New Processor worse than old one
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louietien
August 15, 2014 12:18:25 PM
So recently I bought an AMD Phenom II X4 965 to replace my AMD Athlon II X3 440. I haven't mounted it myself, I got someone in a tech store to do it, so it shouldn't be anything about putting it in differently. Anyway, to the subject. So I got them to replace my CPU, and when I get it back, I launch Counter-Strike Global Offensive, and it seems that the old processor ran the game smoother. Which I don't understand since my old one was 3-cored and my current one is Quad-Core. By "smoother" I mean with higher FPS.
Is there any reason to this?
EDIT 08/20/2014:
So recently I sent it back to those tech guys, and they told me it was a problem in the windows installation. So I reinstalled windows and everything worked again. I have no idea what happened, but apparently it worked. So thanks for you guys' help anyway.
Is there any reason to this?
EDIT 08/20/2014:
So recently I sent it back to those tech guys, and they told me it was a problem in the windows installation. So I reinstalled windows and everything worked again. I have no idea what happened, but apparently it worked. So thanks for you guys' help anyway.
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louietien
August 15, 2014 12:53:15 PM
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August 15, 2014 12:55:45 PM
louietien
August 15, 2014 12:57:31 PM
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August 15, 2014 1:01:46 PM
For one thing, you installed HWinfo32 when you should have installed the 64bit version. I'd uninstall it and run the correct version but it's not a major big deal. Secondly, that's the summary window. When HWinfo starts check the box that says sensors. Take screenshots of all listed sensors. This may take two or three screenshots to accomplish. Also, +1 on the drivers. Brick and mortar repair shops are notorious for only using the standard windows drivers, which we all know can be the cause of sub-standard performance and driver issues.
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louietien
August 15, 2014 2:24:47 PM
logainofhades said:
Are your GPU drivers up to date? The tech guys might not have installed them and used whatever came from Windows update. Yeah, I updated them myself when I got the computer. I'm pretty sure it's something with the CPU, since the old one ran CS GO on 200 fps while this runs on 30. Right now I'm off to bed, so I'm gonna look into it tomorrow
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August 16, 2014 1:39:48 AM
darkbreeze said:
For one thing, you installed HWinfo32 when you should have installed the 64bit version. I'd uninstall it and run the correct version but it's not a major big deal. Secondly, that's the summary window. When HWinfo starts check the box that says sensors. Take screenshots of all listed sensors. This may take two or three screenshots to accomplish. Also, +1 on the drivers. Brick and mortar repair shops are notorious for only using the standard windows drivers, which we all know can be the cause of sub-standard performance and driver issues.Right, so I've installed the 64-bit version, and here's the screenshots.




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louietien
August 16, 2014 1:42:56 AM
They might have done the install wrong. At 800mhz, which means the cpu is turned way down, almost to off, probably by the turbo core or energy saving features of either the BIOS settings or the AMD utility, there's no way you should be running at 44c. It's possible they didn't apply the thermal paste correctly or didn't secure the heatsink to the cpu lid properly. If that's the case you might be getting throttled under high game load as the temp's might be exceeding the thermal limit. Run a game and give it a good load for about five minutes or so and then take another set of screenshots and post them so we can see. Nice job on the screenshots too. That's perfect.
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louietien
August 16, 2014 1:59:46 AM
darkbreeze said:
They might have done the install wrong. At 800mhz, which means the cpu is turned way down, almost to off, probably by the turbo core or energy saving features of either the BIOS settings or the AMD utility, there's no way you should be running at 44c. It's possible they didn't apply the thermal paste correctly or didn't secure the heatsink to the cpu lid properly. If that's the case you might be getting throttled under high game load as the temp's might be exceeding the thermal limit. Run a game and give it a good load for about five minutes or so and then take another set of screenshots and post them so we can see. Nice job on the screenshots too. That's perfect.First, what does "give it a load" mean.
Also, I'm guessing the screenshots should be in HWINFO while the game is running?
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Yes on the second question. Give it a load means that in order to an accurate idea of what the temps are when running intensive operations like gaming or doing things with video editing, 3d graphics, etc., it needs to be under load by either running a resource intensive game, editing video or running an application like Intel burn test or Prime95 (Small fft's, one of the options for the type of stress test) that stress the cpu to determine stability. After a couple of minutes it's usually stressed enough to get an accurate idea of temps although for stability testing it needs to run for a period of time.
We're not concerned with stability at the moment, only temps, so a few minutes should be find and then snap some screen shots. If you have an application for doing complete system backups like Acronis True Image, this also will put a nice load on it (Not what it sounds like, has nothing to do with bodily functions, heh.) during a backup sufficient for our purposes.
We're not concerned with stability at the moment, only temps, so a few minutes should be find and then snap some screen shots. If you have an application for doing complete system backups like Acronis True Image, this also will put a nice load on it (Not what it sounds like, has nothing to do with bodily functions, heh.) during a backup sufficient for our purposes.
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louietien
August 22, 2014 8:54:28 AM
louietien said:
Jcomptech said:
List your specs. It could be a bottleneck issue. Or even something else.I'm quite sure that it's not bottleneck issues. But here is my specs anyway.
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Quad-Core @3.40 GHz
ASUS Geforce GTX 650 Ti
8,00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz RAM
MSI 970A-G46 Motherboard.
I didnt read about the part where you said you old processor ran the game better. Sorry for the false info
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louietien said:
So recently I sent it back to those tech guys, and they told me it was a problem in the windows installation. So I reinstalled windows and everything worked again. I have no idea what happened, but apparently it worked. So thanks for you guys' help anyway.Did they replace the motherboard too?? If so then you would need to reinstall windows with a different motherboard, depending on chipset and other things.
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