I just completed a computer build for my little brother. He lives in California, I'm in Florida. Unfortunately, he just doesn't have the technical skills to do it himself.
The build went perfectly. I installed windows 8.1 to a seperate partition on his 500gb 7200 rpm hdd, set the volume for the second partition, and immediately went into some very basic stress testing.
I built this computer so he can have a gaming rig, and I told him he'd be able to play games like Skyrim on ultra settings. When I tested Skyrim on Ultra, it ran great. He should also have no issues with games like battlefield 4 and titanfall. Not bad at all for a budget rig.
Specs: amd a6 6400k apu (non-black edition)
4 gb gskill 1600 ram (one stick)
gtx 750 ti 2gb GPU
ECS A75F2-A2(1.0) ATX FM2 mobo
I installed HWmonitor before running skyrim so I could monitor the temps and power draw. First off, I noticed that there are no core temps. This is a dual core processor, but hwmonitor doesn't even have a spot where the core temps should be shown. It only shows Packages temp, and that was hitting around 75-80c under load.
Being really concerned about this temp, I did some research, found out that hwmonitor isn't the best for monitoring APUs, so I went and installed CoreTemp. CoreTemp is supposedly compatible with AMDs Richland APUs. Unfortunately, while the cores do display properly, it shows 0c for the temps.
So I installed Aidaxtreme. Ran a stress test on the cpus. Said it was at 100% load, something I confirmed in hwmonitor and task manager. However, it claims that at 100% load, my processor isn't getting higher than 25c. That's after 15 minutes at 100% load... which just doesn't seem right. I'm using a stock cooler. I'm a boss with the cable management, but no one is that good. There's a case fan at the top of the case near the back, sitting about 2 inches over where the cpu is mounted, and another case fan at the back, near the top, about 4 inches behind where the cpu is mounted.
I decided to check the bios. Under the computer health section, it lists the fan speeds and voltage for the cpu. It also has something labeled "cpu tct1" with a number value of "+38" to the right of it. Is that supposed to be the temperature?
I'm just really concerned. I don't want to mail my brother a pc all the way across the country only to have it fry on him a week later... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS...: I intend to mail him this PC today, or tomorrow at the latest, so an expedient reply would be awesome
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The build went perfectly. I installed windows 8.1 to a seperate partition on his 500gb 7200 rpm hdd, set the volume for the second partition, and immediately went into some very basic stress testing.
I built this computer so he can have a gaming rig, and I told him he'd be able to play games like Skyrim on ultra settings. When I tested Skyrim on Ultra, it ran great. He should also have no issues with games like battlefield 4 and titanfall. Not bad at all for a budget rig.
Specs: amd a6 6400k apu (non-black edition)
4 gb gskill 1600 ram (one stick)
gtx 750 ti 2gb GPU
ECS A75F2-A2(1.0) ATX FM2 mobo
I installed HWmonitor before running skyrim so I could monitor the temps and power draw. First off, I noticed that there are no core temps. This is a dual core processor, but hwmonitor doesn't even have a spot where the core temps should be shown. It only shows Packages temp, and that was hitting around 75-80c under load.
Being really concerned about this temp, I did some research, found out that hwmonitor isn't the best for monitoring APUs, so I went and installed CoreTemp. CoreTemp is supposedly compatible with AMDs Richland APUs. Unfortunately, while the cores do display properly, it shows 0c for the temps.
So I installed Aidaxtreme. Ran a stress test on the cpus. Said it was at 100% load, something I confirmed in hwmonitor and task manager. However, it claims that at 100% load, my processor isn't getting higher than 25c. That's after 15 minutes at 100% load... which just doesn't seem right. I'm using a stock cooler. I'm a boss with the cable management, but no one is that good. There's a case fan at the top of the case near the back, sitting about 2 inches over where the cpu is mounted, and another case fan at the back, near the top, about 4 inches behind where the cpu is mounted.
I decided to check the bios. Under the computer health section, it lists the fan speeds and voltage for the cpu. It also has something labeled "cpu tct1" with a number value of "+38" to the right of it. Is that supposed to be the temperature?
I'm just really concerned. I don't want to mail my brother a pc all the way across the country only to have it fry on him a week later... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS...: I intend to mail him this PC today, or tomorrow at the latest, so an expedient reply would be awesome
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