Hello,
I've been having some concerns with my PC recently, and I'm planning on upgrading some of the components in the near future. My issue is that I can't really pinpoint what needs changing.
Issues:
Gaming Temperatures: Using HW monitor, any game with 3D rendering (from Football Manager to MMOs to Civ 5) raises the temperature to around 70-75 degrees Celsius, which seems normal. But it's very loud and my monitor begins to display distortion (Horizontal lines flickering) so I'm not very comfortable playing games. These are generally at medium to high settings. I've updated my GPU drivers to the latest ver, and have also kept my Mother Board BIOS up to date. At idle temps the CPU ranges from low 20's to low 30's degrees Celsius, whilst the GPU is at about 40C.
Cooling: I took apart my GPU and reapplied thermal paste and also cleaned out dust from the heatsink, it doesn't seem to have helped much. I've also set up a new case fan at the front of my case (the one included had a molex connector and couldn't reach the motherboard), not much change. I also have one case fan at the top (the other doesen't draw power from the board/is broken) and a CPU cooler radiator at the back.
Case: I have a Mid-Tower case that isn't ideally laid out, the storage drives, GPU and PSU are all within close proximity which has made cable management a nightmare. But the airflow in general seems adequate. I wouldn't be able to fit any of the larger GPU cards in this case at the moment.
I recently had to buy a new PSU, which is working much smoother than my old one (it died after frequent power issues, loss of peripheral power etc). But right after I switched PSU's and updated my drivers is when I started noticing these problems. Essentially, the reason I'm asking for help is that I'm unsure if it's better to upgrade several components at once, (board/gpu/case?) or if it's one or two in particular that are giving me issues. I'd really appreciate some help with this!
Components:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Hydro CPU cooler
GPU: Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB GDDR5
MoBo: MSI 990FXA-GD65
RAM: 4x4 Kingston HyperX @ 1600
PSU: Corsair RM 650 80+ Gold (Old PSU: Cooler Master RS700W)
OS: Windows 8.1
Storage: 1TB WD HDD/ 2TB WD HDD (Backup)
Case: Ultra Etorque X4 Mid-Tower
Monitor: LG 24EN33
I've been having some concerns with my PC recently, and I'm planning on upgrading some of the components in the near future. My issue is that I can't really pinpoint what needs changing.
Issues:
Gaming Temperatures: Using HW monitor, any game with 3D rendering (from Football Manager to MMOs to Civ 5) raises the temperature to around 70-75 degrees Celsius, which seems normal. But it's very loud and my monitor begins to display distortion (Horizontal lines flickering) so I'm not very comfortable playing games. These are generally at medium to high settings. I've updated my GPU drivers to the latest ver, and have also kept my Mother Board BIOS up to date. At idle temps the CPU ranges from low 20's to low 30's degrees Celsius, whilst the GPU is at about 40C.
Cooling: I took apart my GPU and reapplied thermal paste and also cleaned out dust from the heatsink, it doesn't seem to have helped much. I've also set up a new case fan at the front of my case (the one included had a molex connector and couldn't reach the motherboard), not much change. I also have one case fan at the top (the other doesen't draw power from the board/is broken) and a CPU cooler radiator at the back.
Case: I have a Mid-Tower case that isn't ideally laid out, the storage drives, GPU and PSU are all within close proximity which has made cable management a nightmare. But the airflow in general seems adequate. I wouldn't be able to fit any of the larger GPU cards in this case at the moment.
I recently had to buy a new PSU, which is working much smoother than my old one (it died after frequent power issues, loss of peripheral power etc). But right after I switched PSU's and updated my drivers is when I started noticing these problems. Essentially, the reason I'm asking for help is that I'm unsure if it's better to upgrade several components at once, (board/gpu/case?) or if it's one or two in particular that are giving me issues. I'd really appreciate some help with this!
Components:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Hydro CPU cooler
GPU: Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB GDDR5
MoBo: MSI 990FXA-GD65
RAM: 4x4 Kingston HyperX @ 1600
PSU: Corsair RM 650 80+ Gold (Old PSU: Cooler Master RS700W)
OS: Windows 8.1
Storage: 1TB WD HDD/ 2TB WD HDD (Backup)
Case: Ultra Etorque X4 Mid-Tower
Monitor: LG 24EN33
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram