- Oct 7, 2017
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Hi all,
Brief run down of my current setup:
- Core i7 4790K
- ASUS Z97 Deluxe
- 16GB DDR4 3200
- Nvidia 980GTX
I'm using Windows 10 and it's installed on a SSD - I'm using three SSD's and a HD in total.
Basically, I'm having serious overheating issues with the CPU. It's never been overclocked. It only properly came to my attention since I started playing Player: Unknown Battlegrounds, which is undoubtedly intensive on the CPU. When I first started playing the game I would get infrequent BSOD's, but over the course of a couple of months it started becoming much more frequent.
I started monitoring the CPU temperatures and sure enough the BSOD's were coinciding with the temperature hitting a sweltering 100C. The CPU is idling at high temperatures too - right now its at 54C in the Bios utility window alone.
I was having strange issues with the system on and off over the last six months - for example at times I'd get a BSOD randomly and the Bios would have difficulty starting windows when I restarted. It would get stuck in a loop and hang at the Windows loading screen. I also got a warning that the Bios couldn't detect any hard drives after a BSOD while playing pubg today, after a while it started working again.
I've already reapplied the thermal paste but it didn't seem to have much of an impact. I'm using the standard stock cooler - it's running at 100% pretty much constantly now. I've throughly cleaned it of dust (there wasn't much).
I suspect the CPU itself is dying, would overheating such as this indicate that it's on its last legs? Or perhaps its the stock cooler?
I don't have any BSOD issues playing other games. For example I play Battlefield 1 regularly and I've no issues, but the CPU is reaching 75 - 85C when playing that.
I'm planning an upgrade to a 8700K shortly and I don't want to spend money troubleshooting this (new cooler and so on) if people reckon the CPU itself is dying. On the other hand, if it's another issue I would consider spending a bit of money fixing it as it would be handy to have the CPU in a secondary computer I use now and then.
What do people reckon?
Brief run down of my current setup:
- Core i7 4790K
- ASUS Z97 Deluxe
- 16GB DDR4 3200
- Nvidia 980GTX
I'm using Windows 10 and it's installed on a SSD - I'm using three SSD's and a HD in total.
Basically, I'm having serious overheating issues with the CPU. It's never been overclocked. It only properly came to my attention since I started playing Player: Unknown Battlegrounds, which is undoubtedly intensive on the CPU. When I first started playing the game I would get infrequent BSOD's, but over the course of a couple of months it started becoming much more frequent.
I started monitoring the CPU temperatures and sure enough the BSOD's were coinciding with the temperature hitting a sweltering 100C. The CPU is idling at high temperatures too - right now its at 54C in the Bios utility window alone.
I was having strange issues with the system on and off over the last six months - for example at times I'd get a BSOD randomly and the Bios would have difficulty starting windows when I restarted. It would get stuck in a loop and hang at the Windows loading screen. I also got a warning that the Bios couldn't detect any hard drives after a BSOD while playing pubg today, after a while it started working again.
I've already reapplied the thermal paste but it didn't seem to have much of an impact. I'm using the standard stock cooler - it's running at 100% pretty much constantly now. I've throughly cleaned it of dust (there wasn't much).
I suspect the CPU itself is dying, would overheating such as this indicate that it's on its last legs? Or perhaps its the stock cooler?
I don't have any BSOD issues playing other games. For example I play Battlefield 1 regularly and I've no issues, but the CPU is reaching 75 - 85C when playing that.
I'm planning an upgrade to a 8700K shortly and I don't want to spend money troubleshooting this (new cooler and so on) if people reckon the CPU itself is dying. On the other hand, if it's another issue I would consider spending a bit of money fixing it as it would be handy to have the CPU in a secondary computer I use now and then.
What do people reckon?
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