High Core & GPU Temp causing screen freeze

[yusukechannn]

Hey all,

So I have a computer that has been freezing (screen-wise) with any intensive streaming or skype. I have replaced all the parts of this computer at least once with the exception of the motherboard which makes my prime suspect the mobo.

Anyways I recently got HW monitor and the values are similar to what follows with one twitch stream on source 4K:
Temp 1 & 2, 35-45C idle, 35-70C active
Temp 3 (GPU?) 40C idle, up to 101C active
Fan 1 & 2 on mobo show no problems.
Processor 30C idle, 87C active
hard drives are within 20-30C idle and active
GPU fans (both 0 RPM and 0% control even though fans are actively spinning)

I have the following set up with a double monitor:
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Monitors are SSG 4K 28" & ASUS 24"

The above values were after applying thermal paste (Formula 5) and cleaning out the computer. I believe the heat sink is a little loose and will have to recheck that again later.

The values prior to cleaning and reapplying thermal paste were similar with a few exceptions:
AMD processor temp nearly 30-40C up from before
Temp 2 on mobo never went above 50C from before

These are very preliminary results as I got HW monitor today; however, I am certain that this screen freezing and GPU/CPU temp increases are due to a reason besides GPU hardware or cooling. What are the chances that it is the motherboard or its sensors that are defective? I believe my mobo is pretty old to begin with.

Any answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Lutfij]

Are you sure your BIOS is up to date? It could be possible that the drivers for you system namely the chipset drivers may be the root cause of your problem(s) alongside your GPU drivers. Download the latest chipset drivers from AMD and from Nvidia using DDU. If you're on the latest Nvidia drivers then revert to one(or two) prior and see if it resolves the matter.

Back in the days AMD's catalyst drivers were known to break perfectly functioning devices such as APU systems as well as high end GPU's. I'm one of those users where the Omega drivers gave me a sigh of relief after launch though it was only until the launch of drivers later in 2015 that fixed the problem(BSOD galore).

Rule out your ram as the faulty one by running memtest86 for 10 passes. If any errors occur while leading upto and completing pass#10 then the error is within your modules or the motherboard slots. Speaking of which you didn't include the memory, PSU and HDD/SSD and your case (since you speak of high temps) in your specs as well as your OS.