Calum McLure
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Had this problem for a while now, every few minutes when I'm playing a game my CPU temp shoots up to 255°C, obviously not going this hot or it would melt my machine but it causes the 4 cores to be throttled to 1.4gHz and slows the game right down. It usually happens at 34°C, but I noticed while playing Bioshock Infinite it reached 39°C, it has never gotten that high before without going to 255°C.
I know the temperatures there seem a bit low, it used to hover around 30-40°C when idle and be around 60°C under load then shoot up at around 63°C, but ever since I flashed the BIOS the temps have been getting read lower.
It's been happening ever since I installed my new graphics card, a 7950, I had a 6450 which wouldn't let me play the kind of games I am now so I don't know if that would cause it as well.
I have 2 fans on the front and side of the case sucking air in, 2 on the back as exhausts and the CPU fan as well, I have also applied new thermal paste so I wouldn't have thought overheating would be a problem.
Any idea's what the problem could be. cheers in advance?
Specs are:
CPU = FX-4170 4.2gHz
GPU = Sapphire HD7950 3gb Vapor-x
Ram = 1 x 8gb 1333mhz
PSU = Corsair 650w TX
Mobo = MSI 760GM-P21
I know the temperatures there seem a bit low, it used to hover around 30-40°C when idle and be around 60°C under load then shoot up at around 63°C, but ever since I flashed the BIOS the temps have been getting read lower.
It's been happening ever since I installed my new graphics card, a 7950, I had a 6450 which wouldn't let me play the kind of games I am now so I don't know if that would cause it as well.
I have 2 fans on the front and side of the case sucking air in, 2 on the back as exhausts and the CPU fan as well, I have also applied new thermal paste so I wouldn't have thought overheating would be a problem.
Any idea's what the problem could be. cheers in advance?
Specs are:
CPU = FX-4170 4.2gHz
GPU = Sapphire HD7950 3gb Vapor-x
Ram = 1 x 8gb 1333mhz
PSU = Corsair 650w TX
Mobo = MSI 760GM-P21