Recent content by Forest_Penguin

first of all use a program like speedfan to check temps: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php If you have both an intake and an exhaust fan on your case that should be fine. The problem is probably the CPU, it's normal for a stock cooled CPU to reach 70 ish degrees under heavy loads like GTA V...

Sort of, games are getting more and more multithreaded, just look at destiny 2 which will support upwards of 8 cores. However if you have a z170 or z270 board you should get a 7700k so you can overclock it and take full advantage of your monitor, if you habe a B or H class board you could...

Sorry to say, it sounds like your PSU fried something when it died, RAM and motherboard IO doesn't just spontaniously die, especially not if it's that new. I would not use the system anymore for the tyme being, if you have other hardware lying around I would try testing the GPU just to make sure...

That's because the integrated GPU on the CPU just isn't powerful enough, for those types of games you need an discreet graphics card, if you're on a budget something like an RX 550 or GTX 1050 will be enough to atleast run the games at a playable framerate.

If you're PSU used a detachable 2 or 3 pin standard power lead try replacing that, otherwise it sounds like a dead PSU or socket. how old is the laptop? Do you have the ability to make a replacement?

I collect old PC games and to be able to play some of those games I need old PCs. I've recently built a slot 1 and a socket 737 PC and that all went fine. Earlier this week I thought it would be fun to build a q6600 pc because I owned most of the parts. The first PC I biult: MSI P6N SLI V2...