- May 3, 2015
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Hi everybody.
So, yesterday I decided to do my chores like a good boy and while doing so I moved my PC (while shut down and unplugged) a few inches to the side and cleaned the front mesh over the intake fans. After powering back up I noticed increased noise (it was howling) and increased CPU temps on Corsair Link and HWinfo.
My temps are usually within the 20's while idling with spikes up to the 50's for a second or two at a time... pretty normal... but now they sit anywhere up to the 40's idling with spikes going into the 60's but for much longer, a half minute or more at a time. They do eventually go back down to the 20's eventually but only after it's been on for half an hour or so. Still, it's all within safe parameters.
But worse still, gaming performance has taken a huge hit...
I was getting 60 fps maxed out in TW: Atilla, now in the 30's average (I have to drop to the performance preset to get close to 60 fps. TW: Warhammer is now getting around 70 fps compared to the mid 80's previously... and CoH2 is the strangest, registering in the low 20's when I used to get well over 60 but the in game benchmark tells me 20-ish is the low and 150 is now the max but it's not registering on Afterburner and it sure is not what I'm seeing. Doom on the other hand is only seeing a drop of maybe 10-15 fps... weird.
The only thing I can think it could be is the fact I force shutdown my PC after it hung up on 'configuring windows' yet again when I tried a normal shutdown.. btw it does this hang up thing often, it would still be configuring windows after several hours if I left it... I know, it's done it before and I've force shutdown before and it's been fine. Could this be the issue?
Anyway, I've run through a bunch of checks... physical hardware all fine, uninstalled drivers and the latest windows update to see if they were the problem (they weren't) and even reset the BIOS (which was basic, only the XMP was enabled) and still the same.
My PC has an i7 6700K, GTX 1070 (neither OC'd) 16 Gb RAM running a 2560x1080 screen btw.
Any advice or help would be very much appreciated, ta.
PS: Another older issue (but not as annoying) that I just remembered... I have never been able to complete a benchmarking run on Firestrike or Unigine Valley/Heaven. Firestrike just stops with the message that 'user cancelled the run' when I didn't and Unigine just crashes. Any ideas why?
So, yesterday I decided to do my chores like a good boy and while doing so I moved my PC (while shut down and unplugged) a few inches to the side and cleaned the front mesh over the intake fans. After powering back up I noticed increased noise (it was howling) and increased CPU temps on Corsair Link and HWinfo.
My temps are usually within the 20's while idling with spikes up to the 50's for a second or two at a time... pretty normal... but now they sit anywhere up to the 40's idling with spikes going into the 60's but for much longer, a half minute or more at a time. They do eventually go back down to the 20's eventually but only after it's been on for half an hour or so. Still, it's all within safe parameters.
But worse still, gaming performance has taken a huge hit...
I was getting 60 fps maxed out in TW: Atilla, now in the 30's average (I have to drop to the performance preset to get close to 60 fps. TW: Warhammer is now getting around 70 fps compared to the mid 80's previously... and CoH2 is the strangest, registering in the low 20's when I used to get well over 60 but the in game benchmark tells me 20-ish is the low and 150 is now the max but it's not registering on Afterburner and it sure is not what I'm seeing. Doom on the other hand is only seeing a drop of maybe 10-15 fps... weird.
The only thing I can think it could be is the fact I force shutdown my PC after it hung up on 'configuring windows' yet again when I tried a normal shutdown.. btw it does this hang up thing often, it would still be configuring windows after several hours if I left it... I know, it's done it before and I've force shutdown before and it's been fine. Could this be the issue?
Anyway, I've run through a bunch of checks... physical hardware all fine, uninstalled drivers and the latest windows update to see if they were the problem (they weren't) and even reset the BIOS (which was basic, only the XMP was enabled) and still the same.
My PC has an i7 6700K, GTX 1070 (neither OC'd) 16 Gb RAM running a 2560x1080 screen btw.
Any advice or help would be very much appreciated, ta.
PS: Another older issue (but not as annoying) that I just remembered... I have never been able to complete a benchmarking run on Firestrike or Unigine Valley/Heaven. Firestrike just stops with the message that 'user cancelled the run' when I didn't and Unigine just crashes. Any ideas why?
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