Is my system Underperforming?

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kawai

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Hello I am running a system with these specs and believe that my computer is under performing:

Intel C2D E8400
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
Xigmatek HDT-S1283
2x2GB DDR2 800 PC6400 OCZ Gold (OCZ2G8004GK)
625W MODU+82 Enermax PSU
Radeon HD 4870x2
Western Digital SE16 640GB
Antec P182 SE
Samsung 245BW 24" LCD
Vista Ultimate 64bit

I noticed that I can't run games on the settings reviews say i should be fine with. Mainly Farcry 2. I decided to do a SuperPi and wPrime tests at stock clock and for 1M in superpi I average around 23seconds and wPrime 32m I get 60s. These values seem a bit high to me compared tot he reviews I have read. I have recently recieved a new CPU from intel because i thought this was a CPU problem however it still exists!. I have tried two sets of OCZ ram however still around the same results.

My friend has the same cpu /mobo/HD however different GPU and memory, he gets around 11 seconds @ 4.0ghz in superPI. Could this be bios settings or a hardware issue?

I have set all my bios settings all to auto except for timings which is the recommended 5 5 5 18 @ 2.1v
 
Yes those scores are a bit low for your cpu. Check your cpu temps, your cpu may be getting to hot. If it is, reseat the cpu, reapply thermal paste and check temps again. If everything is ok, run the benchmarks again.
 
I have been monitoring the temps using realtemp and coretemp and they have been fine

I also just installed this cpu , intel shipped me this one new just yesterday :S I had similar results with my earlier cpu so now I believe the cpu is out of the equation in terms of whats causing this.

I'm also doing these tests at stock clock ... 23sec in superpi and it sometimes crashes as well.. I checked some reveiws and it should be around 15-17s

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Right, the problem is probably not your cpu but something else in your system.

Check for any process gobbling up cpu resources. Keep an eye on task manager for anything else cpu intensive running in the background when your running your benchmarks.

Verify that your cpu is running at stock speeds using cpu-z. Just to make sure a bios setting is not off. For testing purposes, load optimized defaults settings in the bios, and rerun the benchmarks.
 
This is also reflected in some of the games i play. I cant even run farcry 2 close to the max settings or at playable max settings that Hardocp listed in their article. I just got L4D and i cant even MAX that either ...theres a lot of stuttering
 
Right, I would start by trouble shooting the low cpu benchmark score's first. Once you get that worked out then your game experience should improve.

Your supper pi score is a bit low, it should be around 17 sec like you say. But your wPrime 32m score is what really caught my eye, it was way low. My e6400 @ 2.8GHZ scores 29sec on that benchmark and it has 1/3 the cpu cache your e8400 has. So you should be getting way better than 60 sec on that benchmark and should even be better than 29 sec.

Try doing what I suggested in the above posts and see if it helps.
 
nightwalker said:
are you 100% certain you don't have any speedstep crap on ?
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Should not matter. I have speedstep on without any loss in performance. My cpu ramps up to 2.8GHz instantly when I run a benchmark or anything cpu intensive, at idle my cpu drops back down to 2.1GHz (352x6). I have benchmarked my cpu with speedstep on and off with no difference at all in performace.
 
I switched to a 4550 cuz i thought that maybe the 4870x2 was drawing too much power on my psu. I also disabled c1e and eist to test again.
Even worse scores for 3d vantage mark , i only ran CPU tests.
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Your cpu temperature looks good. I do not see much cpu utilization going on in the background either according to coretemp.

Your hardware looks to be good quality, although I am not sure about the Enermax PSU, everything else looks good.

Do you have the latest bios for you motherboard? If not, update your bios.

It might be a driver issue. In your original post you mentioned something about supper pi crashing. You may have a stability problem somewhere with your system. Can it pass a couple of hours of orthos or prime95?

Run memtest86 from a bootable cd to check your memory. Also check your event viewer for any weird errors, run a hd diagnostics tool.

As a last resort you could reinstall the OS, on the possibility that the OS is borked somewhere, if it is a reinstall or a repair install of the operating system may fix the poor cpu performance problem.

Thats about all I can think of right now. Keep us posted with your progress.

Edit:
 
Hmm so it might be a HD problem,

06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 97 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1!
 
So it is a faulty HD, swapped it with a spinpoint f1 1tb, got 15.6 sec in superpi and 26 sec in wPrime. Tons better than before at least.Off to rma with the WD
 
Glad you found the problem. Those benchmark scores look much better for the cpu you have.

The WD6400AAKS is a good drive, but I guess a bad one slipped through. You should not have a problem getting it replaced.
 
What did you use to test your HD?

I have been suspecting something has been wrong with mine for a little while, even after reformatting I seem to have problems. It's the only thing I haven't tested out...
 
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