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Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
June 15 2011 03:43 GMT
#41
Those temperatures are with SC2 running? Try seeing if you can get the computer to overheat and shut down with something more stressful than a game, like some kind of prime95 or similar to stress the CPU and some kind of FurMark or similar with the GPU:
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
yks
Profile Joined August 2010
United States61 Posts
June 15 2011 03:48 GMT
#42
To be fair, I've never seen a 20c difference in cores. Which hemp was pointing out.

and skyR did misread the wall-of-text-hw-log incorrectly (as you can see when the exact SS of his HW Monitor was posted) which is understandable since it was a wall of text.

But they are correct in the sense that cores can have different temperatures.

hemp was just too hostile.
Kolvacs
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1203 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-15 03:54:26
June 15 2011 03:49 GMT
#43
Do u have the fps in game limited?
(30 for menu screen and 60 for ingame for example)

Edit:
Either with VSync or via Variables file?

Edit 2:
I had overheating issues with my laptop, and setting my laptop's max fps for Sc2 down helped.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-15 03:51:59
June 15 2011 03:51 GMT
#44
If skyR got something wrong, that drops his accuracy to something like 98% at worst. A non-regular shouldn't try and attack him. And saying you can't have 2 cores at way different temps is just idiotic.
sky`380
Profile Joined January 2011
United States49 Posts
June 15 2011 03:59 GMT
#45
I think what he was saying is that your GPU is at 73c even while playing at 1280x1024. Increasing resolution wouldn't make your video card run cooler.

It sounds like your entire system is getting pretty hot. Did anything significant happen before you started experiencing overheating? Are all your fans working properly? How many do you have? Is your case well ventilated and free of obstructions (i.e. dust, cables blocking airflow, case out in the open, etc.)? What is the ambient temperature of the room the computer is in?
Yung
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States727 Posts
June 15 2011 04:06 GMT
#46
On June 15 2011 12:37 JingleHell wrote:
I think homedude who doesn't get thermodynamics is a troll account made with the intent of getting into the hall of shame. Or an idiot. Lets vigilante moderate this shit and call him names and poke him with sticks till he leaves.

I said the same thing, lol
LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 04:24 GMT
#47
On June 15 2011 12:59 sky`380 wrote:
I think what he was saying is that your GPU is at 73c even while playing at 1280x1024. Increasing resolution wouldn't make your video card run cooler.

It sounds like your entire system is getting pretty hot. Did anything significant happen before you started experiencing overheating? Are all your fans working properly? How many do you have? Is your case well ventilated and free of obstructions (i.e. dust, cables blocking airflow, case out in the open, etc.)? What is the ambient temperature of the room the computer is in?


I don't know. I know my brother is a dumbass and watches who knows how many Let's Play from Machinima (when I keep telling him to just save up and buy the games himself).I played normally last night and the night before. Today it just crashed like crazy...
I turn my air conditioning on and its always on full blast in my house (about 60-70?)

I'm gonna change where the computer is (it's in between teh couch and the desk) and I'm gonna see how that works.
Citius, Altius, Fortius
LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 05:30 GMT
#48
Okay. I just moved it and it still crashed...
Erm I have an extra cooling fan in addition to the one in the power supply and processor.
I don't have compressed air right now so I have to wait for that... I've been dusting my computer with a featherduster (rofl i know)
Citius, Altius, Fortius
LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 05:33 GMT
#49
On June 15 2011 12:49 Kolvacs wrote:
Do u have the fps in game limited?
(30 for menu screen and 60 for ingame for example)

Edit:
Either with VSync or via Variables file?

Edit 2:
I had overheating issues with my laptop, and setting my laptop's max fps for Sc2 down helped.


I already limited in the variables.txt
Citius, Altius, Fortius
jaj22
Profile Joined September 2009
United Kingdom1376 Posts
June 15 2011 06:04 GMT
#50
Note that the 5V line is dropping slightly below spec in that HWMonitor shot. Minimum should be no lower than 4.75V. Often a symptom of a faulty, dying or inadequate PSU.

The CPU temperature's not high enough to cause crashes by itself on a stock-clocked system, although it may be a sign of high case temperatures which could cause other components to fail.

LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 07:18 GMT
#51
On June 15 2011 15:04 jaj22 wrote:
Note that the 5V line is dropping slightly below spec in that HWMonitor shot. Minimum should be no lower than 4.75V. Often a symptom of a faulty, dying or inadequate PSU.

