- Mar 5, 2016
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Hi Everybody,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask / share.
Last year I discovered that a childhood game had been made in a modern version and realized that I desperately needed a platform that could run it. After salvaging my decade-old (seriously) tower, all that was usable was the psu and cabinet, so I had a shop install components that would meet both the minimum specs as well as my limited budget. That meant:
Old cabinet + old PSU 400W
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+
8 GB DDR3
AMD APU A10-7700K 4 MB FM2+
SSD 120GB Kingston V300 SATA3
A nice solution that allowed me to play my game, keep win7, upgrade hardware in the future and stay within both budget and power capacity. Happy Days
Now christmas came and with my savings I made the following upgrades (my first ever build):
Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini-ITX cabinet
MSI GTX970 4GB OC
Cooler Master 750W PSU
So now everything should be amazing ....... but its not. It works, but it is extremely noisy as the CPU/APU is running CRAZY hot! I used a program named Speccy to check and it frequently reports temperatures on the CPU of more than 100 degrees celsius!! That can't be right??
For sure the fan is running because I can hear (and see) it running like a hoover. I dont understand. I never took the cooler unit a part from the MB when I transferred to the new cabinet and with the new and dedicated GPU, the old APU should be doing much less work, right? There is even a lot better airflow and a massive 120mm fan in the new cabinet. All drivers and Norton are up-to-date. All software is legal.
Sorry if I am sounding like a complete rookie, but what am I missing?
Thanks
Soren
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask / share.
Last year I discovered that a childhood game had been made in a modern version and realized that I desperately needed a platform that could run it. After salvaging my decade-old (seriously) tower, all that was usable was the psu and cabinet, so I had a shop install components that would meet both the minimum specs as well as my limited budget. That meant:
Old cabinet + old PSU 400W
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+
8 GB DDR3
AMD APU A10-7700K 4 MB FM2+
SSD 120GB Kingston V300 SATA3
A nice solution that allowed me to play my game, keep win7, upgrade hardware in the future and stay within both budget and power capacity. Happy Days
Now christmas came and with my savings I made the following upgrades (my first ever build):
Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini-ITX cabinet
MSI GTX970 4GB OC
Cooler Master 750W PSU
So now everything should be amazing ....... but its not. It works, but it is extremely noisy as the CPU/APU is running CRAZY hot! I used a program named Speccy to check and it frequently reports temperatures on the CPU of more than 100 degrees celsius!! That can't be right??
For sure the fan is running because I can hear (and see) it running like a hoover. I dont understand. I never took the cooler unit a part from the MB when I transferred to the new cabinet and with the new and dedicated GPU, the old APU should be doing much less work, right? There is even a lot better airflow and a massive 120mm fan in the new cabinet. All drivers and Norton are up-to-date. All software is legal.
Sorry if I am sounding like a complete rookie, but what am I missing?
Thanks
Soren
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