9-12 months ago, I bought my first custom pc, built myself. Finally I had a computer I could game hard on and stress without having too much problems with repairing and such. So I played among others BF3 on high and ultra with the Gainward 660ti phantom, stable with no problems and didnt notice anything that was wierd, until I bought GTA IV on steam, the game kept freezing randomly, turning the screen brown(?) and making a DRRRRRR kinda sound. (Thought it was just since GTA IV is so bad optimized for PC)
So I just quit playing that since it was impossible, and I continued to play other games, until a couple of days ago I bought Skyrim from Steam again, it it happend over and over again, so frustrated by it, checked by GPU temps, running ultra setting 110fps in Helgen(start area) at 60 celsius. And just snaps, and same happends again. Been searching over and over again on google and stuff but nothing seems to work?
Specs: AMD A10-5800K @ 3.8GHz (turbo 4.2GHz) With stock cooler Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 Kingston HyperX 8GB @ 1866MHz Gainward Geforce GTX 660ti Phantom 2GB XFX ProSeries 550w 80+ bronze Main drive: Corsair 120gb SSD (dont remember the exact model) (Skyrim is also installed here, steam on the 1TB one) Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
Any advice please? So tired of not being able to play some games..
60 °C is not a high temp for the GPU, and you didn't mention your CPU temp.
The stock cooler should be alright without overclock on the CPU, it might make some whining noise because it's a small fan, but it should do a proper job. However, what can happen is that your TIM has been contaminated at some point. The TIM that is pre-applied on coolers has a much higher viscosity than aftermarket TIM, and cures much faster, which means that in extreme conditions (TIM contaminated, less-than-ideal fit of the cooler, etc...), it may degrade very rapidly. I would take off the cooler, clean it thoroughly, apply aftermarket TIM with great care (ricegrain method), check that the cooler is affixed properly, and check if the PCI-express power lead to the GPU card is connected properly. I would suspect that this would end the problems if no hardware part is borked.
60celsius on the gpu is not high yes, and with speccy I had over 100c with is terrible while playing gta iv, and with speedfan I had around 65-80. I have bought some thermal paste to change but I talked to a dude at a LAN I was at some months ago. And he said it would make a difference. But I can test tho.
But its only GTA IV and Skyrim, not counter strike, or battlefield, or any other game?
depending on your budget, for cheapest possible and good, i'd say Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo or Plus, whichever is on sale. For High-End i'd say Noctua NH-D14(hands down best of the best). Scythe Ashura (best valued cpu cooler i've ever seen with mid to high performance).
Also, i suggest good thermal paste(Arctic Silver, Tuniq, or any at that level) and applied properly(can save you 5c just on proper paste application).
Thanks for the respond :) I do have a black scheme in my computer. So could I use a 212 evo or the 412S and change the fans out? I know the noctua fans are great tho.
you can, but if thats the case, why not just go for the xigmatek knight hawk dark knight edition then. It's like a 412S but fully black. That'll work better for you then.
Wow that matte black! looks amazing, I bought coffee filters and wiped off my cpu and orginial cooler then applied some Spire cpu paste or something, random buy at a LAN and the temps are fine. Now the gpu is the hottest in the computer :DD Thanks guys for fast respond and great help :P