Bought a used pc trying to get it working

harosoul

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Posting this for a friend of mine. He bought a pc off of someone on craigslist. Here are the specs.

Mobo: gigabyte 970a-ds3p

CPU:AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor

Ram: 8gb tiger skill 1 stick

Gpu: gtx 750 ti

PSU: Corsair CS Series CS750M

HDD: 500gb

There are a few problems he has ran into so far. His cpu has been running hot 44c idle and 80c+ while gaming. His harddrive has also been running at 100% idle which shouldn't be right for a normal system?He tried playing csgo on it but it shut itself off in the middle of his first game so it didn't last very long. He doesn't blue screen or anything it just shuts down. I'm assuming its the cpu over heating. Should he replace the cooler or is it not configured correctly?
 
PSU will do you fine actually, but if your CPU is getting too hot, you might want to check to see if the thermal paste is old and crusted up, also, if you have a stock cooler, you need to upgrade to a brand cooler, AMD's stock coolers aren't generally the best.