Helping a friend...

[Hozza]

So a friend of mine has an ageing PC but isn't an avid gamer so never spends any money on it, I out of the goodness of my heart I gave him an old ATi HD5870 to replace his HD4550, problem is his Windows Experience Index for his CPU & memory has dropped since fitting the 5870....

CPU was 6.2 now 5.1
Memory was 6.3 now 6.0

Also when running the valley benchmark I can hear the fan on the GPU fluctuating in speed even if I set it to one speed in afterburner....

Can anyone shed any light as to why?

PC Spec:
Intel core 2 duo E6750
ASUS P5G41IT-M motherboard
4GB Corsair xms3 1333Mhz
ATi HD 5870 1GB
64GB Vertex 4 SSD
250GB Seagate HDD
PSU Tagan 500 watt

 

[Gregster]

I seriously dislike Windows experience and find it inaccurate. What was his old GPU? What score does he get in Valley with the OcUK preset run?

It might pay to do a CMOS reset as well. And make sure the latest BIOS is on the motherboard.

 

[meldarthx]

most likely the last time it was ran was when it was first put together so yes windows experience index after a time does lower....

 

[Diddums x]

I seriously dislike Windows experience and find it inaccurate. What was his old GPU? What score does he get in Valley with the OcUK preset run?

It might pay to do a CMOS reset as well. And make sure the latest BIOS is on the motherboard.

Heh, when I had three 290s in my old system with 16gigglebytes of rams and a 4770k, I didn't even break a windows experience of 6 because I had an old platter drive in my PC.

 

[ED209]

yeah the experience software goes by the lowest scoring bit of hardware

do a clear cmos and run it again, see what happens

 

[Gregster]

My 3930K at 5.1Ghz wouldn't get me the highest score on the CPU (7.1?)

 

[Rusty0611]

Get a 5930K then newb

 

[Hozza]

I ran it before putting the 5870 in so I know the drop is an issue created by replacing the GPU.

Valley on ExtremeHD scored a surprising 1163, but his monitor is only 1600x900

It is the most recent BIOS

If I'm honest I'm more concerned about the fan fluctuating because it seems like a power issue...

 

[Gregster]

I ran it before putting the 5870 in so I know the drop is an issue created by replacing the GPU.

Valley on ExtremeHD scored a surprising 1163, but his monitor is only 1600x900

It is the most recent BIOS

If I'm honest I'm more concerned about the fan fluctuating because it seems like a power issue...

Well a 5870 should draw a max of 200W, so make sure he has a decent PSU. I would think the driver could be the issue with the GPU, so try a different driver to check.

Get a 5930K then newb

5960X or gtfo

I am going to hang onto this chip for as long as poss in truth. From what DX12 is looking like, I could well be set for quite a while, so long as games support it more than not.