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Bought a second hand PC and having trouble with it

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July 6, 2014 7:04:33 AM

Hi, I have bought a PC a couple months ago. It's a 1.5 year old-ish build.
Specs:
Motherboard: msi 990FXA-GD65
CPU: AMD fx 8320
GPU: saphire 7850
PSU: Thermaltake 700W

I'm usually happy with the performance with most of the time. But I'm having some other issues. And I think they might be connected to each other.

-it's not really stable, even on older games (like CS, HL1), I get FPS drops when there is alot of action. And I think it should be able to handle a 13+ year old game.

-Even when I try to open MSI Clickbios/Controlcenter softwares (which are built by MSI to modify BIOS/OC settings over Windows) the PC stutters hard a couple of times during the launch of the softwares. I'm not even using them, but launching them makes system (mouse, and everything) stutter a couple times, then the software opens. Stutters happen when I also try to change any settings from those softwares. So, I think its a big possibility that the motherboard is faulty. These stutters happen time to time, with some other heavy processes.

-These Idle Tempratures don't look right to me. TMPIN1 gets to 90degress when on Memtest. So I can't really overclock. There's a cooler master hyper 212 evo on CPU, so i dont think there is worse than an average cooling in there.

I have done everything that came to mind in software-wise (drivers, bios updates, bios settings, CPU throttle adjustments, clean windows, etc) But I can't seem to figure what the problem is.

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a c 259 V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 7:12:54 AM

Have you reinstalled the OS? For any used PC, that should be the first action, for a variety of reasons.
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 7:15:45 AM

You do not mention the most important component. What is the power supply unit?
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July 6, 2014 7:26:15 AM

Yes sir, I already reinstalled windows.

And as for PSU: it's a Thermaltake 700W. Do you think PSU has a better chance to be faulty than Mobo?
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a c 259 V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 7:30:17 AM

The TMPIN1 getting to 90C is troubling. It should not do that with a properly installed 212 EVO.
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July 6, 2014 7:33:52 AM

well, idle temp as 60 degrees doesn't also look right to me :/ 
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a b V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 7:37:00 AM

Everyone is wary of Thermaltake Power Supplies but focus on the other components first.
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a c 259 V Motherboard
July 6, 2014 7:40:30 AM

darroaxebender said:
well, idle temp as 60 degrees doesn't also look right to me :/ 


No...an idle temp of 60C is NOT right.
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