My current desktop gaming system was built (by me) in 2010. It has always run well and stable well within temperature limits with no overclocking. I decided it was time for an upgrade so I purchased two more sticks of 4 GB Gskill Ripjaws ram (same part number). and an XFX R9-380-4255 4GB video card to replace an XFX HD-5850. It appeared that the video card was the bottleneck in the system when playing GTAV, and not wanting to spend a lot of money, chose to keep the I5-760 processor, as upgrading that would necessitate buying a new board as well. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3.
When I received the parts, I started by installing the ram and rebooted. Unfortunately, It would not post or boot All I got was a blank screen -. I tried rebooting a few times without any success. I removed the ram, rebooted and went into the bios, and toggled either the XMp and or SPD selections. It was then able to boot so I shut down and reinstalled the new ram, and this time it got to the post screen. I am a little puzzled as to why this problem occurred, but so far it hasn't happened again since.
Next, I uninstalled the AMD software and drivers, installed the new card, and reinstalled the software and drivers. Immediately on booting I got a garbled screen which is probably the logo screen but totally unreadable, then it posts normally and boots into windows just fine. Aside from that issue then, so far so good, I thought.
The card seemed to perform well in GTAV and I was able to turn up all of the eye candy and get very good frame rates, but unfortunately I began noticing the CPU temps getting dangerously high. My CPU temps at idle used to be around mid 30's or so, and would max out at around 65-70 or so playing GTAV. Now I was noticing idle temps in the high 40's/low to mid 50's, and temps over 90 playing GTAV. Not good. I should note that MSI afterburner reports of GPU and CPU usage to be very similar with both cards..
To be safe, and certain, I reapplied some thermal paste to the cooler and proc, but that didn't help. Reinstalling the old video card brought the temps back down to a safe level, but they are still higher than normal. I tried this as i couldn't think of anything else, and think it is rather odd but it appears to be at least partly responsible for the higher temps. (ventilation is not an issue)
I am beginning to think that the MB made some changes which have some impact on the temps, but can't be certain. The settings appear normal. But then again I went in to load the optimized defaults at some point but that didn't improve things.
Anyone want to take a stab at this?
Thanks in advance!
When I received the parts, I started by installing the ram and rebooted. Unfortunately, It would not post or boot All I got was a blank screen -. I tried rebooting a few times without any success. I removed the ram, rebooted and went into the bios, and toggled either the XMp and or SPD selections. It was then able to boot so I shut down and reinstalled the new ram, and this time it got to the post screen. I am a little puzzled as to why this problem occurred, but so far it hasn't happened again since.
Next, I uninstalled the AMD software and drivers, installed the new card, and reinstalled the software and drivers. Immediately on booting I got a garbled screen which is probably the logo screen but totally unreadable, then it posts normally and boots into windows just fine. Aside from that issue then, so far so good, I thought.
The card seemed to perform well in GTAV and I was able to turn up all of the eye candy and get very good frame rates, but unfortunately I began noticing the CPU temps getting dangerously high. My CPU temps at idle used to be around mid 30's or so, and would max out at around 65-70 or so playing GTAV. Now I was noticing idle temps in the high 40's/low to mid 50's, and temps over 90 playing GTAV. Not good. I should note that MSI afterburner reports of GPU and CPU usage to be very similar with both cards..
To be safe, and certain, I reapplied some thermal paste to the cooler and proc, but that didn't help. Reinstalling the old video card brought the temps back down to a safe level, but they are still higher than normal. I tried this as i couldn't think of anything else, and think it is rather odd but it appears to be at least partly responsible for the higher temps. (ventilation is not an issue)
I am beginning to think that the MB made some changes which have some impact on the temps, but can't be certain. The settings appear normal. But then again I went in to load the optimized defaults at some point but that didn't improve things.
Anyone want to take a stab at this?
Thanks in advance!
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