Is overheating causing my bad game performance?

Anxiety86

Anxiety86

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When playing games. I am getting terrible FPS and stutter, it is not like I am trying to run games that my system can't handle. I am playing Fallout 3 and Diablo 3. My fps is terrible, constant stutter and with Diablo 3 in a 4 player party it is going as low as 15 FPS.

This is where I am confused

My GPU usage max I ever see is about 70-80 for the 2 games I mentioned, never goes full. My CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 with MSI Afterburner never goes to 100% usage.

I tried everything with the games I play, lowered settings, still bad FPS and stutter, disabled my sound to see if it is a sound problem, updated GPU drivers and used old drivers, power plan on high performance, Nvidia control panel is set to single display and prefer maximum performance, was on Windows 7 and upgraded to 10 and still the same, pretty much every little tweak you can do I have tried.

Now to check my temps in the past I have been using ASrock Extreme Tuner and it has always showed my CPU temp as around 30/45c so I thought was all good.

But I recently downloaded HWiNFO and here is what made me think this is a CPU heat problem.

http://postimg.org/image/b19n3dc31/

As you can see, CPU package 0 is showing crazy temps, while playing Diablo it was sitting at 80/85c the max it hit was 101c, but my PC never crashes and it never freezes.

Is this a heat issue and is it time to reapply thermal paste or get a new heatsink? I am using stock heatsink that came with my PC

Specs

AMD-A10 5800k

120GB Samsung HD

8GB DDR3

GTX 750 TI 2GB

Evga 500w PSU

Windows 10

Asrock FM2A 75M DGS mobo


What do you think?
 
Just the stock heatsink

Thermal paste was the one that came with PC too, can't remember how much I put on, I built this a while back, I remember following a guide on the internet though to show me how much, so I think I got the right amount.
 
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Actually thinking back I think it was pre-applied

I just checked my boxes I don't have any paste

I also have no case fan blowing in, just one blowing out, maybe this could be a problem too.
 
Anxiety86 said:
Overheat will cause throttling then?
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Yes absolutely CPUs really don't like being at 100C Once they get to a point in temperature they will lower there clockspeed down and lower voltage to try there best to avoid having permanent damage done to the cpu. However even running at 99c without it throttling would not be great for the cpu and will definitely degrade the lifespan of the product. You will be much better off having it cooler.


EDIT : I am assuming with this happening in D3 it's happening in some dense mob packs ie in high grifts?

What is the fan situation in your case? cpu cooler getting fresh air blown towards it?
 
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harry5522 said:
Yes absolutely CPUs really don't like being at 100C Once they get to a point in temperature they will lower there clockspeed down and lower voltage to try there best to avoid having permanent damage done to the cpu. However even running at 99c without it throttling would not be great for the cpu and will definitely degrade the lifespan of the product. You will be much better off having it cooler.


EDIT : I am assuming with this happening in D3 it's happening in some dense mob packs ie in high grifts?

What is the fan situation in your case? cpu cooler getting fresh air blown towards it?
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Yeah Diablo 4 player party is terrible, in Grifts it is going to 15 FPS even with everything on low

No fan blowing in from side of case so this could be a problem too

My temp at idle has just shot up to 65c, I think this is a heat problem
 
Hmmm it may be worth cleaning the heat sync and try running the pc without the side panel attached :) that should also help the cooler get some fresh air. Great possible temp fix.
 
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