It all started on Saturday. PC worked mostly fine when I wasnt doing anything intensive, however it crashed every time I tried playing a game or something.
After doing some troubleshooting, I ruled out the GPU (booting without it presented the same problems), RAM (I messed around with the sticks), HDD (all hard drive health software presented no issues, chkdsk didnt find anything). I think it's likely not the motherboard given that it's booting just fine, and also not the PSU though I can't prove much for it.
I replaced the thermal paste on the CPU and although it did help a bit, it's still considerably slow, not allowing me to do anything intensive.
Every single monitoring software puts my CPU temp at roughly 100C (yes, Celsius), which I believe is just false because it would have shut down already if that was the case. However, it seems to be throttling itself due to whats apparently a false reading.
I've done a smart scan with Avast, and will run a boot scan when I boot for the next time, though I have little hope of solving my issue through that.
I've run a stress test with my GPU, CPU, and RAM, and all of them passed. However, I intend to rerun the CPU test, and would like some guidance on what software to use for that purpose.
Given Speccy's servers seem to be down, I'll post a snapshot of the summary. If you need any extra information, ask and it will be provided: View: https://i.imgur.com/lwq8ZwH.png
After doing some troubleshooting, I ruled out the GPU (booting without it presented the same problems), RAM (I messed around with the sticks), HDD (all hard drive health software presented no issues, chkdsk didnt find anything). I think it's likely not the motherboard given that it's booting just fine, and also not the PSU though I can't prove much for it.
I replaced the thermal paste on the CPU and although it did help a bit, it's still considerably slow, not allowing me to do anything intensive.
Every single monitoring software puts my CPU temp at roughly 100C (yes, Celsius), which I believe is just false because it would have shut down already if that was the case. However, it seems to be throttling itself due to whats apparently a false reading.
I've done a smart scan with Avast, and will run a boot scan when I boot for the next time, though I have little hope of solving my issue through that.
I've run a stress test with my GPU, CPU, and RAM, and all of them passed. However, I intend to rerun the CPU test, and would like some guidance on what software to use for that purpose.
Given Speccy's servers seem to be down, I'll post a snapshot of the summary. If you need any extra information, ask and it will be provided: View: https://i.imgur.com/lwq8ZwH.png