Hello,
After buying lots of parts for my new PC over 5 months, I finally had the PC I wanted.
Q9550 Core2Quad cpu
Asus 750i motherboard
Creative-X soundcard
XFX 260 graphics card
I have it built for me while I'm doing my exams and then I play for 2 hours each day for about 3-4 days - it was a must!
Anyhow, the games WERE demanding yeah, but the build could easily take it right?!
thats what I paid for.
Wrong, after playing SilentHunter 4 and using the time-compressor I'm sure many of you know well , I reached 8000mins per min.
Yeah, I loved it, SH4 game with all the waiting cut out. It was bliss. And then the computer cut out.
Overheat???
I turn it back on about 5 mins later after I took the side panel off to make sure it was cooling (my room was about 15 celcius at the time). I run the lovely ASUS electricity usage/temperature checker, and the CPu is 87 celcius.
I had been running SilentHunter 4 with 8000x compression for about 4 mins non-stop a few times when I played.
So..
A) The computer now continuously seems to be "working hard", you know the noise when your CPU sounds like its hitting speed bumps every couple of miliseconds or grinding wood. The screen has frozen once (actually while I was monitoring temperature) and I had to restart the computer - I know thats a possible sign of perma-damage. So IS it perma-damaged? and how can I test if it isn't?
B) What do I do?? Intel warranty? I spent a good long time rationing so I could afford the thing, I thought it's meant to regulate it's own power usage - Not attempt to blow up on start-up!
C) The CPU is already 58 celcius when I start the PC now, no matter what. I don't understanding this. I checked everything I can without moving things - which would void the manual labour of the local shop, but I read on here many people are having these problems, but nothing like STARTING on 58 celcius, or reaching 87.
D) Is there possible further damage? I seriously don't want to know but I must, if my RAM of GFX card may be damaged by this.
I weep.
If you need any more details, please ask. I'm not even enjoying eating properly now that half my annual student loan is trying to vaporise itself.
Thanks.
Edit: Note that also the ASUS temperature/voltage monitoring software also showed the RAM to be at an unusually high temperature too.
After buying lots of parts for my new PC over 5 months, I finally had the PC I wanted.
Q9550 Core2Quad cpu
Asus 750i motherboard
Creative-X soundcard
XFX 260 graphics card
I have it built for me while I'm doing my exams and then I play for 2 hours each day for about 3-4 days - it was a must!
Anyhow, the games WERE demanding yeah, but the build could easily take it right?!
thats what I paid for.Wrong, after playing SilentHunter 4 and using the time-compressor I'm sure many of you know well , I reached 8000mins per min.
Yeah, I loved it, SH4 game with all the waiting cut out. It was bliss. And then the computer cut out.
Overheat???
I turn it back on about 5 mins later after I took the side panel off to make sure it was cooling (my room was about 15 celcius at the time). I run the lovely ASUS electricity usage/temperature checker, and the CPu is 87 celcius.
I had been running SilentHunter 4 with 8000x compression for about 4 mins non-stop a few times when I played.
So..
A) The computer now continuously seems to be "working hard", you know the noise when your CPU sounds like its hitting speed bumps every couple of miliseconds or grinding wood. The screen has frozen once (actually while I was monitoring temperature) and I had to restart the computer - I know thats a possible sign of perma-damage. So IS it perma-damaged? and how can I test if it isn't?
B) What do I do?? Intel warranty? I spent a good long time rationing so I could afford the thing, I thought it's meant to regulate it's own power usage - Not attempt to blow up on start-up!
C) The CPU is already 58 celcius when I start the PC now, no matter what. I don't understanding this. I checked everything I can without moving things - which would void the manual labour of the local shop, but I read on here many people are having these problems, but nothing like STARTING on 58 celcius, or reaching 87.
D) Is there possible further damage? I seriously don't want to know but I must, if my RAM of GFX card may be damaged by this.
I weep.
If you need any more details, please ask. I'm not even enjoying eating properly now that half my annual student loan is trying to vaporise itself.
Thanks.
Edit: Note that also the ASUS temperature/voltage monitoring software also showed the RAM to be at an unusually high temperature too.
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