I built myself a nice little gaming computer about a year and a half ago, and it's been working great ever since with very little problems, with most of them just being human error or something stupid.
Yet, about 3 months ago I noticed it starting going abnormally slow, freezing and overall being unstable. I then found out that my main HDD's "S.M.A.R.T." readings were absolutely abysmal, so I purchased a new one and re-installed Windows. It stopped freezing up, but it was still abnormally slow.
I put up with that for a bit, until it just turned off while playing Garry's Mod.
My first suspicion was a power surge since we get a lot of those with our cheap, rural power company.
I had called it a day after that, and when I went go turn it off for the night by flicking the little power switch in the back, I noticed that it was VERY hot. I am aware that they tend to run under quite a bit of heat as most computer parts do, but this was hot enough to make me actually flinch back in quite a bit of pain, the fan still works and all so this didn't seem right to me.
So far, I'm able to Skype, browse the internet and do pretty much everything else. However, when it comes to games like Garry's Mod and GTA 4, it just up and dies after an hour or two.
My specs are:
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3
GPU - EVGA GeForce 650 TI
RAM - G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (Two sticks)
CPU - AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor
PSU - Kingwin ABT-650MM (I think I spent like $40 on the thing)
I really hope you guys can help confirm my suspicions, before I go blowing nearly $120 on something that may or may not work.
Thanks.
-PotonForry
Yet, about 3 months ago I noticed it starting going abnormally slow, freezing and overall being unstable. I then found out that my main HDD's "S.M.A.R.T." readings were absolutely abysmal, so I purchased a new one and re-installed Windows. It stopped freezing up, but it was still abnormally slow.
I put up with that for a bit, until it just turned off while playing Garry's Mod.
My first suspicion was a power surge since we get a lot of those with our cheap, rural power company.
I had called it a day after that, and when I went go turn it off for the night by flicking the little power switch in the back, I noticed that it was VERY hot. I am aware that they tend to run under quite a bit of heat as most computer parts do, but this was hot enough to make me actually flinch back in quite a bit of pain, the fan still works and all so this didn't seem right to me.
So far, I'm able to Skype, browse the internet and do pretty much everything else. However, when it comes to games like Garry's Mod and GTA 4, it just up and dies after an hour or two.
My specs are:
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3
GPU - EVGA GeForce 650 TI
RAM - G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (Two sticks)
CPU - AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor
PSU - Kingwin ABT-650MM (I think I spent like $40 on the thing)
I really hope you guys can help confirm my suspicions, before I go blowing nearly $120 on something that may or may not work.
Thanks.
-PotonForry