CPU Performance Help

[Slifa]

I currently have a i5 6600k and over time have notice my cpu to not be performing as well as others. I do have a K skew and do not overclock (dumb of me but lets not talk about that). My problem is that my cpu does not perform as well as other cpus even when they are both running at stock frequencies. I have used userbenchmark.com, and others benchmarks to try to confirm this but I do not know for sure. I know there are several factors that could cause this difference but if someone could try to help me out it would be greatly appreciated. 

[Fasauceome]

It could be thermal throttling, or on a cheap motherboard. More details?

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Slifa said:

 

Depends on the GPU, and if you have slow or a single stick of RAM that might cause some performance dips in some programs

[KarathKasun]

12 minutes ago, Slifa said:

I currently have a i5 6600k and over time have notice my cpu to not be performing as well as others. I do have a K skew and do not overclock (dumb of me but lets not talk about that). My problem is that my cpu does not perform as well as other cpus even when they are both running at stock frequencies. I have used userbenchmark.com, and others benchmarks to try to confirm this but I do not know for sure. I know there are several factors that could cause this difference but if someone could try to help me out it would be greatly appreciated. 

You are using UB, which is flawed.

 

UB lumps overclocked and normal results together (it does not always pick up overclocks).  More people OC the 6600k, so your score will be closer to the bottom.

[Slifa]

1 hour ago, fasauceome said:

It could be thermal throttling, or on a cheap motherboard. More details?

 

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

Depends on the GPU, and if you have slow or a single stick of RAM that might cause some performance dips in some programs

 

58 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

You are using UB, which is flawed.

 

UB lumps overclocked and normal results together (it does not always pick up overclocks).  More people OC the 6600k, so your score will be closer to the bottom.

I don't think its thermals because I have manually changed the fan curve in the BIOS to stay aggressive and there was no noticeable difference. The motherboard is a MSI H110M Gaming, so it may be "cheap" although I think it could be worse. I have an overclocked 6GB 1060 which when compared to others performs better than most. I also have one stick of RAM but I looked up single vs dual channel and there was almost no difference, so idk. I also found a way to compare the clocks of others, that way it was only stock CPUs against mine.     Here is a link to my specs -->https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Slifa/saved/7HRVnQ

[KarathKasun]

H110 is literally the worst performing chipset in the 100 series.

Using only a single stick of ram will have up to a 25% negative impact on performance.

[TheRaggingSword]

H110 Motherboards may reduce the performance since it gives less power to the CPU. Also you have single channel ram which reduces your speed by quite a bit. The ram speed might make a small difference too.

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, TheRaggingSword said:

H110 Motherboards may reduce the performance since it gives less power to the CPU. Also you have single channel ram which reduces your speed by quite a bit. The ram speed might make a small difference too.

H110 does not mean less power, AFAIK it just has fewer DMI lanes to the CPU.

 

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I also found a way to compare the clocks of others, that way it was only stock CPUs against mine.   

UB does NOT always pick up on CPU frequency properly, so the data is still invalid.

 

[TheRaggingSword]

1 minute ago, KarathKasun said:

H110 does not mean less power, AFAIK it just has fewer DMI lanes to the CPU.

Yea but the vast majority of H110 motherboards only have 4 pin cpu connectors as opposed to 8 in other chip sets. I don;t think the cpu is getting enough power from the socket to turbo up properly and sustain itself at that clock speed.

[KarathKasun]

Just now, TheRaggingSword said:

Yea but the vast majority of H110 motherboards only have 4 pin cpu connectors as opposed to 8 in other chip sets. I don;t think the cpu is getting enough power from the socket to turbo up properly and sustain itself at that clock speed.

No mainstream desktop CPU pulls more power than a 4-pin can deliver.

[Slifa]

18 hours ago, TheRaggingSword said:

Yea but the vast majority of H110 motherboards only have 4 pin cpu connectors as opposed to 8 in other chip sets. I don;t think the cpu is getting enough power from the socket to turbo up properly and sustain itself at that clock speed.

 

18 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

No mainstream desktop CPU pulls more power than a 4-pin can deliver.

I appreciate all the help from everyone. I guess when I make an upgrade it will be the CPU and a better motherboard. Also I only got one stick of RAM that way I could save money and upgrade in the future. The motherboard does only have a 4-pin connector, although I have never heard of that being an issue, maybe that does have an impact on the performance.