computer slow after cpu upgrade

lhughes1000

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Jun 5, 2014
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ever since i upgraded from i5 4590 to 17 4790k my computer has been much slowe,r talks a long time to boot especially on the bios screen. internet is generally much slower on it. the mobo is a asrock fatality z97 and iv tried updating the bios on it and it didnt do any good.
 

SkyMembrane

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Dec 23, 2015
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Did you update your Intel drivers? If you're still running on the I5-4690k windows drivers, of course you'll have problems. Before changing your CPU, you also have to do a CMOS reset, so that the motherboard adapts to the new CPU model.