So, yesterday I bought an used PC. Nabbed it for only $150 with a monitor. I don't know how old it is, but I still wanted to see what I can do with it.
Okay, the PC works absolutely fine if I'm not playing a game. It's fairly smooth and silent. In terms of that, I'm satisfied with it. A new copy of Windows 10 is installed, it's virus-free. However... It just keeps freezing minutes in gameplay of the three games I tested - Euro Truck Simulator 2 (which freezed in only like 5 minutes (high settings)), Counter-Strike Source (a fairly old game; it froze in like half an hour (high settings)) and Apex Legends (which suddenly restarts the PC, no error or anything). It becomes pretty loud at the point when it freezes. I'm forced to reset the PC. Here are my specs, as well as the temperature of the components when the PC froze:
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 265 Sapphire Dual-X 2GB (froze at 71°C)
CPU: AMD FX 6300 Six-Cores 3.50ghz (froze at 45°C)
Motherboard: Gigabyte AM4
PSU: Cooler Master Thunder 500W
RAM: 12GB DDR3
There are fans on the side and the back of the tower.
Anybody knows what's the problem? I heard something that the PSU is often the issue, so it might be that? I checked the voltages using hwinfo and the voltages seem fine. The temperatures of the components also seem fine, though the GPU spiked fairly quickly to 71°C.
I was really psyched about getting this PC and it really hurts my heart to see it not working properly. Any help is highly appreciated.
Okay, the PC works absolutely fine if I'm not playing a game. It's fairly smooth and silent. In terms of that, I'm satisfied with it. A new copy of Windows 10 is installed, it's virus-free. However... It just keeps freezing minutes in gameplay of the three games I tested - Euro Truck Simulator 2 (which freezed in only like 5 minutes (high settings)), Counter-Strike Source (a fairly old game; it froze in like half an hour (high settings)) and Apex Legends (which suddenly restarts the PC, no error or anything). It becomes pretty loud at the point when it freezes. I'm forced to reset the PC. Here are my specs, as well as the temperature of the components when the PC froze:
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 265 Sapphire Dual-X 2GB (froze at 71°C)
CPU: AMD FX 6300 Six-Cores 3.50ghz (froze at 45°C)
Motherboard: Gigabyte AM4
PSU: Cooler Master Thunder 500W
RAM: 12GB DDR3
There are fans on the side and the back of the tower.
Anybody knows what's the problem? I heard something that the PSU is often the issue, so it might be that? I checked the voltages using hwinfo and the voltages seem fine. The temperatures of the components also seem fine, though the GPU spiked fairly quickly to 71°C.
I was really psyched about getting this PC and it really hurts my heart to see it not working properly. Any help is highly appreciated.