- Aug 3, 2015
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Hey,
Last year I built a gaming PC. Here are the specs
430W EVGA Power Supply
ASUS R9270x Graphics Card
AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core 3.7 Ghz
ASRock FM2A55M Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
8GB Ram (2 4B sticks)
Here are the problems I've been having:
1. My CPU fan is extremely loud, and the CPU itself is also really hot. I've tried dusting it out and applying thermal paste, but this only solved the problem for like a week. The CPU gets really loud only when I'm gaming. It's not just a slight hum though, it's a blaring noise.
2. About once a week, my computer will shut off randomly and I'll get a blue screen. Before, when I had higher power settings, it would shut off once almost every day (without the blue screen though).
3. When playing games such as Skyrim or Dark Souls, I've noticed a decline in performance. Even lighter games such as Runescape on high-detail will straight-up tell me that I'm running out of RAM (or "heap" or whatever) but I have friends who can run the game with the same amount of RAM that I have but much more smoothly, and without problems.
Here's a screenshot of HWMonitor while I have a game running.
http://gyazo.com/de9393586d6622ce75fbe77bb9425ff7
If you can answer any of my questions I'd appreciate it.
Also, if you have any insight on how to improve my gaming PC and make it last longer (I'm excited for some upcoming games) I'd also really like that.
Ultimately my goals are to play upcoming games (like Dark Souls 3) and to also record my gameplay smoothly, while keeping my PC healthy.
Thanks for reading!
Last year I built a gaming PC. Here are the specs
430W EVGA Power Supply
ASUS R9270x Graphics Card
AMD Athlon X4 860K Quad Core 3.7 Ghz
ASRock FM2A55M Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
8GB Ram (2 4B sticks)
Here are the problems I've been having:
1. My CPU fan is extremely loud, and the CPU itself is also really hot. I've tried dusting it out and applying thermal paste, but this only solved the problem for like a week. The CPU gets really loud only when I'm gaming. It's not just a slight hum though, it's a blaring noise.
2. About once a week, my computer will shut off randomly and I'll get a blue screen. Before, when I had higher power settings, it would shut off once almost every day (without the blue screen though).
3. When playing games such as Skyrim or Dark Souls, I've noticed a decline in performance. Even lighter games such as Runescape on high-detail will straight-up tell me that I'm running out of RAM (or "heap" or whatever) but I have friends who can run the game with the same amount of RAM that I have but much more smoothly, and without problems.
Here's a screenshot of HWMonitor while I have a game running.
http://gyazo.com/de9393586d6622ce75fbe77bb9425ff7
If you can answer any of my questions I'd appreciate it.
Also, if you have any insight on how to improve my gaming PC and make it last longer (I'm excited for some upcoming games) I'd also really like that.
Ultimately my goals are to play upcoming games (like Dark Souls 3) and to also record my gameplay smoothly, while keeping my PC healthy.
Thanks for reading!
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