is my CPU fried?????!!

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forgetitimhott

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amd FX-8350

gigabyte 970A-DS3

gigabyte gtx 650 TI

8 gb corsair vengeance ram

arctic red 750w psu

zelman water cooler

i was playing games on my pc with the frames and everything runing fine. next time i came to play my pc shut itself down from over heating several times i think due to cpu overheating. so i figured it was the liquid cooler to the cpu so i researched problems with liquid coolers and took the steps to make it work again.

i got my system running again and had solved the overheating issue. but now when i play the same games im getting massive frame drops down to between 12 and 20 but the frame drops are not continious and all of a sudden my frames return back to full for breif moments.

ive reinstalled windows and installed all upto date drivers. ive been trying to look around forums but its hard to pin point search terms.

thanks for your help in advance.
 
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bmacsys

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Your cpu is fine. Your mobo is 4+1 phase without heatsinks on the vrm's. It is throttling because the mosfets are getting too hot trying to meet the demands of feeding the cpu the required current to operate.
 
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Check your temps. How hot was it running?

HWMonitor.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Speccy.

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

Monitor while idle and while under load.

My guess is that your absolutely scary bad power supply is on it's way out. That thing is junk and needs replacing no matter what else might be wrong. I wouldn't trust it to power a toaster much less a PC.

and took the steps to make it work again.
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Meaning exactly what?
 
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Your cpu is fine. Your mobo is 4+1 phase without heatsinks on the vrm's. It is throttling because the mosfets are getting too hot trying to meet the demands of feeding the cpu the required current to operate.
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And how exactly did you come to that conclusion? Gigabyte boards are top notch. They certainly don't have VRM heating issues with stock clocked CPUs.
 
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bmacsys

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You don't have a clue do you? Just Google his board and "overheating vrm's". It is a very low end Gigabyte AM3+ board. Do you even know what "Phase Power" denotes? Do you know what 4+1 or 8+2 means? Do you know what vdroop is?
 
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forgetitimhott

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thanks for your insight. solved my problem. you where spot on and i never even noticed my mobo lacked those heatsinks.
 
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