 percentile. i don't know whether this means my CPU is faulty or performing well since the results literally contradict each other

the other issue is with my RAM, at the bottom of the test results. it appears my RAM is all around performing very badly. i was wondering if this means i should get new sticks. thanks

 

[R_1]

userbenchmark, is more a tool than a bench.
was anything else running, did you just boot up, was update hogging the RAM?
run the test a few more times.
how many of the other 4790k CPU's were overclocked and yours is at stock? the overclock-ability of the CPU means the CPU results should be given latitude.
I have has bad results stem from many issues like those listed above.

 

[tejayd]

Agreed. I have also noticed 4-5x when people posted with something that is really high or low that the storage tends to be the opposite very high or low. One of my PC's for example the CPU and gpu are extremely high (98-100%). But my ssd and hdd are low (25%ish). Except there is no reason that my gpu and cpu should have been high. It was all stock at the time. Also no reason the storage should have been low. Normally I would use another benchmark. But just tried that since I knew it was quick. My main desktop does get results on userbenchmark that seem to be close to what they were getting on other benchmarks.

 

[rezplog]

userbenchmark, is more a tool than a bench.
was anything else running, did you just boot up, was update hogging the RAM?
run the test a few more times.
how many of the other 4790k CPU's were overclocked and yours is at stock? the overclock-ability of the CPU means the CPU results should be given latitude.
I have has bad results stem from many issues like those listed above.

Nevermind about the processor, i think userbenchmark was glitched because when I ran it a second time it said my 4790K was running well above average and gave it the same excellent score. my ram on the other hand, has still tested at about 38%, well below average.

i am actually at a slight overclock (4.0ghz -> 4.25ghz). each time i ran the test there was nothing else running, and it had been a while since bootup. i think at this point it isn't a coincidence, and that my ram is faulty or something. however, i am getting this advice message from userbenchmark under my RAM stats:
"ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled"

not exactly sure what this means or how to do what it's asking. any ideas?

UPDATE: so i did some more research. i followed this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ram-speed-running-advertised-try-turning-xmp-watch/

CPU Z tells me i am in single channel mode, and the stated DRAM frequency is half of my RAM's advertised 1866mhz (about 950mhz) which if i'm correct means i can somehow change this to dual channel mode in the BIOS. i'm a little confused though because in my BIOS it tells me my XMP profile is already enabled (profile 1)