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FX 6300 Low Performance

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I feel like my FX 6300 has always performed worse than it should, but could never find a reason. Today while rendering a video I noticed that the power usage in CPUID HWMonitor was well under the advertised max power draw of the CPU, screenshot below. Is this normal or is there something wrong with my PC?
FX 6300 at 4.0ghz on ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard.

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Never trust software to give you an accurate power or voltage reading. Truth is, the FX6300 really isn't that fast to begin with.

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TDP doesnt mean much. They just get the most power hungry chip (FX 8350 in this case) and copy that value to everything below it.

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SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Never trust software to give you an accurate power or voltage reading. Truth is, the FX6300 really isn't that fast to begin with.

I very much know that..unfortunately 3.5 vs 4.0ghz seems to have absolutely no effect on performance for me :/

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That's because it wasn't great to begin with. If you doubt the performance, do a synthetic benchmark like Cinebench R15 and check the internet for stock results.

This proof you're showing proves absolutely nothing.

Pascal Undervolting topic, get more out of your card with less power!

Why high refreshrate monitors look better even without Freesync/G-sync in one image.
Stutters, framedrops, "lag". How to provide detailed information with your "bottleneck" question, as well as a few solutions.

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