Upgraded to z370 & 8700k but not seeing performance increase

[Gotham1]

Just did my hardware swap and though ran into some issues like not having the cooler connected, I seem to have things in working order though some other things seem a little buggy (will come back to those later). My first concern though is that I don't have the right smbios or maybe its not the right bios setting? I had used the same settings for bios that I had used with my 7700k chip & maximus ix mb (now running a maximus x mb).

My geekbench score is=
Single-Core Score
5392
Multi-Core Score
23565

Any thoughts as to why that might? Currently have smbios set to imac 18,3. Clover configurator still lists that setting as 7700k though which seems wrong..

 

[Lensjocky]

You not too far off. My z370 & 8700k overclocked to 4.8GHz yeilds.
As far as the SMBIOS goes there are no CoffeeLake Macs yet so 18.3 is as close as we get.

 

[Gotham1]

Oh that’s good to know. Planning to overclock to 5ghz so I’m sure that’ll help.

You not too far off. My z370 & 8700k overclocked to 4.8GHz yeilds.

 

[Gotham1]

Think I jumped the gun on the performance issue thing. I did the test right after completing my build. I had a weird feeling about something being off and opened up hwmonitor. Overheating alert! Turns out the random cable I had leftover after my hardware upgrade was the freaking connector for the cpu cooler :slaps face:. Did a test after that which seemed a little better.. then I installed nvram and got my audio working and alas my current geekbench reads-
Single-Core Score
5946
Multi-Core Score
27907