PC freezing and in-game FPS drop.

Whispersd

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Hello community,

This is my first post here so I'll try to be as much helpful as possible. First of all my specs are:

FX8350 - 4.1Ghz
Sapphire HD7770
Kingston HyperX Genesis - 2x4GB/1600Mhz
840 Evo - 120GB
WD Green 1TB
Crosair CX750 -750w PSU

So I mainly play League of Legends, ArcheAge, Tera, Archlord 2 and some TF2 when I'm bored. The problem I have is the so called "Slow-motion" effect, which I get mainly in League. Its basically durring team-fights (when all 10 players are together on the screen) I get FPS drop which last 2-5 seconds. My FPS drop from 60 (capped) to as low as 20 which makes is really hard to play, even though is for couple of seconds. I was using max settings in-game, but after this problem started I lower them a bit (and it still persists). So, there are 2 problems actually the slow-mo and a freezing effect - which as most of you probably know the pc just freeze, and I have to reboot in order to start using it again.

Said that in the last couple of days I'm getting every day slow-mo in League and so far my pc froze 2 times, one during League and the other during a normal browsing. I've contacted the League support and they have been useless so far.

All my drivers are up to date (pre-installed them several times!), temps are fine, voltages too, I have physically checked the graphic card, remove and clean it 2 times. One thing that come to my mind is earlier today the HWmonitor gave me this:
http://gyazo.com/c7bafe2d33a8b6aff2e01143422fd659

The core temp jumped to 255, but the socket is on 45 degrees. I'm thinking this might be just wrong reading, since I've encountered similar issues before. My build is 2 years old. I have changed the thermal paste one time when I installed the Hyper412 which would be in a year in the past.

As I'm writing this my pc just did it again, hopefully the post was still here when I turned it on. This time the monitor went black and the fans started to be very loud. I really don't know what is wrong.

Any help is much appreciated!
Regards Whispersd
 
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The screen going black and fans spinning up (do you mean case fans, CPU fans, GPU fans?) sounds like a GPU issue if it is the GPU fan spinning up. It could also be a PSU issue, such as a loose cable or a failing PSU.

Download Unigine Heaven and let it run for a while. If you get crashes while it is running, that should help narrow it down some.

Also, while playing games, do you have...

Whispersd

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Hey there, yeah I'm starting to think it might be from the CPU instead of the GPU. Anyway I suppose you should be fine with your 550w, although I don't know your full specs.
 

frag06

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The screen going black and fans spinning up (do you mean case fans, CPU fans, GPU fans?) sounds like a GPU issue if it is the GPU fan spinning up. It could also be a PSU issue, such as a loose cable or a failing PSU.

Download Unigine Heaven and let it run for a while. If you get crashes while it is running, that should help narrow it down some.

Also, while playing games, do you have any other programs open?
 
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