Games Stuttering - Caused By Overheating?

TheTakman

TheTakman

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My Brother has a computer that i built for him a couple of years ago and the last few months he has been having slight stuttering in games. When i checked the CPU temperature it was getting to 90+ and staying there while gaming. I have since turned off the auto overclock settings in the Bios and put a more powerful fan in the front of the computer. This means the average temperature is around 60. He still gets the occasional stuttering but not as bad. It has the stock I7 cooler on it and i recently took it off and replaced the thermal paste and made sure it was fitted correctly.

-Could this prolonged temperature have damage the CPU?
-Is it still running too hot and would it be worth getting a new cooler?

Also the Graphics card runs at almost 60 in games and this is a brand new MSI GTX 970. Is this too hot for the Graphics card and what can i do to reduce the temperature?. It seems to have a pretty good stock cooler on it already.

Thanks for any help :)
 
TheTakman said:
My Brother has a computer that i built for him a couple of years ago and the last few months he has been having slight stuttering in games. When i checked the CPU temperature it was getting to 90+ and staying there while gaming. I have since turned off the auto overclock settings in the Bios and put a more powerful fan in the front of the computer. This means the average temperature is around 60. He still gets the occasional stuttering but not as bad. It has the stock I7 cooler on it and i recently took it off and replaced the thermal paste and made sure it was fitted correctly.

-Could this prolonged temperature have damage the CPU?
-Is it still running too hot and would it be worth getting a new cooler?
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A friend's i7-4790K was spiking to 86C playing GTA V. Stock voltage/clock, stock cooler. Had to buy an aftermarket one.


TheTakman said:
Also the Graphics card runs at almost 60 in games and this is a brand new MSI GTX 970. Is this too hot for the Graphics card and what can i do to reduce the temperature?. It seems to have a pretty good stock cooler on it already.

Thanks for any help :)
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60C is fine. If you'd like to tune the fan profile to your liking, try MSI Afterburner. The default fan profiles tend to be quite low, and you can usually notch things up quite a bit without it getting too noisy.
 
Do not overclock on the stock cooler ever.

It can barely keep them cool at atock temps.

Also most new gpus dont even kick the fans in till 60c your actually fine to 90c on the gpu.
 
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