What is happening?

[Tavishberlin]

I have a EVGA Gtx 960 ftw 2.0, 16gb ram, i5 4690k not OCed. I just upgraded from an i3 but my gaming performance has nose dived pretty badly. I haven't upgraded my mobo yet from the stock Dell 88DT1 that came with. I don't know if I'm expecting too much when I say I just want a steady 50-60 fps. What's happening? Bottlenecking? Is my mobo holding me back? Should I switch back to my i3?

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Did you replace the thermal paste when you swapped processors?

 

[Tavishberlin]

Did you replace the thermal paste when you swapped processors?

I had it done at fry's Electronics because my wife didn't want me to break anything. I would assume they did as it was a paid install.

 

[Tavishberlin]

Did you replace the thermal paste when you swapped processors?

I did however just run Core Temp and all 4 cores were running at about 55°C that was while running Kerbal space program in the background. They seem to idle at 33°CC. I dunno what the norm is though

 

[CRITICALThinker]

That seems like a fine temperature, maybe check utilizations and clock speeds while gaming to see if it is holding back somewhere. Sorry for the late response, I had to hit the sack and couldn't check on my phone.

 

[Tavishberlin]

That seems like a fine temperature, maybe check utilizations and clock speeds while gaming to see if it is holding back somewhere. Sorry for the late response, I had to hit the sack and couldn't check on my phone.

I checked my clock speed and I noticed my gpu keeps reverting itself to 540MHz and memory clock is at 3005MHz. It normally runs around 1300MHz and 4000MHz so I dunno. I'm messing around with things trying to get it working

 

[CRITICALThinker]

It could be the power supply, but normally that gives other issues.... maybe bios? If you upgraded from an early Haswell to the refresh(4690k) it could be the bios. This is a bit above what I can help with from what I know, but hopefully another user can share some insight. I deselected my first response so that other users can see that this is unsolved. Good luck with figuring out the issue.

 

[Tavishberlin]

So it turns out my stock Dell mobo was limiting everything. I bought a new MSI pc mate z97 and now everything is running as it should have been. The Dell mobo practically cut all performance in half.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Glad the problem was solved. Seems it was a bios issue after all, likely similar to putting a new cpu in a laptop that has no support for it