For context, My son plays nothing other than Fortnite, spec of his PC below (PC specialist build from new).
There was an issue with a failed fan on his GTX960 so I took the opportunity to upgrade my GPU and donated him the GTX 770 GPU from my PC when I upgraded to a Vega 56. In my rig, the GTX 770 performed flawlessly and never skipped a beat.
My son has to limit FPS to 30, even on medium settings, otherwise his PC goes black screen and have to force shut down by holding down the power button.
I've taken a look today and did notice the temp inside his PC is quite high and he only has one Corsair case fan which was running at a very low speed so I've gone into the BIOS and forced it to max speed to see if that helps.
I then installed MSI Afterburner and again, forced the GPU fan speed to max for anything over 60 degrees.
Before loading Fortnite, this did have the effect of reducing the GPU temp by maybe 1 or 2 degrees per minute but it was already in the 70s, probably because he had been playing Fortnite for a couple of hours (albeit at low settings and 30 max fps).
In Fortnite, we then set the gfx settings to recommended which pretty much set everything to medium. We then overrode that by changing the view distance to long.
Not sure if it's relevant but he has a 120hz monitor so the refresh rate is on 120.
When we started a game in fortnite his GPU temp was in the high 90s before we even started running around & building etc.
MSI Afterburner then showed as high as 104 before the system shut itself down with blackscreen (although PC was still turned on with all lights / fans spinning).
I was of the impression Fortnite isn't the most demanding game so was very surprised at how badly his PC was performing. Airflow in the PC isn't the greatest but still, I'm wondering if there is more too it? CPU temp was fine so it definitely points to the GPU but again, the GTX 770 never let me down once in the 4 years I used it so would be surprised if it's a hardware issue with the GPU.
I've bought an RX590 from the special yesterday, it's for his birthday in a couple of months but I don't want to give it to him now. I am worried whatever has caused the GTX 770 to overheat may happen again with the RX590.
Any advice much appreciated as always, thanks guys.
Case - Corsair (can't remember!)
Mobo - Gigabyte Z170-HD3P LGA1151
PSU - Corsair Vengeance 750M Silver
CPU - Intel i5-6400
RAM - 8GB DDR4
GFX - MSI GTX 770 OC 2GB DDR5
Monitor1 - Samsung SM2233RZ 22" 120Hz
Monitor2 - Generic 24" AOC
There was an issue with a failed fan on his GTX960 so I took the opportunity to upgrade my GPU and donated him the GTX 770 GPU from my PC when I upgraded to a Vega 56. In my rig, the GTX 770 performed flawlessly and never skipped a beat.
My son has to limit FPS to 30, even on medium settings, otherwise his PC goes black screen and have to force shut down by holding down the power button.
I've taken a look today and did notice the temp inside his PC is quite high and he only has one Corsair case fan which was running at a very low speed so I've gone into the BIOS and forced it to max speed to see if that helps.
I then installed MSI Afterburner and again, forced the GPU fan speed to max for anything over 60 degrees.
Before loading Fortnite, this did have the effect of reducing the GPU temp by maybe 1 or 2 degrees per minute but it was already in the 70s, probably because he had been playing Fortnite for a couple of hours (albeit at low settings and 30 max fps).
In Fortnite, we then set the gfx settings to recommended which pretty much set everything to medium. We then overrode that by changing the view distance to long.
Not sure if it's relevant but he has a 120hz monitor so the refresh rate is on 120.
When we started a game in fortnite his GPU temp was in the high 90s before we even started running around & building etc.
MSI Afterburner then showed as high as 104 before the system shut itself down with blackscreen (although PC was still turned on with all lights / fans spinning).
I was of the impression Fortnite isn't the most demanding game so was very surprised at how badly his PC was performing. Airflow in the PC isn't the greatest but still, I'm wondering if there is more too it? CPU temp was fine so it definitely points to the GPU but again, the GTX 770 never let me down once in the 4 years I used it so would be surprised if it's a hardware issue with the GPU.
I've bought an RX590 from the special yesterday, it's for his birthday in a couple of months but I don't want to give it to him now. I am worried whatever has caused the GTX 770 to overheat may happen again with the RX590.
Any advice much appreciated as always, thanks guys.
Case - Corsair (can't remember!)
Mobo - Gigabyte Z170-HD3P LGA1151
PSU - Corsair Vengeance 750M Silver
CPU - Intel i5-6400
RAM - 8GB DDR4
GFX - MSI GTX 770 OC 2GB DDR5
Monitor1 - Samsung SM2233RZ 22" 120Hz
Monitor2 - Generic 24" AOC
