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Crashing while in game on a new system (some advice please guys)

nkata said:
The HWmonitor that I have used above is 1.23.0 driver version 136 which I have had since 2013, seems to work fine for the FX series although it is more to do with the chipset on the motherboard.

I had my FX8350 in an ASUS M5A99x R1.0 motherboard when I first had it, It was 2012 silicon, one of the first. The mobo / CPU would bench at 5GHz readily x264, cinebench etc. But would only prime at 4.5GHz I could prime on 4 workers at 4.9GHz. I could game at 4.7GHz.

Therefore I believe that the motherboard is fine and the cooler is suspect. I far prefer large air coolers (or custom water) however I am back to air cooling now. I would go for a Phanteks twin tower over any AIO cooler out there. The heligon is good, but I got it as B grade.
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Yeah prime for me limited my overclock to 4.5ghz due to my motherboard, but cinebench and handbrake gaming I could manage 4.8-5.0ghz.
I've always used air cooling, and a mistake a lot of people make with gpu's and motherboards is replacing the air cooler with a water/liquid cooler but not having an additonial fan situated over the vrms and phases.
 
switcheHHH said:
Back to the PSU again haha damnit :P

Well put it this way, I am about to update my bios, then I'll reseat my Cooler.
If I get nothing after that I will have to cave in and get a new PSU.

Just so I am clear, my rad/grill needs to be HOT when stress testing yes?
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Don't get a new psu try without knowing 100% you need to though.
Don't want you wasting money if it's not the cause.
 
If you're heatsink is redders but your cooling rad is barely warm then that would indicate a flow problem. If they are similar temperatures then it would indicate the heat isn't being transferred from the cpu effectively.

Or the cpu isn't really getting that hot ! lol :)
 
Davedree said:
If you're heatsink is redders but your cooling rad is barely warm then that would indicate a flow problem. If they are similar temperatures then it would indicate the heat isn't being transferred from the cpu effectively.

Or the cpu isn't really getting that hot ! lol :)
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1. I'm not overclocking so will it make THAT much of a difference with a fan pointing at the VRM's?

2. no I don't want to buy anything else if I can help it but it's looking bleak :P

3. well the grill was 'warm' at best so i don't know what that tells you...
 
1. I'm not overclocking so will it make THAT much of a difference with a fan pointing at the VRM's?

2. no I don't want to buy anything else if I can help it but it's looking bleak :P

3. well the grill was 'warm' at best so i don't know what that tells you...

Effectively you are overclocking it's just you've paid for it by the purchase of your cpu. If you bought an fx8320 you would end up tweaking the bios to a similar end result as the fx9590 is at stock.
When using a liquid cooler, adding a cooling fan or 2 over the socket and vrm area can always help, it depends on how much voltage you are pushing.
1.46v even on your board is not pushing it so I don't get why people feel it is.


If the rad was warm but the heatsink was red hot then
 
Davedree said:
1. I'm not overclocking so will it make THAT much of a difference with a fan pointing at the VRM's?

2. no I don't want to buy anything else if I can help it but it's looking bleak :P

3. well the grill was 'warm' at best so i don't know what that tells you...

Effectively you are overclocking it's just you've paid for it by the purchase of your cpu. If you bought an fx8320 you would end up tweaking the bios to a similar end result as the fx9590 is at stock.
When using a liquid cooler, adding a cooling fan or 2 over the socket and vrm area can always help, it depends on how much voltage you are pushing.
1.46v even on your board is not pushing it so I don't get why people feel it is.


If the rad was warm but the heatsink was red hot then
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Ok so BIOS is up to date, chipset is current. I reseated the cooler made sure it was firmly on (it is) the pump works everything seems to work.

I did a stress test, I crashed out at this temp.... lol. It can't be the cooler, not when it crashed out at those temps, I was going higher than that and not crashing before. (see previous screenshots of stress tests)
Someone save me from this hell...

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Harlequin said:
what bios are you using?
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That one which is the latest (2501), which was already running (I checked my current BIOS version) so I didn't update anything as it was already done.

ALSO my cooler makes a squirting type sound every so odten? Always has done and it never gave me problems on my old setup, wanted to check if that was normal?

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Insane Idea

I have two PSU's....what if I used both? use my 750W for CPU and HDD's / 520W for my graphics card.

It's only feeding power and with the extra 520W I can see if the PSU really is the issue.....right?

I don't really have many (if any) options left. thoughts? :D
 
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switcheHHH said:
Ok so BIOS is up to date, chipset is current. I reseated the cooler made sure it was firmly on (it is) the pump works everything seems to work.

I did a stress test, I crashed out at this temp.... lol. It can't be the cooler, not when it crashed out at those temps, I was going higher than that and not crashing before. (see previous screenshots of stress tests)
Someone save me from this hell...

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Package temps still high and it sucks we don't have vrm temps.
Turn off cpb in the bios and set the CPU multiplier to 22.
Then next test get the biggest fan you can find to aim over the vrm heatsink.
Let's see if the temps improve.
 
Davedree said:
Package temps still high and it sucks we don't have vrm temps.
Turn off cpb in the bios and set the CPU multiplier to 22.
Then next test get the biggest fan you can find to aim over the vrm heatsink.
Let's see if the temps improve.
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What about my crazy idea?
Okay, will give it a go.
Have you got skype/steam/some kind of chat platform I could add you on? Seeing as you reply the most it would make life easier I think.
 
Jut quickly, how do i reset BIOS, is it just ''load optismised defaults''?

As I hit OC tuner by mistake an it probably OC'ed everything, crashed 3 times just booting up :P
 
That's crazy high temp for 1.40v
I'm just not sure what to suggest, is it the cooler, is it the motherboard, is it the psu, is it the CPU?
If you can reduce the CPU voltage to 1.35v turn off Turbo core and lower the CPU multi to 20.
Then it'll run at 4ghz at 1.35v, then we can see what's going on
 
Davedree said:
That's crazy high temp for 1.40v
I'm just not sure what to suggest, is it the cooler, is it the motherboard, is it the psu, is it the CPU?
If you can reduce the CPU voltage to 1.35v turn off Turbo core and lower the CPU multi to 20.
Then it'll run at 4ghz at 1.35v, then we can see what's going on
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Okay. that's done (see below), I also loaded HW Monitor while idle.

I will do a stress test now and post that too


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