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I just had some concern about my new pc. I brought a MSI infinite x11 a month ago, so let's say a beast. It was after having brought and refund two Lenovo legion t7 who gave me blue screens of death on top of each other a few days after turning them on. But that's another story.
I am really happy with it, and so far it was doing really fine. After the bad experiences I ahd with Lenovo, I took it easy and limited my use of this rig to two online games, quite old (world of warcraft and For Honor). I did use MSI center quite a lot to monitor use on load, but with my poor knowledge of PC's I am not sure that there was a problem before the recent events.
And here we go : like two days ago, when playing, I noticed that my gpu was between 80 to 100% use and my cpu hanging around 80C, with spikes to 90-92 which made my fans run VERY high and VERY loud, sound that made me realize there was a problem. This was on WOW. Then, I noticed my CPU temp was also reaching 80+, with spikes to 90+ that made the same effect, but without the GPU usage, on For Honor.
It happenned once and then, it was kind of stable at 70-80 C, with the same GPU usage, for the night. But today things got wild. I made a bit of testing and the problem was still there, with my CPU reaching 100 C on For Honor. Those are old games that shouldn't do any problem to high end pc's, but still it was killing my CPU. So after a bit of searching, it was the fps cap that caused all this. Or his non existence. After capping fps to +-60, everything went fine now. As far as I understand my cpu was trying to give way too much ressources on apps that didn't needed it. well, it was easy.
HOWEVER
I can't help but to wonder what happened. I dont't remember if the temp were running that high before, but if it did heard that kind of noise or the temp bar going red on msi center like this, I would certainly have noticed. But why would he suddenly go wild like this since I didn't put a fps cap before ? So my questions :
- Did I hurt my pc by letting him burn out the hardware like this for nothing ? That would explain why it didn't overheat at this point before, like, as it is a really good pc, maybe he just holded up until something got damaged, making him actually overheat ? Idk if it work like this though, but I just don't understand why he would start having problems without any specific action taken or installed programs.
- Why would he suddenly overheat for a fps cap problem if I did not have any problem before ? I mean, it was like overnight. on day it was fine, and then it started to got fiever.
- He didn't shut down nor close any game, and has never been in overclocking, so despite the heat problem, I can only assume that no thermal protection has been activated, and then no real damage have been done, right ? Or is it possible that by running at like 70-80 for a month, that would have dried the thermal past, what would have then made possible the spike to 100C ?
I didn't opened it to tcheck since on a one month pc, it seem very unlikely.
So mostly to know if those random overheating problems and a potential bad use for a month could have done damage to it. I am a bit paranoïed here but it would really be a pain in the ass if I damaged it by not knowing to recognize that there was a problem.
I just had some concern about my new pc. I brought a MSI infinite x11 a month ago, so let's say a beast. It was after having brought and refund two Lenovo legion t7 who gave me blue screens of death on top of each other a few days after turning them on. But that's another story.
I am really happy with it, and so far it was doing really fine. After the bad experiences I ahd with Lenovo, I took it easy and limited my use of this rig to two online games, quite old (world of warcraft and For Honor). I did use MSI center quite a lot to monitor use on load, but with my poor knowledge of PC's I am not sure that there was a problem before the recent events.
And here we go : like two days ago, when playing, I noticed that my gpu was between 80 to 100% use and my cpu hanging around 80C, with spikes to 90-92 which made my fans run VERY high and VERY loud, sound that made me realize there was a problem. This was on WOW. Then, I noticed my CPU temp was also reaching 80+, with spikes to 90+ that made the same effect, but without the GPU usage, on For Honor.
It happenned once and then, it was kind of stable at 70-80 C, with the same GPU usage, for the night. But today things got wild. I made a bit of testing and the problem was still there, with my CPU reaching 100 C on For Honor. Those are old games that shouldn't do any problem to high end pc's, but still it was killing my CPU. So after a bit of searching, it was the fps cap that caused all this. Or his non existence. After capping fps to +-60, everything went fine now. As far as I understand my cpu was trying to give way too much ressources on apps that didn't needed it. well, it was easy.
HOWEVER
I can't help but to wonder what happened. I dont't remember if the temp were running that high before, but if it did heard that kind of noise or the temp bar going red on msi center like this, I would certainly have noticed. But why would he suddenly go wild like this since I didn't put a fps cap before ? So my questions :
- Did I hurt my pc by letting him burn out the hardware like this for nothing ? That would explain why it didn't overheat at this point before, like, as it is a really good pc, maybe he just holded up until something got damaged, making him actually overheat ? Idk if it work like this though, but I just don't understand why he would start having problems without any specific action taken or installed programs.
- Why would he suddenly overheat for a fps cap problem if I did not have any problem before ? I mean, it was like overnight. on day it was fine, and then it started to got fiever.
- He didn't shut down nor close any game, and has never been in overclocking, so despite the heat problem, I can only assume that no thermal protection has been activated, and then no real damage have been done, right ? Or is it possible that by running at like 70-80 for a month, that would have dried the thermal past, what would have then made possible the spike to 100C ?
I didn't opened it to tcheck since on a one month pc, it seem very unlikely.
So mostly to know if those random overheating problems and a potential bad use for a month could have done damage to it. I am a bit paranoïed here but it would really be a pain in the ass if I damaged it by not knowing to recognize that there was a problem.
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