I have a better PC than my friend, yet he keeps better performance, I would like to know why.

ToxiicHydra

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Hello people, I have a decent gaming PC that I spent about 820 dollars on.
Parts:
GPU: R9 380
CPU: i5 4460
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750
MOBO: Gigabyte H81M-HD3

My buddy spent 400 bucks (granted this was on black friday) and he gets better benchmark scores and almost the same fps as I do in game.
Parts:
GPU: R7 370
CPU: AMD FX 6300 OC 4.0
PSU: CX500M
MOBO: Its an ATX motherboard by MSI, sorry not sure.

My question is why in cinebench he gets 520 on stock and I get 446, and in open GL hes only 10 FPS behind me. In battlefield 4 he gets steady 60 on ultra and I get 60 into high 40s in BF4.
Both run Windows 10 at 1080P. I would like someone to explain this, thanks.
 
Solution
`` My friend says the new windows 10 update killed his FPS in most games, might reinstall windows 8.``
thats possible but easy to fix by removing the gpu driver with DDU and reinstalling the new up to date driver version

Albert Rampo

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6 core synthetic benchmarks beats a quad in most cases ... also what kind of ram are you using the PSU and mobo dont really matter and what HDD or SSD you have i hope you got the K verison of that CPU so you can OC it more than 4.0Ghz
 

ToxiicHydra

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We both use 8GB of 1600MHZ RAM and I have 2 TB HDD and he has 1 TB HD both Western digital. 7200 RPM

 

Albert Rampo

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get MSI after burner and check if you GPUs core memory power limits and utilization are performing properly it could be you arent on actuall fullscreen and the GPU isnt engaging properly
 

ToxiicHydra

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I think my gpu is bad, the fans turn on and off sometimes when gaming and fps drops crazy, the main thing that changed though is when I got a new monitor when i went from 900p to 1080 and crushed my fps about 30 fps in BF4, When explosions happen now I get like 20 to 30 fps in BF4 I dont know, My friend says the new windows 10 update killed his FPS in most games, might reinstall windows 8.