Why is my Novabench Score so low??

[Nickfarquhar]

I have no idea why i am getting such terrible scores on these benchmarks and its making me nuts trying to figure it out, Help me please!



9/8/2015 9:11:52 PM
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Intel Core i54690K 3.50GHz @ 3501 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

8143 MB System RAM (Score: 160)
- RAM Speed: 5015 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 135)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 41758772
- Integer Operations/Second: 101117080
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 281360

Graphics Tests (Score: 191)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 567

Hardware Tests (Score: 25)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 465 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 44 MB/s

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz running at 3501 MHz

NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GPU

500 gb Samsung SSD

8gm ram DDR3 - 1600 MHz

 

[clutchc]

I'm not familiar with Novabench, nor its accuracy. What is your main use, gaming? If so, run the Firestrike benchmark in 3DMark and I'll compare with the rig in my sig.
http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark

 

[Nickfarquhar]

score = 4301
GRAPHICS CARD

Graphics Card = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
-Vendor = Asustek Computer, Inc.
-# of cards = 1
-SLI / CrossFire = Off
-Memory = 4,096 MB
-Core clock = 1,134 MHz
-Memory bus clock = 1,763 MHz
-Driver name = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
-Driver version = 10.18.13.5582

PROCESSOR
-Processor Intel Core = i5-4690K
-Reported stock core clock = 3,500 MHz
-Maximum turbo core clock = 800 MHz
-Physical / logical processors = 1 / 4
-# of cores 4 Package =LGA1150
-Manufacturing process = 22 nm
-TDP = 88 W

GENERAL
Operating system 64-bit Windows 10 (6.3.10240)
Motherboard ASRock Z97 Pro4
Memory 8,192 MB
Module 14,096 MB Crucial Technology DDR3 @ 800 MHz
Module 24,096 MB Crucial Technology DDR3 @ 800 MHz
Hard drive model 500 GB Samsung SSD 840 Series SCSI Disk Device

I really dont know what this means so if you could elaborate please do 🙁

 

[clutchc]

Don't know what what means? Just post the link to your results.
Here's mine @ 4.5 GHz: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5781191
If you want me to run one at stock speed, it'll have to wait til tomorrow.

 

[Nickfarquhar]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5940095

 

[Nickfarquhar]

it seems to me that my cpu has s*it the bed

 

[clutchc]

it seems to me that my cpu has s*it the bed

Wow! I guess I don't have to run mine at stock speed for comparison, after all. You definitely have something major wrong. I would suspect a settings error. Or possibly the cooler is not on correctly and the CPU is throttling at high temps. Run prime95 Version 26.6 while watching core temps with HWinfo. See if all cores stay at ~100% or if some drop out.
prime95 ver. 26.6: http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2803
Hwinfo: http://www.hwinfo.com/

 

[Nickfarquhar]

Well when I turned off my computer it decided to black screen on me with no pointer and I tried and tried pulling off every hardware piece I could take off that wasn't essential so I figure it's gotta be the motherboard or the cpu otherwise I'd be getting an error message. Once my cpu gets back from the shop I'll write an update

 

[clutchc]

Might be the PSU. Low quality? Too small? Got my fingers crossed for ya...