What is bottlenecking my benchmarks?

[PieFlavourPie]

Okay, so recently I've been doing a lot of benchmarking and I've started to notice that compared to other people who have similar or hardware my scores are pretty low.

- Firestrike (18000 average, not even extreme)

- Valley (5000 average)

Those are the two I use the most, but others are scoring similar too, you get the jist. Now I know benchmarks doing mean much in comparison in game performance, but it bugs me that other people with the same or not as good hardware can score in higher 20000's of firestrike.

My specs are:

intel i7 4930k @ 4.5Ghz
SLI GTX 980's (Twin Frozr) @ 1505Mhz
ASUS P9X79-E WS Motherboard
16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz RAM
Corsair H105 cooler
120GB Kingston Hyper-X SSD
1TB/500GB/300GB HDD'S
800w Corsair gaming series.

Any idea if I have a bottleneck somewhere?

 

[i7Baby]

CPU temps?

CPU usage (Task Manager) vs GPU usage (Afterburner)?

 

[MetalSparks]

Those are some godly specs. :O

Possibly your SSD and HDD's - I'm sure your 300 and 500GB drives aren't the highest of RPMs with the most cache, and I've heard that Kingston makes some slow SSDs (when compared to other SSDs like the Samsung 850 Pro, Intel 730, etc.)

 

[PieFlavourPie]

CPU temps are around 29c-32-c idle, underload in Firestrike in what not temps rarely go above 55c.

CPU usage is stretched across the 6 cores and 2 threads so it varies alot, during the physics test in firestrike for example all 12 (logical cores) sit use around 50% each according to afterburner, perhaps less.
GPU usage scales almost perfectly, though in firestrike one is only using around 70% sometimes.

 

[i7Baby]

The there's no bottleneck - nothing is at 100% usage.

Can you change any settings in the benchmarking?

 

[PieFlavourPie]

@ MetalSparks Yeah, admittedly my (HDD'S mainly) are pretty awful haha, I cheaped out and pulled them out of my old system. The SSD seems fine though, we'll hopefully.