- Dec 28, 2012
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Heres my current situation, for about a year and a half Ive had a computer I had custom built by www.digitalstorm.com, and completely negleted all tasks that are required to keep a computer running strong, and I definitly missed some.
About 2 weeks ago after installing Far Cry 3, my CPU choked, and my motherboard shut off the computer, (Ive never had anything like this happen before, with this computer or any) so naturaly I was shocked. I turned it on again only to behold that it could only get to the windows startup menu before crashing.
After some quick looking around I discovered it was my CPU overheating(Ive never been a computer expert, hence my getting it built by others), immediatly I did some research and discovered thermal paste was a root cause of many overheating CPUs, so I went and bought some Arctic Silver 5, and carefully reapplied it to my Liquid Cooling system hooked up to the CPU.
The PC ran much longer, about 10 minutes in the desktop before crashing, but still, it crashed. Naturally I was furious, and had it sent to a computer repair shop downtown, obviously I dont think they knew what they were doing, seeing as how they took a day to tell me it was overheating, when I figured it out in 5 minutes.
2 days later they told me that they had been running the computer for 16 hours straight and couldnt seem to get it to overheat at all, this surprised me, seeing as how I couldnt do the opposite before I sent it to them (my theory, and Ive heard this, is that it takes time for the thermal paste to "melt" onto both the heatsink/waterbox and cpu.
I got my computer back friday to discover (because Ive never checked before *hits head on wall*) that my CPU is running on IDLE, and a dangerous 80 degrees celcius, and with any stress, close to 85.
My theory behind this is that the thermal paste managed to barely push the cpu back over the border to where it could function again, but barely.
Now Im stuck, because I dont know whether its the water cooler at fault or whether there is some sort of virus my antivirus (malwarebytes and avg) cant detect :[
I know Ive probably missed some details, make sure to ask me if youre not sure.
Im really sad because I cant even play garry's mod, I had 100 FPS before my CPU choked and now its down to about 20, where its unplayable because of the frameskipping.
If any help can be offered I would be extremely grateful. Thank you in advance! Meanwhile I will continue to try and find my issue.
About 2 weeks ago after installing Far Cry 3, my CPU choked, and my motherboard shut off the computer, (Ive never had anything like this happen before, with this computer or any) so naturaly I was shocked. I turned it on again only to behold that it could only get to the windows startup menu before crashing.
After some quick looking around I discovered it was my CPU overheating(Ive never been a computer expert, hence my getting it built by others), immediatly I did some research and discovered thermal paste was a root cause of many overheating CPUs, so I went and bought some Arctic Silver 5, and carefully reapplied it to my Liquid Cooling system hooked up to the CPU.
The PC ran much longer, about 10 minutes in the desktop before crashing, but still, it crashed. Naturally I was furious, and had it sent to a computer repair shop downtown, obviously I dont think they knew what they were doing, seeing as how they took a day to tell me it was overheating, when I figured it out in 5 minutes.
2 days later they told me that they had been running the computer for 16 hours straight and couldnt seem to get it to overheat at all, this surprised me, seeing as how I couldnt do the opposite before I sent it to them (my theory, and Ive heard this, is that it takes time for the thermal paste to "melt" onto both the heatsink/waterbox and cpu.
I got my computer back friday to discover (because Ive never checked before *hits head on wall*) that my CPU is running on IDLE, and a dangerous 80 degrees celcius, and with any stress, close to 85.
My theory behind this is that the thermal paste managed to barely push the cpu back over the border to where it could function again, but barely.
Now Im stuck, because I dont know whether its the water cooler at fault or whether there is some sort of virus my antivirus (malwarebytes and avg) cant detect :[
I know Ive probably missed some details, make sure to ask me if youre not sure.
Im really sad because I cant even play garry's mod, I had 100 FPS before my CPU choked and now its down to about 20, where its unplayable because of the frameskipping.
If any help can be offered I would be extremely grateful. Thank you in advance! Meanwhile I will continue to try and find my issue.
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