Hello everyone.
Exactly one week ago I tried playing PUBG on my computer (which I have done for a long time without problems) but I experienced a lot of lag and the sound was all weird (this game worked fine just one or two days earlier). I tried some other games but I had the same problems in all of them. It took me some time to figure out that my CPU temperatures were constantly maxed out at 100˚C.
I opened up my computer to check if my CPU liquid cooler was working by feeling the two tubes going to and from my CPU. One of them was warm while the other was cold, leading me to the conclusion that it was working fine. A few days later I cleaned both the CPU and the heatsink before re-applying thermal paste.
I turned on my computer and surprisingly got some errors about my graphics driver which I think I fixed by reinstalling it. The temperatures got better, but not good enough. Idle temperatures are about 45˚C, while watching YouTube and such (on Chrome) they are about 60˚C and while playing games (PUBG for this reference) they slowly increase to 95˚-100˚C ish in about 2-3 minutes. After these 2-3 minutes the entire computer freezes for another 2 minutes, before giving med the blue screen error with the code "dpc_watchdog_violation". After this, the computer reboots.
I'm not sure if this is at all related to the issue, but I have a triple monitor setup where two of them are connected directly to the GPU and the third is connected directly to the motherboard. The third monitor is not my main, but it is the only monitor showing the blue screen error.
Summed up:
My cpu was overheating, I re-applied thermal paste, it is still overheating, just not as quickly, and it is now giving me a BSOD error with the code "dpc_watchdog_violation".
These are my specs:
OS: Windows 8.1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2 GB
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz 8GB
SSD: Kingston 240GB
Exactly one week ago I tried playing PUBG on my computer (which I have done for a long time without problems) but I experienced a lot of lag and the sound was all weird (this game worked fine just one or two days earlier). I tried some other games but I had the same problems in all of them. It took me some time to figure out that my CPU temperatures were constantly maxed out at 100˚C.
I opened up my computer to check if my CPU liquid cooler was working by feeling the two tubes going to and from my CPU. One of them was warm while the other was cold, leading me to the conclusion that it was working fine. A few days later I cleaned both the CPU and the heatsink before re-applying thermal paste.
I turned on my computer and surprisingly got some errors about my graphics driver which I think I fixed by reinstalling it. The temperatures got better, but not good enough. Idle temperatures are about 45˚C, while watching YouTube and such (on Chrome) they are about 60˚C and while playing games (PUBG for this reference) they slowly increase to 95˚-100˚C ish in about 2-3 minutes. After these 2-3 minutes the entire computer freezes for another 2 minutes, before giving med the blue screen error with the code "dpc_watchdog_violation". After this, the computer reboots.
I'm not sure if this is at all related to the issue, but I have a triple monitor setup where two of them are connected directly to the GPU and the third is connected directly to the motherboard. The third monitor is not my main, but it is the only monitor showing the blue screen error.
Summed up:
My cpu was overheating, I re-applied thermal paste, it is still overheating, just not as quickly, and it is now giving me a BSOD error with the code "dpc_watchdog_violation".
These are my specs:
OS: Windows 8.1
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2 GB
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz 8GB
SSD: Kingston 240GB