Recent content by Marty9231

It turned out that the problem (somehow) seems to have been windows/driver/harddrive related. I reformatted my harddrive, reinstalled everything and it runs flawlessly. Benchmarks are better, but still a bit below average. I guess I just have a below average unit of my CPU.

https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/freezer-13.html This is the HSF I am using. I recently upgraded from the stock cooler because I wanted to try overclocking my CPU, but then I found out about the problems. The thermal paste is very new, and temperatures dropped from about 60C to about 50C under full...

Hello everyone, For a while now, I've been noticing some pretty severe problems with my computer. Most importantly, while playing games, my games would freeze momentarily every few seconds (irregularly). Some of the freezes are short, some are longer. The longer freezes are also accompanied by...

I tried unplugging everything I wasn't using (like disc drive, a hard drive, a few USB cables) and I closed every non-essential program or process that was running. The result was a smooth game and no performance drops. I still need to test if the performance stays like this if I only reduce...

I have rechecked my cpu temperature, for good measure. It turns out that <70 was the temperature on the stock cooler before I replaced it with my current cooler. At full load, temperatures using my current cooler do not exceed 50 degrees. Is there a way I can test my PSU for being bad? Perhaps...

It has been suggested before that temperature was an issue, however after doing some research I was convinced that 70 was more than fine. Some overclock guides recommended staying under 90 or so. Still, I will do some temperature tests later today, it's worth a shot. I am confused though. My...

My PSU is a 900W unit that I got many years ago. Its not a-grade but has always done its job. RAM does sound like it might be an issue, but the thing I'm wondering is why performance fluctuates so heavily rather than just being bad in general. Wouldn't a lack of memory cause consistently low...

Hello, I have recently started experiencing some fairly bad performance issues in games, namely Overwatch and Battlefield 1. I've run countless benchmarks and tools to keep checks on my system performance while playing games and I have found conflicting results. For example, CPU-Z has a...

Right, so I forgot to list the things I've tried so far: - Tried different monitor (same type of cable) - Tried it on the TV with HDMI (worked, so we assumed it was the port that broke) - Switched monitors to one with HDMI, didn't work, so we started looking into the RAM. - Found out sometimes...

Hello, To provide some background information, I will explain what happened to 'cause' the problem in the first place: I was on vacation with my parents (it's their computer, by the way) and prior to that we took out all the plugs of the computers just in case. When we came back, all that was...