9700k problems with performance

[BollyWood401]

 I upgraded from an i3 8350k to an 9700k, but now while playing games like far cry, and ghost recon wild lands, or gta 5 my FPS is dropping into the 30’s with my new 9700k, but when I had my 8350k it was hitting well above 60 FPS no problem. The card I’m using is a gtx 1070, my temps on the 9700k are sitting in the 40 C range while playing these games and it is turbo boosting to 4.5ghz. The overal usage is under 50 percent as well. Not sure why I’m getting such poor performance. There doesn’t seem to be any thermal throttling either as I checked with aida64. Real bummer that most of my favorite games are taking a hit  any idea what could be going on?

 

i7-9700k

16gb DDR4

gtx 1070 

Msi z370 gaming plus motherboard 

[Zuccers]

Hello there,

Have you tried reinstalling the cpu, also check if the CPU slot or the CPU itself has the right number of pins (it should be the same though, because both are i3's), None are bent and so on, maybe you want to take the RAM sticks out, or even update the motheboard

 

 

[BollyWood401]

I recently upgraded from an i3 8350k to an i7 9700k and I’m seeing a big decrease in performance and I’m not sure what is causing this. My games were running at about 80 FPS with the 8350k but now with the 9700k they are hitting lows of 30 FPS. CPU usage is in the 40 percent area. Temperatures sit in the 40 C area and there isn’t any thermal throttle. Could it be my graphics card?

[Shreyas1]

Which games, exactly? Low usage may just be the game not using the extra cores 

Edited April 4, 2019 by Shreyas1

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

Which games, exactly? Low usage may just be the game not using the extra cores 

Doesn't quite account for the decrease in performance, the i3 to the i7 is an increase no matter what

[Fasauceome]

4 hours ago, Zuccers said:

it should be the same though, because both are i3's

Not quite, one is an i3 and one is an i7

 

4 hours ago, Zuccers said:

also check if the CPU slot or the CPU itself has the right number of pins

I don't think OP has the time to count 1151 pins

[Shreyas1]

Actually, it would be best if you could just list your entire specs

[tp95112]

Is this a fresh install of windows? What is the whole system spec? What are the temperatures in game?

[ZeusXI]

41 minutes ago, BollyWood401 said:

I recently upgraded from an i3 8350k to an i7 9700k and I’m seeing a big decrease in performance and I’m not sure what is causing this. My games were running at about 80 FPS with the 8350k but now with the 9700k they are hitting lows of 30 FPS. CPU usage is in the 40 percent area. Temperatures sit in the 40 C area and there isn’t any thermal throttle. Could it be my graphics card?

did you check your power options? sometimes power saver can make a difference if that is selected. go balanced or high performance

[Mister Woof]

lows of 30? what were the lows on the i3? what are you averaging on your i7?