Why not to buy a pre-built PC from a major company.

Personally I would take out the CPU, ram, hard drive, optical drive and the graphics card and flog the empty shell on Ebay.

Then buy a decent mobo, cooler, case and PSU for a 'new' build. I wouldn't wanna be running that CPU at stupidly high volts at silly temps for a long time.
 
King Damager said:
Ok, so here we go. I've been delving into the depths of the PC that my parents bought me a year and a half ago, and that hence I can't convince them to let me upgrade yet.... Aiming for summer hopefully...

Anyway, started to run some monitoring software, see how it worked out...

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Anyway, thought this would provide some giggles :)

kd
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Oh aye, who do we have here now :D I'm pretty sure I said this a year and a half ago buttt.. NEEDS MORE GPUZ POWAH.
 
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My first (and only) pre built gaming PC had a 1400 mhz Athlon, and it was overheating so much in 2D mode that the PC kept switching off.

We sent it back for fixing and it came back with an intake an exhaust fan, neither of which they bothered to put in in the first place. The PC was now stable, but the temps were still really high for that CPU at stock speed.

I was still clueless about building PCs then, so some time later my brother took off the CPU cooler to check. The numpties that built the thing hadnt taken off the cover on the heatsink base. I cant remember if it was plastic or a layer over a thermal pad, but after removing it the temps went down from 90 odd to 60ish degrees.

A few years later I made my first self build and would never go back to pre built machines. Even when I was a total newb building my first computer, I simply followed the guide at buildyourownpc.org, and made a PC far better than any pre built one (Athlon 3000+, 4 Gb ram, SLI 6800s, awesomesauce first build).

But then I got addicted :(
 
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Ok, thought I'd ask for a bit of advice here actually. So I've realised that the machine is actually still in Warranty. Now personally I'm hoping it dies soon so I can build a new one myself.

However, would it be worth getting in touch with HP support and complaining? Realistically I don't want to spend hours on the phone to some techy, nor do I want to send back the PC as it's the PC I'm using at Uni and I'd rather have a half dead machine then having to go through the hassle of getting this all sorted...

So yeah, recommendations on actions?

(Apart from the obvious fix the voltage)

kd
 
The voltage is way out of spec. Have you checked in BIOS to see what it's actually set to, in case for some reason it's been set incorrectly? It's also possible that the BIOS is wrong about what voltage certain chips need - but very unlikely I suppose.

If the voltage is out of spec because of a wrong setting then the CPU temps will fix themselves too. If it's out of spec for any other reason then I'd try and get them to fix it, because if it goes that'll be what makes it go.

Why the upgrade though, it should be chomping through anything thrown at it? If anything perhaps an SSD.
 
Supposedly only 4 days old, but if it's a bump I'm glad I saw it. Highlight of my day: finding out the PCs I sell at work are potentially over-volted to this extent. FML
 
1.65V!!!!! What the hell!!!

I'm surprised it's still alive. Get it down to default 1.25V and that'll sort the temps too. I'd love to know if that is the mobo default setting or a manual value some numpty has put in - please do investigate. I'll seriously LOL (and cry for your CPU) if that's an auto setting and the BIOS is so devoid of configurability that you can't even change it! Nothing abnormal about the GPU temp.
 
The Halk said:
Why the upgrade though, it should be chomping through anything thrown at it? If anything perhaps an SSD.
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Yeah, but after taking me a while to bother looking at the VCore, the CPU is already half dead, so it doesn't actually run anything I through at it. Plus think the GPU needs an upgrade. Well there's a variety of issues xD Let's not go into it xD

It does actually have an after-market cooler on it, (not the standard intel one) but not a very good one from what I can see, also seems to have no fans on the cooler...

But yeah, I'll investigate tomorrow when I boot up. (or after I boot down tonight I might switch it on to check)

Anyway, back to question, should still be in warranty so advice?

kd
 
Everything here is weird. An HP PC with no fan on a non-standard hsf plus a vcore that's nuts. Plus this PC which is tittering on the brink of throttling given its temps has not been reported as doing so even when playing MW2 on a gpu that shouldn't even be able to hit double figure frame rates with that game. What res is the monitor 800x600 ?

It may be gone midnight but surely I'm dreaming this...........it has to be some Techno Twilight Zone???
 
Bit of an effort, but a multimeter and trial & error stands a reasonable chance of reporting the vcore. I'm hoping cpuz is misreading the ram voltage as the cpu voltage on the unusual motherboard.

anuraj said:
did this just get suddenly get bumped because I rember seeing this 2 weeks ago even though it feels like a month.
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The Halk said:
The original post was 4 days ago, you can tell from the date it was posted.
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anuraj said:
it's felt longer but now lets stop this off topicness.
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Moron :(
 
I'm surprised the PSU's not blown up already, the low-quality ones are barely fit for purpose at stock voltages, never mind a kill-the-CPU massive overvolt.
 
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