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7 years ago
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Replaced the power supply and motherboard on my rig aaaaaaaaand the system still didn't come up. =/ Made the decision to replace the system almost entirely, and ordered the new parts for my PC. The bits should be here between Friday and Sunday -- whoo!
My past PC had a rough life. Sometime around last June, my AIO CPU watercooler sprung a leak. My GPU, motherboard, almost everything were soaked. I only realized what happened after I came home and noticed certain applications running so slow it felt like time had stopped. Turns out my PC was running upwards of 95C for almost two days. According to every resource I can find, the maximum safe operating temperature for an Intel 5930K is 66.8C. I was 30C over. That's a huge difference.
A PC will start to throttle down when this happens, and after a certain point, the proc should outright shut itself down to prevent from being damaged. For whatever reason mine didn't.
Ever since my PC has been spastic and glitchy, doing odd things like randomly tabbing between windows, opening explorer, performing hotkeys I never process. Windows notifications about receiving a message from Discord would pop up a week later. Task Manager would report Photoshop zero memory despite having a dozen 4K images open. All my USB devices would lag for upwards of 10 seconds and/or spontaneously reconnect (which, honestly, is really fun when drawing).
I thought it was a software issue for the longest time but reinstalling Windows never seemed to fix it. Again, these issues never happened consistently, so troubleshooting something like that becomes incredibly hard./
Those that follow me on Twitter know I've been complaining about PC weirdness for a while -- and they're probably sick of it, too. But yay, I'm excited.
My past PC had a rough life. Sometime around last June, my AIO CPU watercooler sprung a leak. My GPU, motherboard, almost everything were soaked. I only realized what happened after I came home and noticed certain applications running so slow it felt like time had stopped. Turns out my PC was running upwards of 95C for almost two days. According to every resource I can find, the maximum safe operating temperature for an Intel 5930K is 66.8C. I was 30C over. That's a huge difference.
A PC will start to throttle down when this happens, and after a certain point, the proc should outright shut itself down to prevent from being damaged. For whatever reason mine didn't.
Ever since my PC has been spastic and glitchy, doing odd things like randomly tabbing between windows, opening explorer, performing hotkeys I never process. Windows notifications about receiving a message from Discord would pop up a week later. Task Manager would report Photoshop zero memory despite having a dozen 4K images open. All my USB devices would lag for upwards of 10 seconds and/or spontaneously reconnect (which, honestly, is really fun when drawing).
I thought it was a software issue for the longest time but reinstalling Windows never seemed to fix it. Again, these issues never happened consistently, so troubleshooting something like that becomes incredibly hard./
Those that follow me on Twitter know I've been complaining about PC weirdness for a while -- and they're probably sick of it, too. But yay, I'm excited.
They should not get that hot. GPUs are rated to take temperatures far, far higher. Processors aren't. That's not to say they can't go that high, but that the more prolonged they are to that level of heat the sooner they go supernova.
But hopefully everything works in the end for you too.
Computers do weird things when the components start giving up the ghost. Glad you got the majority of your files, though.
Glad to hear you're getting a new PC though!
What sort of specs are you running? ^^
AMD Ryzen is a better bet than Intel at the moment - I'm not even really quoting Intel to customers right now, except for the enthusiasts willing to kill their warranties - because they perform better for the cost and don't have to be delidded due to the CPU heat.
and while i'd call myself a partial enthusiast as far as liking having a system that can run a lot of stuff simultaneously.......cheaping out in a few areas still wins out XD
Power supply, CPU, RAM, motherboard and video card are on that short list.
The case, fans, and CPU cooler (if you overclock...Ryzen's stock coolers are fine for stock CPU speeds and voltages) are things you can get ahead of time. I'd even throw hard drives/SSD's and disc drives on this list - never seen those go bad right from the factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4
If you watercool, it's better to spend the money to do a custom loop. Less likely for the coolant to dry out, the pump to go bad (if you use a D5), or a leak to spring randomly after you get it past 24 hours and used good fittings (like Bitspower or EK).
That's much more expensive, so a better bet is to go with a large air cooler, like a Noctua NH-D15/D15S or a Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 or 4. They are quieter, typically cost less than a 240mm AIO, and this stuff doesn't happen. With good case airflow, they do just as well as an AIO.
The bad thing about Apple, is that they thermal-throttle.
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