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- Dec 1, 2007
- Location
- Near Toronto Canada
Lately I've been losing performance in games and experiencing strange glitches. I wonder if this is my CPU..
The reason is that I just noticed under load my 6550 hits 80c. that's hot.
I'm on stock cooling with the overclock below.
It could also be the Mobo or GPU.. Please help me.
This issue began as visibly reduced framerates in my games that I play. At first, it only started to happen when I exited one game and loaded another-- as if some kind of hardware resource wasn't freed up. If I restarted the machine the problem would go away. Now restarting the machine has no effect.
Then I started seeing weird video glitches like these:
You can see in the first two that the glitch is the same on the two different maps. The glitch pattern only changes when I restart the game.
And most strangely, sometimes I get this strange brightness glitch
http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/...w¤t=wic_online2008-11-2600-57-59-90.flv
See Video
I've confirmed this is a hardware problem because I've had these same issues on two completely seperate drives with seperate OS's which do not see eachother.
They even have totally different:
Motherboard drivers
Videocard drivers
Sound drivers
just to be sure.
I also get very uneven performance. For example last night the World in conflict benchmark got me an average rate of 48 with a minimum of 25. Today it was 48 and 31. How can performance vary so much?
I ran MEMTEST in safemode to test the most ram possible and completed 2000% (15HRS). 0 errors on both sticks.
My system is:
Asus P5K Premium P35
BFG 8800GTS g92
ASUS Xonar D2 PCI
2x1024 Corsair Dominator 1066
5-5-5-15-2T 518Mhz (at POST says 1039)
E6550@433x7 3.04Ghz 1.33ish Vcore
Antec Sonata w/500W earthwatts
all voltages auto. Ram set to 2.1V as per mfg. spec.
System Temps:
I just played WiC on max for 2 hours. MAX temp recorded 70 average 60-65 during gameplay.
GPU maxed at 73 and averaged high 60s-70
HARDWARE FAILURES I'VE HAD IN THE YEAR I HAVE HAD THE SYSTEM SO FAR:
Seagate HDD Failed 5 months ago. Replaced with WD
(bizzarely- my laptop, on AC power, also had the HD die a week later)
RAM (mushkin
1066) failed 2 months ago. Replaced with corsair.
BAD STUFF THAT HAS HAPPENED TO SYSTEM:
1Kinda got hot at one point. Forgot to clean it for awhile. When Mushkin ram failed opened case and dust was completely covering the CPU HS resulting in crappy cooling. Did not check temps at that time but when everything is clean my peak under load is about 50 celsius on the CPU and 60-65 on the GPU
2 I smoke a lot. System is in a smokey room. Smoke=tar=dust STICKS to stuff... I don't know if this tar conducts electricity or not... Just putting it out there to help you help me
3 I once removed the HS from the GPU (about six months ago. It has worked fine since AFAIK. Did not begin getting these problems until 1 month ago)
After I blew all the dust out I replaced the HS properly afaik. No thermal pads were damaged AFAIK.
The reason is that I just noticed under load my 6550 hits 80c. that's hot.
I'm on stock cooling with the overclock below.
It could also be the Mobo or GPU.. Please help me.
This issue began as visibly reduced framerates in my games that I play. At first, it only started to happen when I exited one game and loaded another-- as if some kind of hardware resource wasn't freed up. If I restarted the machine the problem would go away. Now restarting the machine has no effect.
Then I started seeing weird video glitches like these:
You can see in the first two that the glitch is the same on the two different maps. The glitch pattern only changes when I restart the game.
And most strangely, sometimes I get this strange brightness glitch
http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/...w¤t=wic_online2008-11-2600-57-59-90.flv
See Video
I've confirmed this is a hardware problem because I've had these same issues on two completely seperate drives with seperate OS's which do not see eachother.
They even have totally different:
Motherboard drivers
Videocard drivers
Sound drivers
just to be sure.
I also get very uneven performance. For example last night the World in conflict benchmark got me an average rate of 48 with a minimum of 25. Today it was 48 and 31. How can performance vary so much?
I ran MEMTEST in safemode to test the most ram possible and completed 2000% (15HRS). 0 errors on both sticks.
My system is:
Asus P5K Premium P35
BFG 8800GTS g92
ASUS Xonar D2 PCI
2x1024 Corsair Dominator 1066
5-5-5-15-2T 518Mhz (at POST says 1039)
E6550@433x7 3.04Ghz 1.33ish Vcore
Antec Sonata w/500W earthwatts
all voltages auto. Ram set to 2.1V as per mfg. spec.
System Temps:
I just played WiC on max for 2 hours. MAX temp recorded 70 average 60-65 during gameplay.
GPU maxed at 73 and averaged high 60s-70
HARDWARE FAILURES I'VE HAD IN THE YEAR I HAVE HAD THE SYSTEM SO FAR:
Seagate HDD Failed 5 months ago. Replaced with WD
(bizzarely- my laptop, on AC power, also had the HD die a week later)
RAM (mushkin
1066) failed 2 months ago. Replaced with corsair.
BAD STUFF THAT HAS HAPPENED TO SYSTEM:
1Kinda got hot at one point. Forgot to clean it for awhile. When Mushkin ram failed opened case and dust was completely covering the CPU HS resulting in crappy cooling. Did not check temps at that time but when everything is clean my peak under load is about 50 celsius on the CPU and 60-65 on the GPU
2 I smoke a lot. System is in a smokey room. Smoke=tar=dust STICKS to stuff... I don't know if this tar conducts electricity or not... Just putting it out there to help you help me
3 I once removed the HS from the GPU (about six months ago. It has worked fine since AFAIK. Did not begin getting these problems until 1 month ago)
After I blew all the dust out I replaced the HS properly afaik. No thermal pads were damaged AFAIK.
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