- Oct 31, 2012
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Well last November I put together my first build and all was well until around Christmas when it started freezing while playing games and resulted in me having to turn it off by holding the power button down.
Later I was watching the temps with HWMonitor and it was getting up to like 100C. Then I downloaded coretemp and it gave much more believable temps and showed it getting around 70C which I assumed was quite hot. Then I noticed my cpu was running at 3.9 GHz instead of 3.6 so I went to the bios and disabled amd turbo core which brought my temps down a good amount. I wasn't doing to much heavy gaming but when I downloaded Assassin's Creed 2 while playing for like 40 minutes it crashed again and then again when playing l4d2 (It crashed while sitting at 69C for 10 minutes). So then I opened it up and used some compressed air to blow out the heat sink and there was a ton of dust inside. Afterwards while playing minecraft they hottest it got was about 43C instead of 65C. And it hasn't crashed since (but I'm still worried).
On a side note when I disabled amd turbo core it fixed a problem with my boot speed, before it would sit at the part where it says windows before the colorful balls would come up and swirl around. And now it brings up the fancy lights within 2 seconds of being on the screen.
So I'm just wondering if you guys think my crashing/freezing problems are from the cpu getting too hot. Thanks
Specs:
CPU: amd a8-5600k
MOBO: asrockfm2a75-dgs
PSU: Rosewill Fortress 550watt 80 plus platinum certified
MEMORY: Corsair 8gb (2 x 4gb) DDR3 1600
GPU: None (the cpu has a integrated graphics chip)
Later I was watching the temps with HWMonitor and it was getting up to like 100C. Then I downloaded coretemp and it gave much more believable temps and showed it getting around 70C which I assumed was quite hot. Then I noticed my cpu was running at 3.9 GHz instead of 3.6 so I went to the bios and disabled amd turbo core which brought my temps down a good amount. I wasn't doing to much heavy gaming but when I downloaded Assassin's Creed 2 while playing for like 40 minutes it crashed again and then again when playing l4d2 (It crashed while sitting at 69C for 10 minutes). So then I opened it up and used some compressed air to blow out the heat sink and there was a ton of dust inside. Afterwards while playing minecraft they hottest it got was about 43C instead of 65C. And it hasn't crashed since (but I'm still worried).
On a side note when I disabled amd turbo core it fixed a problem with my boot speed, before it would sit at the part where it says windows before the colorful balls would come up and swirl around. And now it brings up the fancy lights within 2 seconds of being on the screen.
So I'm just wondering if you guys think my crashing/freezing problems are from the cpu getting too hot. Thanks
Specs:
CPU: amd a8-5600k
MOBO: asrockfm2a75-dgs
PSU: Rosewill Fortress 550watt 80 plus platinum certified
MEMORY: Corsair 8gb (2 x 4gb) DDR3 1600
GPU: None (the cpu has a integrated graphics chip)
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