"We thought too much force had been applied to the chip by installing one of those coolers with an electric screwdriver."Be careful putting together your new Skylake builds
Intel Skylake CPUs are bending under the pressure of some coolers - PC Gamer
So I'm playing Dragon Age Inquisition with ArcheAge running on the same PC I just built in the background, been doing that successfully for a few days. Then my computer locks up. Doesn't do that much, but I chalk it up to not having reinstalled windows in forever (will do that when my new SSD gets in). When I reboot I relaunch everything and get shit for FPS in both games. Like from 50fps to 10fps in Dragon Age Inquistion on max. When I set it to low settings it's playable. Fine. I update my drivers and try either game. Still getting shit FPS. I reboot, then run unigine heaven and get much worse results than before. When I first built my PC I got slighter better results than:
http://i.imgur.com/jp7EHNy.jpg
But now I get
Any tips?
Thanks. I didn't change much in bios, but I reset the defaults anyway and everything is back to normal. I'll keep an eye on the temps. I don't think archeage renders while in the background, it's just in memory.
So I'm still seeing a similar experience. I can't tell how long it's been going on but I get really unreliable benchmarks. When it's working, it works great and everything performs to specification, but sometimes it's about half as good as it should be.
I have a GTX970, I704790K, Asus Z97-AR.
GTX970 is using latest drivers (350.12).
Firestrike 4173 Details
http://i.imgur.com/xmUwdFD.png
Firestrike 4902 Score
http://i.imgur.com/6wmVfcd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3EAhETJ.png
Firestrike 7302
http://i.imgur.com/a46obCu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1DfdZsh.png
Firestrike 9892
http://i.imgur.com/kRe8Aex.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7iYrzTx.png
GPU-Z under load
http://i.imgur.com/Kc4DR7k.png
Good Unigine Heaven Score Extreme
http://i.imgur.com/lINp6Pk.jpg
Good Performance Test
http://i.imgur.com/zU05ttd.png
You can see from the Firestrike logs that the temps all look good.
Any ideas?
So this is still a thing =\ and I'm getting tired of rebooting my PC 2-3 times to 'roll the dice' to get good performance just so I can play some fallout 4. Anyone have some fresh ideas of what to try?I updated my bios and on the first reboot it had good performance, but I have no idea if it fixed it or if it's random or whatever. I'd reboot 5 more times and try it but I'd rather not!
Is that a Fractal R5? I decided to go with that on my new build too.Im worried about the airflow.
the gaps are the history between runs of the benchmarking tool I use (3dmark). In all the screenshots the relevant part is the right side (most recent).What's that big gap of nothing?
No blue screens, never overclocked.Is your gpu overclocked? Seems like it's throttling. What about any blue screens of death or anything?
I bought from them way back in the early 2000's, don't remember much, but i did get the components, if you're wondering if they are a fly by night, i doubt it.Has anyone used Superbiiz before? Used pcpartpicker to pick out my components, the processor was $40 or so less at Superbiiz than anywhere else (other than in person Microcenter, which isn't in my area). Now a week later I'm sitting around with my entire rig built but no processor. The order status says "Released for Distribution" so I sent them an email asking what that meant and what the approximate time would be. The response was basically that means we have the item in stock and a notification was sent out to the warehouse employees/stockers to ship it out but that they were experiencing high volume due to holiday sales. They did not give any indication when it would actually ship. That seems absurd to me, if the item is in stock it should not take over a week to send it out. Frustrating!
You did all the basic overheating checks right? made sure all fans spin, made sure power supply fan spins, double check and maybe even change out the heatsink/thermal paste onNo blue screens, never overclocked.