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New Rig - Runs like a cow - please help
- Thread starter Plissken
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Caporegime
Open the side of the case up with the machine off. Make sure the CPU cooler is fitted firmly (give it a firm wiggle). Start the machine up and make sure the fan is spinning.
Soldato
What else other than reinstall did you do? Did you reset the bios or anything?
I have had weird things in the past where a bad overclock would cause the machine to be entirely unstable no matter what I did to the settings, and would have clear the CMOS to get it back to working again.
I have had weird things in the past where a bad overclock would cause the machine to be entirely unstable no matter what I did to the settings, and would have clear the CMOS to get it back to working again.
Soldato
You did use thermal paste on the heatsink right?
I used Arctic Silver. The temps were fine yesterday. Idle around 30 and 40 to 48 on load. I've reset bios to default and the MB tells you which settings it's scrubbing. It was resetting some CAS9 settings? Totally confused as I've gone nowhere near OC on CPU or memory.
PC guts are all over the desk now and the GTX has been removed. Doing a fresh install with the onboard graphics to see if I can get it back to some form of stability.
PC guts are all over the desk now and the GTX has been removed. Doing a fresh install with the onboard graphics to see if I can get it back to some form of stability.
Soldato
Horrible when you get stuff like this happen. Good luck 
If it still goes wrong on another install, please tell us some more detail on the blue screens!!!
If it still goes wrong on another install, please tell us some more detail on the blue screens!!!
Built back up (but still not in the case). It seems stable for the moment. Did the 3dmark test and the figures came up slightly lower than comparable tests. Web example had a P score of 8435 (to my P8025), graphics 8933 (mine 8340), Physics 7237 (mine 7417) and a combined score of 7213 (mine 6921). So slightly lower but not too worrying.
I had to move the GPU to slot 2 to help with some cooling but it's gen3 x 16 so shouldnt make a difference.
Afterburner reports about 50% load on the card so it's not really being stressed out at all by the game. The CPU on the other hand is maxing so it might be time to OC. I've got 28c idle and 50c stressed at the moment so will up it once I have more confidence its not going to go puff (or mooooo).
Now I have this bizaro problem where the system sometimes wont recognise the USB mouse on boot up and you need to take it out and put it back in. Don't think I should do this for a living
Anyway will post if anything else comes up but I really wanted to say thanks for all your help. What a nice community you all are!
I had to move the GPU to slot 2 to help with some cooling but it's gen3 x 16 so shouldnt make a difference.
Afterburner reports about 50% load on the card so it's not really being stressed out at all by the game. The CPU on the other hand is maxing so it might be time to OC. I've got 28c idle and 50c stressed at the moment so will up it once I have more confidence its not going to go puff (or mooooo).
Now I have this bizaro problem where the system sometimes wont recognise the USB mouse on boot up and you need to take it out and put it back in. Don't think I should do this for a living
Anyway will post if anything else comes up but I really wanted to say thanks for all your help. What a nice community you all are!
Built back up (but still not in the case). It seems stable for the moment. Did the 3dmark test and the figures came up slightly lower than comparable tests. Web example had a P score of 8435 (to my P8025), graphics 8933 (mine 8340), Physics 7237 (mine 7417) and a combined score of 7213 (mine 6921). So slightly lower but not too worrying.
I had to move the GPU to slot 2 to help with some cooling but it's gen3 x 16 so shouldnt make a difference.
Afterburner reports about 50% load on the card so it's not really being stressed out at all by the game. The CPU on the other hand is maxing so it might be time to OC. I've got 28c idle and 50c stressed at the moment so will up it once I have more confidence its not going to go puff (or mooooo).
Now I have this bizaro problem where the system sometimes wont recognise the USB mouse on boot up and you need to take it out and put it back in. Don't think I should do this for a living
Anyway will post if anything else comes up but I really wanted to say thanks for all your help. What a nice community you all are!
Are you still getting lower frame rates than you laptop in game ?