I am running a AMD Bulldozer FX-6100 AM3+ 3.3 GHZ 6core CPU in a MSI 760GM-P23 FX Motherboard, with a ASUS ROG StriX GTX960 graphics card running Win 10 64 bit. I used a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooling System for the CPU heatsink.
It’s been a long time since I rebuilt my PC, the build I made about 9 years ago has been great, but now getting a bit slow so I went for a cheap upgrade. I bought the above collection of parts from another working PC as a set and have rebuilt using them. The system is working, and I can run /some/ games without issue however I have been experiencing lock ups that can only be resolved by pulling the power on the box. ( the screen goes black, tower fans stay on and the system is unresponsive to even the tower power button) Anecdotally I was only getting this while playing Fortnite so assumed there was a problem in just that game but now other games are affected so I have investigated further.
I used the AMD Overdrive tool to capture these details while the PC was running. That Thermal Margin figure /never/ leaves the large negative number, and I understand that means my CPU thinks it is running too hot and is throttling down:-
View: https://i.imgur.com/XSAHnsA.png
The only time I see a non negative figure is after rebooting the system:-
View: https://i.imgur.com/w1Xicgr.png
Even then, that seems to be running pretty hot when idle 45/50 degrees if I am reading the stats on the left correctly .
I’d appreciate some steps to follow to troubleshoot this.
I am currently planning on opening the case and verifying that all the fans are running, specifically the CPU cooling fan , although I’d expect temps to be much higher if that fan wasn’t running at all.
I was next going to take off the heatsink and reapply it with some different thermal paste. ( How do I clean up the old stuff?)
What else should I look at or check for please?
It’s been a long time since I rebuilt my PC, the build I made about 9 years ago has been great, but now getting a bit slow so I went for a cheap upgrade. I bought the above collection of parts from another working PC as a set and have rebuilt using them. The system is working, and I can run /some/ games without issue however I have been experiencing lock ups that can only be resolved by pulling the power on the box. ( the screen goes black, tower fans stay on and the system is unresponsive to even the tower power button) Anecdotally I was only getting this while playing Fortnite so assumed there was a problem in just that game but now other games are affected so I have investigated further.
I used the AMD Overdrive tool to capture these details while the PC was running. That Thermal Margin figure /never/ leaves the large negative number, and I understand that means my CPU thinks it is running too hot and is throttling down:-
View: https://i.imgur.com/XSAHnsA.png
The only time I see a non negative figure is after rebooting the system:-
View: https://i.imgur.com/w1Xicgr.png
Even then, that seems to be running pretty hot when idle 45/50 degrees if I am reading the stats on the left correctly .
I’d appreciate some steps to follow to troubleshoot this.
I am currently planning on opening the case and verifying that all the fans are running, specifically the CPU cooling fan , although I’d expect temps to be much higher if that fan wasn’t running at all.
I was next going to take off the heatsink and reapply it with some different thermal paste. ( How do I clean up the old stuff?)
What else should I look at or check for please?