setup
Core i7 2600 3.4ghz
GTX 970
16 gig ram
Pre story:
CPU was getting way too hot, 70+ degrees idling. Cleaned the PC and reapplied thermal paste. Seemed to have helped a bit. It's still quite hot though but keep in mind i do not have a front fan (don't think case supports it or at least front seems closed) and its very hot here lately during these tests (35-40c outside)
I played a simple game that only uses 1 core (HON) and saw that my GPU and CPU were super low on load yet i was not getting great FPS. Because of this, I started to check what my pc was doing and overclocked the GPU. See screenshots for stress test and settings. When runnning the benchmark, right at the end, the screen went black for a second and a huge drop in minimum fps from 18 to 4 happened. I also saw some "lines" coming from the right side of the screen at the end. Not sure if this is 'tearing' though. Performance in HON hasn't changed much if any. Still to test a higher quality game which uses all cores.
Questions:
- Is my pc performing as expected?
- are my Afterburning settings too high since the occurences as above happened?
- What is my bottleneck?
- How is my Univalley score comparing to similar setups?
- Why are sometimes the GPU and CPU on low load yet the game is running on sub 60 fps?
Benchmark and stress test results: https://imgur.com/a/knfxa
Thank you so much in advance for your answers
Edit:
something strange also happened just now while I was just replying on another thread. The screen went off for a second and came back on and I saw a big spike in my CPU temperature to 80c.
At the same time the power, fan and core clock all dropped to very low or 0.
Edit 2: Hope this is the right category/sub forum.
Core i7 2600 3.4ghz
GTX 970
16 gig ram
Pre story:
CPU was getting way too hot, 70+ degrees idling. Cleaned the PC and reapplied thermal paste. Seemed to have helped a bit. It's still quite hot though but keep in mind i do not have a front fan (don't think case supports it or at least front seems closed) and its very hot here lately during these tests (35-40c outside)
I played a simple game that only uses 1 core (HON) and saw that my GPU and CPU were super low on load yet i was not getting great FPS. Because of this, I started to check what my pc was doing and overclocked the GPU. See screenshots for stress test and settings. When runnning the benchmark, right at the end, the screen went black for a second and a huge drop in minimum fps from 18 to 4 happened. I also saw some "lines" coming from the right side of the screen at the end. Not sure if this is 'tearing' though. Performance in HON hasn't changed much if any. Still to test a higher quality game which uses all cores.
Questions:
- Is my pc performing as expected?
- are my Afterburning settings too high since the occurences as above happened?
- What is my bottleneck?
- How is my Univalley score comparing to similar setups?
- Why are sometimes the GPU and CPU on low load yet the game is running on sub 60 fps?
Benchmark and stress test results: https://imgur.com/a/knfxa
Thank you so much in advance for your answers
Edit:
something strange also happened just now while I was just replying on another thread. The screen went off for a second and came back on and I saw a big spike in my CPU temperature to 80c.
At the same time the power, fan and core clock all dropped to very low or 0.
Edit 2: Hope this is the right category/sub forum.
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