Hi guys, so after making sure the fan is very much secured and spinning, there is a big improvement however it still idles at 70 degrees and is being throttled at 90 in-game. Do you suggest I switch out my CPU cooler?
Yeah these hot CPU temps are under low load, even after applying thermal paste and making sure the fan and heatsink were properly attatched. Here is the performance from a cutscene a somewhat demanding game (Just Cause 3). Really bad and it took me about 15 minutes to take these screenshots just...
PC specs are in the bottom, this is a PCSpecialist PC which is 6/7 years old now apart from the SSD boot drive which I added in a year ago.
Issues:
1) Over the past week upon starting a new process such a opening a new tab/window in Firefox or opening a new program or using the windows search...
Fixed the issue, my cpu was running way too hot (checked with openhardwaremonitor) 90 degrees celcius just on the desktop, then after applying thermal paste and reapplying the fan it went down to 40 and everything is working as normal :).
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help diagnose issue with my computer or a way to check for the issue. My PC is 5 years old (all drivers up to date) and has recently developed issues. A few months ago my computer could run most games and programs smoothly probably the most powerful being GTA...