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Old 10-02-2010, 08:09 AM   # 1 (permalink) Top
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Hello everyone I'm new to the boards. Over the past few months I've been experiencing problems mainly when it comes to playing games.

13 months ago I built these specs

MSI p7n platinum board.
q6600 quad core.
geforce 9600 512.
4gb ram.


So I built this mainly for high end pc gaming and everything was running fine until about 3 months ago when i started experiencing problems...

In game warcraft 3 everything will be running fine(high fps60-100) for the first 5-10 minutes and then it will straight drop to 1-5fps for no reason. No other programs are running...I'll minimize to task manager to find my cpu usage very high 80-99% which is very unusual for this build. Keep in mind this game is very old and my pc specs shatter what is recommended for this game. So it will lag for a few minutes and then shoot straight back up to 60-100 fps and repeat...

I ran the video stress test in CSS. Another game in which my pc should easily run. I ran it a couple times with all settings on high, and a couple times with them on the lowest possible...I averaged about 10fps for both which is just terrible.

This all started about 2 months ago and I've tried everything I can think of. Formatting didn't do anything and all of my drivers are up to date.

Any help greatly appreciated thanks.

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Old 10-02-2010, 08:47 AM   # 2 (permalink) Top
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sounds uncanny like your cpu is either overheating and 'throttling', or one of your programs is taking the cpu resources (check this out in task manager first).

Check your CPU and GPU temp when its doing it, if you know how, games are very cpu hungry and its almost the only time where your cpu will overheat including extensife cpu usage in windows.

If your CPU is above 59'c it may be throttling, if its any higher than 70'c then thats cause for alarm. I believe the GPU can handle much higher temps, about 90'c+ before it starts causing problems

If everything is normal (upto 50'c) come back to us
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Old 10-02-2010, 11:47 AM   # 3 (permalink) Top
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wow all 4 of my cores are between 80-85c. my gpu is only at 45c. i have 4 good size fans in my case already do i just need to apply more thermal paste or something to the chip?
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well, make sure the chip's fan and heatsink are clean of dust.
also make sure the cables are out of the way (i've had one overheat because the Power supply cables were rapped around the heatsink and fan).
if that doesn't help, you can try a new fan/heatsink, along with some decent thermalpaste/ thermalpaste cleaner like Artic Silver.
also, before buying anything, what are the speeds on your fans? make sure they're running at decent speeds, software like speedfan (free) is usually able to read temp's and change fan speeds (your motherboard maker might have software for you also)
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