Hello everyone i am new to this particular forum as i have never found myself in a state of angst <<Edited by moderator>>? i have always figured out or diagnosed machines but i have finally come to a crossroad where i am ready to throw my hands up and say finito! i am hoping someone here has had a similar problem and resolved it.
So i have a machine that is a few years old and instead of retiring it and moving on to a new machine i concluded that i could still make it competitive to a degree. the system started with an intel mainboard with the h67 chipset and a socket 1155 2nd gen i3 onboard graphics and 4 gb of ddr3 @1333mhz. and some off brand psu that was rated at 550w.
So i purchcased a 2nd gen i5 2500k , 16gb (4x4) 1333 mhz ddr3 , thermal take 700 watt psu , i dug up my old nvidia tesla c2050 w/ 3gb ddr5 fermi gpu w/ cuda core graphics card , a coolermaster aio liquid cooling unit , and a nzxt mid atx case. i threw it together when all the parts arrived MINUS the thermaltake psu bc it was still going to be another week before it arrived and MINUS the Nvidia Graphics card bc the stock psu couldnt push it.
So i installed a yet older pci x xfx 1g raedon card. all in all the unit perform well in this configuration but didnt have the frame rate i was looking for under gaming with all the settings at the lowest possible settings. im talking like the best i saw was 38 - 48 fps on world of tanks and sub 20's for world of warships , it wouldnt even launch raceroom. i continued to use this config for the next week on world of tanks until my psu arrived. so the day came i installed all of it boot the system fine tune the cpu and the graphics card i launch the same games and i am blown away at the performance of this machine i was actually in awe of how well it was performing! 100 plus fps for both world of tanks at max graphics settings in 720 and 70 -80 fps @ 1080 raceroom at max was 65-70fps these results were more than satisfying .
So after a long night of gaming i noticed the fans laboring and checked the system temps and all is well until i look at the gpu temp 88 degrees c! holy crap TDP is 90 in which i saw it go to 91 a couple of times. this worried me so after doing some research i discover that 88 is slightly higher than normal operating temp for this card and i blow it off.
A couple days go by i come in one evening fire up the pc and start playing 3 or 4 hours go by and im in the middle of a race and my machine freezes up . i try alt tab , 3 finger salute , i try forcing the machine to standby , i try everything i even let the machine sit for 3 to 5 min thinking maybe the machine was focused on lowering the temp and it would stabilize once it reached a safe temp . after a total of about 15 min i force the machine to shutdown by holding down the power button for 10 sec. i give it 5 or 10 min and turn it back on and Nothing. i get power but video , i remove the nvidia card and try using the on board video and NOTHING, i try the xfx card NOTHING, so at this point i am thinking its gotta be the power supply after all the nvidia card pulls roughly 240 - 290 watts alone so maybe it was too much for it .
I purchase a new power supply the following day corsair fully modular 800 watt power supply . i complete the swap and same result NOTHING no video . at this point i get curious about other potential issues like is the mainboard shot or is the mem bad . so i test the mainboard by removing all the ram and powering up the pc and NOTHING no bios beeps no warning alarms nothing. i insert one stick of ram and repeat the process and nothing i manually reset the bios and tried all the above and NOTHING. SO i moved to i guess the board is toast .
I purchase a asus p8h67 m pro for 30 bucks and nothing. . but the trouble is i returned the new power supply bc it was 120 bucks and if didnt fix the problem then i get the money back and spend it on new board whatever. so when the new board was installed i used the thermaltake power supply.
guys i only have 2 other options to change out before this is a brand new machine all around im not trying to do that i have already spent to much money to just walk away from it i could have build a newer unit for far less .
I did however finally decide to put a multimeter on the power supply .. im only getting 11 volts at the 24 pin main supply and 11 volts at the other 12v pins. but in my experience most machines will still function in a reduced performance state . i have never encountered a problem like this . i know it could be the memory and lastly the cpu but i am praying that isnt the issue. i dont have another machine to put the cpu in to test it and i know of no other way
ANY HELP WOULD BE FANTASTIC AND MOST APPRECIATED . IM SORRY ABOUT THE LONG POST BUT I KNOW THAT DETAILS ARE CRUCIAL WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS i just wanted to be as detailed as possible.
