(12-19-2018, 12:07 AM)Minh Wrote:

I have disassembled and reassembled my good old PC forth and back a few times and I found no solution to its overheating, despite initial results being promising. I cannot even afford the mid-range rig at the moment. Job hunting sucks - and it has been going for months now.

I am making a break for an indefinite time.

o7

(12-19-2018, 09:47 AM)evanz Wrote: if its main cpu, try cleaning off old paste and redoing

(12-19-2018, 10:41 AM)Minh Wrote: That's why I disassembled entire PC and even cleaned out stuff piece by piece. Even gave a new paste, like evanz proposed. After week of trying, I just came into conclusion if my old PC is dying, there's no point. It is already pretty dated and I think it already hit a decade. However, with inability to afford to get a new PC - it was the reason why I got Xbox One S some time ago, because it costs three times less than a mid-range GPU alone - pretty unlikely I will return anytime soon. I still have a laptop, but that's more thing for writing stuff and scrolling through net.

My issues with my rig

I took it all apart, cleaned everything (the amount of dust that these things collect does not cease to amaze me) put it together and nothing. So I took it all apart again, checked visually all components and they seemed good. Then started the rig with 1 stick of RAM in the proper slot and still nothing. After switching the memory modules a couple of times it started up again, complaining there is no GPU. Upon inspecting the GPU I found one of the smaller heat sinks is loose, so I switched to my older GPU. At that point the PC started as usual, or so I though. Upon next restart it told me my BIOS settings were messed up and reloaded defaults. I had to change the CR2032 battery in the MOBO since it dropped under 3V. After that it seemed good so I ran a memtest a couple of times with OK result, added all the RAM back, ran the memtest again, all good.

It is running fine since then, but Im still in "testing period" sporting the older GPU.
(Did not got to fixing the heatsinks on the new one yet.)
It seems that I got couple problems at the same time:
- old/bad MOBO battery
- dust and such were probably affecting RAM modules, or RAM needed reseat anyway
- loose heat sink on GPU
Also forgot to mention, I disconnected front USB and audio panels. (They might have been at fault as well, but I did not get to testing them yet.)

(12-19-2018, 05:05 PM)Minh Wrote: Divided it into abcd, instead of -, so here we go..

a) How do you know your PC is overheating? Could it not be another issue? Did you tried different OS? (ex. Linux on USB)
Both from the temperature program and by the fact it turns off due to overheating. Linux - I never could use it. Tried W7 but it doesn't recognize GPU, so got stuck on Windows XP SP3.

b) Are you using any temperature monitoring software? ex. HWiNFO
Yes, I'm using Core Temp and used HWiNFO just to check everything else.

c) Which component is overheating? What temperatures it has?
The cores seem to overheat, despite vaccuming and quite "new" radiators. As for temperature, idle-to-low is around 30-40 on both cores, heavy-gaming makes it jump up to around 70-80 degrees, at times even to 100.

d) What type of PC it is, do you know any brands/models?
It's a desktop, using pretty dated elements (e.g. ATI Radeon HD 2400) already without much chance to swap anything due to obsolete motherboard.

To put it short, investing into this PC would be just waste of money (for two years already), yet I cannot afford even mid-range PC as for now. Investing money into the rig that I can afford would be as pointless for many reasons. That's why I got Xbox One S few months ago, as I found it the best alternative.

I've been behind gaming for pretty 6-7 years already, as even Skyrim refused to work in more than 10 fps, so... Yeah. That's why XB1S - especially when component prices went high, with GPU prices nowadays being truly awful. I mean, even PC gaming went nuts when it comes to game prices if you are Polish... thanks EU.