The CPU temperature's not high enough to cause crashes by itself on a stock-clocked system, although it may be a sign of high case temperatures which could cause other components to fail.



So what is your proposed solution? Open the case?
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Dhalphir
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia1305 Posts
June 15 2011 07:42 GMT
#52
running the computer with the case open should drop temperatures at least a little bit and allow you to confirm that it is the overheating thats causing crashes (if it runs stable with the case open and lower temperatures, its obviously the overheating)
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Womwomwom
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
5930 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-15 08:13:07
June 15 2011 08:01 GMT
#53
On June 15 2011 15:04 jaj22 wrote:
Note that the 5V line is dropping slightly below spec in that HWMonitor shot. Minimum should be no lower than 4.75V. Often a symptom of a faulty, dying or inadequate PSU.

The CPU temperature's not high enough to cause crashes by itself on a stock-clocked system, although it may be a sign of high case temperatures which could cause other components to fail.


Agreed with this. Dell desktops in enterprise situations run in worse situations than your system so I'm definitely sure its not overheating bringing your computer down. Hell, people were running old ATi Radeon cards fine close to 100 degrees, granted manufacturing processes from then and now have changed a lot but you get the point - its very hard to actually make a desktop shut and throttle itself due to heat.

Especially if its doing this during load, where you are drawing the most power, but this is just a hypothesis. I hate diagnosing computer hardware because its literally impossible to do without spare hardware lying around.

On June 15 2011 16:18 LolitsPing wrote:
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On June 15 2011 15:04 jaj22 wrote:
Note that the 5V line is dropping slightly below spec in that HWMonitor shot. Minimum should be no lower than 4.75V. Often a symptom of a faulty, dying or inadequate PSU.

The CPU temperature's not high enough to cause crashes by itself on a stock-clocked system, although it may be a sign of high case temperatures which could cause other components to fail.



So what is your proposed solution? Open the case?


You can try but its probably going to do jack shit because temperatures are probably not your problem because 70 degrees load is nothing.

If your GPU is hitting 73c @ 1280 x 1024, the temps will be even higher at higher resolutions


How would it. If a card is at load, its at load and its going to put out the same temperatures no matter what resolutions are provided the load stays roughly the same which it should.
LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 09:49 GMT
#54
I know a person who has a lot of spare hardware lying around so...
I'll run it through the person and thanks for confirming that its not an overheating problem =D
Citius, Altius, Fortius
S.O.U.L
Profile Joined March 2011
Latvia149 Posts
June 15 2011 10:47 GMT
#55
change the thermal paste for youre CPU and videocard! you can do it only for the CPU, cause theres mno need for the videocard actually its just an extra xD
CezA
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 15 2011 12:45 GMT
#56
@Womwomwom, he says he has Frames capped in variables.txt, which means he could actually increase video card load by increasing quality.

In Killing Floor, with vsync on, my GPU fans don't even go above 40%, without it, it sounds like a motorcycle drag race when it hits 300+ FPS.
Womwomwom
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
5930 Posts
June 15 2011 13:16 GMT
#57
That's probably just a case of coil whining from the GPU/PSU/motherboard. My GPU does it too whenever I boot up STALKER or Crysis when those intro scenes get like 1000FPS.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 15 2011 13:19 GMT
#58
On June 15 2011 22:16 Womwomwom wrote:
That's probably just a case of coil whining from the GPU/PSU/motherboard. My GPU does it too whenever I boot up STALKER or Crysis when those intro scenes get like 1000FPS.


Nah, my fans actually spin up. It works harder when it's rendering 5x the frames. I've checked with EVGA precision OSD.
LolitsPing
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States285 Posts
June 15 2011 15:56 GMT
#59
On June 15 2011 22:16 Womwomwom wrote:
That's probably just a case of coil whining from the GPU/PSU/motherboard. My GPU does it too whenever I boot up STALKER or Crysis when those intro scenes get like 1000FPS.


actually now that I think about it, I've been hearing some click noises when I'm playing and it freezes temporarily before it completely freezes.
I'll open the case and try and listen for the noise.
Citius, Altius, Fortius
ScootZilla
Profile Joined December 2010
United States37 Posts
June 15 2011 16:05 GMT
#60
Clan dust out of case and clear and air filters if you case has them and clean the fans and heatsink and see if that helps alittle.
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