Cpu not working as good as it should?!

Ogicv543

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I have just bought new pc and i stress tested it and it was at 22% usage. I did it again and results were same. My components are:
MSI Z170 Gaming M3
Intel Core i5 6600k
Asus Strix GTX 1060 6GB O6G
HyperX Savage RAM(2x8)
1000Gb hdd
120GB hyperx ssd
Thermaltake NIC L32
600W Raidmax Cobra

I tested my cpu with CPU Z
Plz help!!
 



check temperatures and is it using a stock heatsink it could be throttling
 

Julio_17

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Hello,
I had this exact same motherboard. The motherboard is throttling down the processor, and your cpu cores may be parked as well.
I had a FX-8370 and at first, everything was insanely slow. After boot, it would take 8 seconds to launch Skype. I timed it.
Go intos BIOS and turn off anything that could throttle down your processor speed. The MSI 970 has these features that are meant to control temperatures and help performance, but that actually throttle them down inadvertently.
And I'd check if it's also parking any of your CPU cores. On an AMD chip it was parking half of mine by default.

The MSI 970 is a mediocore motherboard. In-game, the chat would randomly cut off from my headset to my speakers. You can't even update the drivers because their not supported for Windows 10. I'd get a different motherboard altogether if you can.
 

Ogicv543

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I have watched Paul's Hardware on YouTube. He used the same motherboard and cpu and it was working great. And how can you have a same motherboard as i do, when you use amd proccesor?
 

Julio_17

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You are right, my motherboard was a MSI 970.

But I am guessing if you enter BIOS a lot of the same features are there. Trust me, read the manual on BIOS settings and turn off anything that has anything to do with temperatures or speeds or "automatic overclock" or anything of the sort.
 


check your motherboard manual make sure there are no actual energy savers turned on in the motherboard bios or it will keep the processor within a certain power envelope

 
Right at the bottom of the board ,to the left of the front panel connector is a small left/right toggle switch.
This is marked slow mode & locks cores to 1400mhz max, most MSI gaming boards have one & sometimes its locked to on out of the box.run the stress test again , if the cores only hit low speed then it's likely this.


Switch the Pc off, flick the switch the other way ,reboot & try again.
 

Julio_17

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Short the battery with a screwdriver with the motherboard off, cooled off, and power switch unplugged as well as switched off. It's in the manual.

You know, to be honest, just get a Gigabyte motherboard.