Is my CPU borked?

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Just got my new graphics card today and been playing tomb raider. After 10 minutes, it hung and a horrible buzzing noise sounded from the speakers. After restarting, I ran a prime 95 test and got these results. 2 minutes after this is completely froze but with no buzzing noise. I had to restart again.



I resat the heatsink with fresh paste about 3 months ago, so that is fine. I have also given it a good clean out the last couple of days. I'm a little stumped. Does it look like it's on it's way out?

 

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reseat the cooler again

I'm thinking about just changing it. It's an antec kuhler and I really don't like the way it's fixed on. It's a twist and lock. Hate those. Maybe one of the closed loop corsairs would do the job better.

 

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Have you always ran at that voltage? Seems a little high...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227647

edit: if that info is outdated then ignore me. It was the result of a quick google search.

I dont know about voltage. My motherboard has easy overclocking presets in the bios. I just picked 4.4 and went with it. Anything above and it wouldn't start.

 

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Thanks for your help, but I think I'm heading off to general hardware for a recommendation. I dont want to much about with any more. It's frustrating me, it's very old and it would be nice to partner my 980Ti with something newer.

Thanks anyway.

 

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Well those high temps are directly related to the voltage being shoved through it. I suspect your cooler is doing the best it can, all things considered.

With manual overclocking you should be able to hit the same overclock with lower voltage and therefore lower temps. Of course that takes time and effort but it's worth it in the long run.

edit: I can see you're not very patient.

I think the 980 has given me the upgrade bug. For personal reasons, I'm kind of living for the moment now anyway, so why not.

 

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Why not indeed. I hope that 980 is a ti???

Yeah. Gigabyte xtreme gaming one.

 

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is the pump working on the antec ?

Yeah definitely.

 

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I would drop back to stock clock and run prime. just out of interest to see if it was able to run at stock.

as above it does seem high voltage. I know when I used the motherboard easy tune it ran hot.

Doing it now.

 

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Run prime for 15 minutes. Temps now topping out mid to high 70's and voltage is 1.2910v.

The overclock is obviously hurting it. I really dont like the cooler twist and lock fitting on the Antec. I struggle to fit it properly.

I really need to hit 4.4 at least or I will just bottleneck my 980Ti. What's a top notch, piece of **** cooler to fit that will sort me out?

Marc, I know mate. I'm ordering an 850w Superflower tomorrow. I've heard they are by far and away the best of the lot.

 

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Well I thought I'd try out a reseat first. Got some MX-2 paste and reseated the cooler properly. It's more stable and full load in prime 95 pushes temps to 70 or so. Less than what I showed in the OP.

When playing ROTTR though, temps are still hitting 80. The voltage is under 1.4. No crashes though. Although there was a bit of stuttering at times, but they may have been caused by something else.