I have a Radeon R7 240 and have had it for a little over a year with no problems. A couple of days ago, I noticed games I could play normally before were now running unusually slowly and decided to check the temperature, which was at around 50º C (122º F). This seemed very high as it used to stay at around 30º C (86º F).
Restarting fixes it temporarily. After about half an hour of normal temperature it spikes back up within a matter of minutes and stays at a maximum of 53º C (127º F). Now, supposedly this isn't dangerously high, but it's still much higher than it should be (especially when idle) and the decrease performance is noticeable when I'm playing a game and not just using my browser.
Additionally, once it begins spiking, GPU usage seems very high. HWMonitor tells me it's at 90-94%, but that doesn't seem right as I have nothing running that could make it that high. CPU and disk usage seem totally normal. I've downloaded a program called Process Explorer to check what could be causing it, but nothing weird shows up. I thought it could be caused by a bitcoin miner, but I disconnected it from the Internet for about 5 minutes and nothing changed.
Right now I'm blaming it on dust and will try to clean it up as soon as I have the time, but I've had graphics cards overheat before and don't remember it affecting GPU usage, so I decided to make a thread just in case anyone knows what could be causing it. Thanks in advance.
Restarting fixes it temporarily. After about half an hour of normal temperature it spikes back up within a matter of minutes and stays at a maximum of 53º C (127º F). Now, supposedly this isn't dangerously high, but it's still much higher than it should be (especially when idle) and the decrease performance is noticeable when I'm playing a game and not just using my browser.
Additionally, once it begins spiking, GPU usage seems very high. HWMonitor tells me it's at 90-94%, but that doesn't seem right as I have nothing running that could make it that high. CPU and disk usage seem totally normal. I've downloaded a program called Process Explorer to check what could be causing it, but nothing weird shows up. I thought it could be caused by a bitcoin miner, but I disconnected it from the Internet for about 5 minutes and nothing changed.
Right now I'm blaming it on dust and will try to clean it up as soon as I have the time, but I've had graphics cards overheat before and don't remember it affecting GPU usage, so I decided to make a thread just in case anyone knows what could be causing it. Thanks in advance.
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