Computer damage diagnosis

[dustin3211]

I won't go into too much detail on how I damaged the computer other than I went out of town for the weekend and my heater shut off. I live in Michigan so my entire house was an icecube when i got home. Less than 10 degrees Fahrenheit within the house.

I waited until my house warmed up and started my computers.

The computer in question is my stream computer with an Elgato HD60 Pro. I thought everything was fine with the computer until I started streaming. I get slight chops when using the screen capture. The first thing I did was try to actually play a game on the computer and I receive major chops from video, like 5-10 frames per second. When capturing with the Elgato I was getting a frame loss every few seconds.

The CPU is under 100% load on each core, and stays at 100% load. The CPU is a FX-8350 Vishera (AMD). The CPU is not getting hot at all, staying around 40C.

The GPU stays around 40% load and is sitting around 40C also.

At first glance I thought it would be the GPU but its not hitting heavy load and isnt getting hot.

My first step was going to be to replace the CPU with another identical CPU, they only run about 120 USD.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to diagnose this before I start dropping dollars I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[alceryes]

Temp reading with AMD CPU's can be a crap shoot at times. Depending on what sensors your board has it could display a temp well below the 'threshold' when, in fact, it is hitting the threshold and throttling. Maybe your CPU cooler popped off its hinge because of the cold? I would check that first.
You can also download and run open hardware monitor (check the logs) to see if your CPU is downclocking.

 

[dustin3211]

Ill look into your suggestions when I get home from work and test that. Ill reply an update later, thanks!