So i have a machine that is a few years old and instead of retiring it and moving on to a new machine i concluded that i could still make it competitive to a degree. the system started with an intel mainboard with the h67 chipset and a socket 1155 2nd gen i3 onboard graphics and 4 gb of ddr3 @1333mhz. and some off brand psu that was rated at 550w.
So i purchcased a 2nd gen i5 2500k , 16gb (4x4) 1333 mhz ddr3 , thermal take 700 watt psu , i dug up my old nvidia tesla c2050 w/ 3gb ddr5 fermi gpu w/ cuda core graphics card , a coolermaster aio liquid cooling unit , and a nzxt mid atx case. i threw it together when all the parts arrived MINUS the thermaltake psu bc it was still going to be another week before it arrived and MINUS the Nvidia Graphics card bc the stock psu couldnt push it.
So i installed a yet older pci x xfx 1g raedon card. all in all the unit perform well in this configuration but didnt have the frame rate i was looking for under gaming with all the settings at the lowest possible settings. im talking like the best i saw was 38 - 48 fps on world of tanks and sub 20's for world of warships , it wouldnt even launch raceroom. i continued to use this config for the next week on world of tanks until my psu arrived. so the day came i installed all of it boot the system fine tune the cpu and the graphics card i launch the same games and i am blown away at the performance of this machine i was actually in awe of how well it was performing! 100 plus fps for both world of tanks at max graphics settings in 720 and 70 -80 fps @ 1080 raceroom at max was 65-70fps these results were more than satisfying .
So after a long night of gaming i noticed the fans laboring and checked the system temps and all is well until i look at the gpu temp 88 degrees c! holy crap TDP is 90 in which i saw it go to 91 a couple of times. this worried me so after doing some research i discover that 88 is slightly higher than normal operating temp for this card and i blow it off.
A couple days go by i come in one evening fire up the pc and start playing 3 or 4 hours go by and im in the middle of a race and my machine freezes up . i try alt tab , 3 finger salute , i try forcing the machine to standby , i try everything i even let the machine sit for 3 to 5 min thinking maybe the machine was focused on lowering the temp and it would stabilize once it reached a safe temp . after a total of about 15 min i force the machine to shutdown by holding down the power button for 10 sec. i give it 5 or 10 min and turn it back on and Nothing. i get power but video , i remove the nvidia card and try using the on board video and NOTHING, i try the xfx card NOTHING, so at this point i am thinking its gotta be the power supply after all the nvidia card pulls roughly 240 - 290 watts alone so maybe it was too much for it .
I purchase a new power supply the following day corsair fully modular 800 watt power supply . i complete the swap and same result NOTHING no video . at this point i get curious about other potential issues like is the mainboard shot or is the mem bad . so i test the mainboard by removing all the ram and powering up the pc and NOTHING no bios beeps no warning alarms nothing. i insert one stick of ram and repeat the process and nothing i manually reset the bios and tried all the above and NOTHING. SO i moved to i guess the board is toast .
I purchase a asus p8h67 m pro for 30 bucks and nothing. . but the trouble is i returned the new power supply bc it was 120 bucks and if didnt fix the problem then i get the money back and spend it on new board whatever. so when the new board was installed i used the thermaltake power supply.
guys i only have 2 other options to change out before this is a brand new machine all around im not trying to do that i have already spent to much money to just walk away from it i could have build a newer unit for far less .
I did however finally decide to put a multimeter on the power supply .. im only getting 11 volts at the 24 pin main supply and 11 volts at the other 12v pins. but in my experience most machines will still function in a reduced performance state . i have never encountered a problem like this . i know it could be the memory and lastly the cpu but i am praying that isnt the issue. i dont have another machine to put the cpu in to test it and i know of no other way
ANY HELP WOULD BE FANTASTIC AND MOST APPRECIATED . IM SORRY ABOUT THE LONG POST BUT I KNOW THAT DETAILS ARE CRUCIAL WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS i just wanted to be as detailed as possible.
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