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fiercetierce

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I bought a project computer from my cousin a few months ago. Hardware:

Intel Core i7-920
Nvidia GTX 580
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB
6x 2GB RAM Sticks
Asus P6T Motherboard

It had been preforming decent/ sub par and ran a hot CPU, so I bought a new heatsync, applied new thermal paste, and it ran at a decent temp for a while (~65-70c). It ran decently, and PUBG would run at 60 frames except when in laggy areas (as expected). Recently it hasn't been running great. I tried playing PUBG at lowest setting in FPP solo and I coudn't get better than 20 frames. I looked at my temp again and it shows upwards of 80c. I know that's way to hot, so I immediately killed all programs I could and I'm looking at better heatsyncs now.

I'm looking for other opinions and possibly other solutions/ things that could be going wrong with my PC. Thank you for your responses ahead of time.
 
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SkyNetRising
The cooler is inadequate for your cpu. What did you expect from €6 cooler?
It is recommended for cpus up to 85W. Core i7-920 is 130W cpu.

Get a better cooler. CM Hyper Evo 212, Cryorig H5, Cryorig H7 or similar.
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fiercetierce

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I'm pretty confused by your answer; I've never heard of thermal paste or pads being applied to a GPU. I thought thermal paste was applied to heatsync to dissipate heat from CPU.

I don't think Windows isn't upgraded correctly because it's been running without hiccups, though I'd like to test if if there's a way to. Do you know of one?

 
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GPU's a type of processor, just like a CPU. The memory pads also gets pretty hot so most GPU coolers have a thermal pad on top of the memory chips.

I'm not talking about whether the update is done correctly, I'm talking about MS releasing a poorly made update.
 
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fiercetierce

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Thank you for clarifying. I've been looking at CPU temp through Logitech's G-Tech software. Do you suggest software to monitor GPU temperature?

I'm running Microsoft 10. Is there a possibility there's something wrong with the Windows software I'm running?

I really appreciate your time and help!
 
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SkyNetRising

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What heat-sink exactly are you using for your cpu?
Is your cpu overclocked?
What are current idle/load temperatures?
Can you show screenshot of MSI afterburner hardware monitoring window, when gaming?
(graphs important: fps, cpu usage/temp, gpu usage/temp, ram usage, video memory usage)
MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring window looks like this:
Monitoring.png
 
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fiercetierce

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Will provide within 12 hours.
 
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fiercetierce

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The heatsync I installed is the Arctic Alpine 11.

No overclocking.

Using MSI Afterburner before even booting games shows CPU at uncomfortable levels. I started loading South Park: The Fractured but Whole but stopped it pretty fast after seeing these graphs:

https://imgur.com/wtl38iQ

It seems clear that my performance is bad because my CPU is overheating, but I'm not sure if that's the only problem and I'm looking for ways to fix it.

I used MSI software to turn the heatsync fan all the way up and temperature didn't improve at all.
 
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fiercetierce

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I see. This heatsync was an upgrade from what I was provided (stock) so I assumed it was fine. Thank you for your help! Hopefully this fixes my issues.
 
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