I5 7600K Vs. FX 6350 performance

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I previously had an AMD FX 6350 6 core based system. I have now built a new rig based around the i5 7600K (thanks to the kind folks at the Tom's Hardware Forum). My main question is why am I noticing slightly less performance out of the 7600k in average day to day tasks such as: file explorer, internet, media loading, etc... just generic tasks. Don't get me wrong, this CPU slays in the game department but it just doesn't seem THAT much better than the FX 6350 I bought 5 years ago. Granted, I may not have pushed it enough yet..

For adequate input here are the old specs vs new specs

CPU: AMD FX 6350 Unlocked
MOBO: Asrock Extreme 3 990fx
RAM: DDR3 something G.skill sniper 2 x 4gb
GPU: Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5
SSD: Samsung Evo 128GB

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CPU: i5 7600k
MOBO: Asrock Z270 Killer SLI/ac
RAM: DDR4 Geil Potenza 2 x 8gb
GPU: Radeon RX 480 8gb
SSD: Crucial 525 GB & Samsung Evo 128 GB
 
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Sry. I quick edited in the wrong area of my post. But I mean in average day to do tasks it doesn't seem any faster.

And yea, I did a clean install of windows 10 to the brand new SSD
 
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Took me over 3 hrs to figure out that one time while fiddling with fan wiring I had accidentally enabled the eco switch on the mobo and restricted the cpu to 40% load max, which was killing my fps. I'd take a good long look at bios and windows power settings to see if there's any such restrictions or other eco type settings dampening the cpu performance.
 
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Just browsing and basic tasks aren't going to be noticeably faster. What day to day tasks do you mean? I can't tell much difference between my laptop with an i5 5200u, 8GB of DDR3 and a 480GB SATA SSD vs my desktop with a 6700K @ 4.6Ghz, 16GB of DDR4 3200 and a 512GB NVMe Samsung 950 Pro just using the internet and Windows. It's when you're doing something actually stressful that the faster system shines.

The easiest way to tell if your system is working to its potential is to run a few benchmarks.

This will give you a baseline.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/
 
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I suppose I mean in situations where im trying to open multiple simple programs one after another for things such as school work. Say I want to open a powerpoint, word document, and packet tracer at relatively the same time. Seems a couple seconds slower than it used to on the old system. Its no too big of a deal, was just curious for some insight. Ty
 
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Try the benchmark I linked to above. It tests everything and will tell you if part of your system is running slower than expected.
 
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Well I got Nuclear Submarine status so I guess I'm just being picky lol... Lowest score was my Seagate Barracuda HDD @ 70.4%
Samsung 840 Pro 128gb @ 105% (how 105?)
Crucial MX300 525gb @ 86.4%
 
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It just means that drive did a little better than their baseline for similar drives. Those all look great.
 
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