Hi all,
Been using this forum to essentially build a rig for the first time, however something has gone wrong. I decided to upgrade my heatsink and CPU fan from stock as the temps were in the high 70s and above under load. I upgraded to the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU cooler, applying the thermal paste using the card method. The temperature did drop slightly, but was spiking between 60 and 70oC quite sporadically. I put the PC under load by playing games, seemed fine, still high temps but must of been better than previous. The next day I installed amd overdrive software primarily to look into my thermal margin under load, as it finished installing windows crashed. I tried booting it up several times to no avail. I managed to restore to an earlier point using safe mode with com prompt, the computer finally loaded up. The first screen that appeared told me my CPU fan had an error, however the fan was still going as were the case fans.
However my clock speed has dropped dramatically. It runs very sluggish, struggles to open steam etc. When it finally does open steam, the temps are in the mid 80s.
Anyone have any suggestions? Alien isolation is out and I'm desperate!
My setup is as follows,
AMD A10 5600k Richland
Gtx 750ti oc edition
500w PSU
Corsair carbide spec 3 with two case fans
Been using this forum to essentially build a rig for the first time, however something has gone wrong. I decided to upgrade my heatsink and CPU fan from stock as the temps were in the high 70s and above under load. I upgraded to the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU cooler, applying the thermal paste using the card method. The temperature did drop slightly, but was spiking between 60 and 70oC quite sporadically. I put the PC under load by playing games, seemed fine, still high temps but must of been better than previous. The next day I installed amd overdrive software primarily to look into my thermal margin under load, as it finished installing windows crashed. I tried booting it up several times to no avail. I managed to restore to an earlier point using safe mode with com prompt, the computer finally loaded up. The first screen that appeared told me my CPU fan had an error, however the fan was still going as were the case fans.
However my clock speed has dropped dramatically. It runs very sluggish, struggles to open steam etc. When it finally does open steam, the temps are in the mid 80s.
Anyone have any suggestions? Alien isolation is out and I'm desperate!
My setup is as follows,
AMD A10 5600k Richland
Gtx 750ti oc edition
500w PSU
Corsair carbide spec 3 with two case fans