PC keeps losing power

[Zeito]

Sometimes, but then they return to normal

is 60 degrees idle normal?

Also, ArmA seems to work fine, and I would regard it as being more intense than a game like rocket league or BF4

For what component? Idle with no load 60c is normal for graphics depending on airflow in the case. For a CPU a 60c idle is pretty high.

Arma is a very CPU intensive game so it would be cooking that chip to the max. If it's happening in more GPU intensive games, can you try a different GPU? The First gen Core Ix series do not have integrated GPUs unfortunately.

I'll have to blag a trip over to our office in Surrey at this rate and come check it out personally!

 

[Daanish]

For what component? Idle with no load 60c is normal for graphics depending on airflow in the case. For a CPU a 60c idle is pretty high.

Arma is a very CPU intensive game so it would be cooking that chip to the max. If it's happening in more GPU intensive games, can you try a different GPU? The First gen Core Ix series do not have integrated GPUs unfortunately.

I'll have to blag a trip over to our office in Surrey at this rate and come check it out personally!

xD at the last part. 

CPU is idling at 60. Here is a screenshot of my speccy at the moment:

(All I have open is steam, chrome, ts, and possibly some sneaky background apps that auto start and I cant be bothered to uninstall)

The GPU was provided by my local store as a replacement for my 2 old cards they thought were causing the problem. Perhaps it is a GPU issue 0_o

 

[Zeito]

xD at the last part. 

CPU is idling at 60. Here is a screenshot of my speccy at the moment:

(All I have open is steam, chrome, ts, and possibly some sneaky background apps that auto start and I cant be bothered to uninstall)

The GPU was provided by my local store as a replacement for my 2 old cards they thought were causing the problem. Perhaps it is a GPU issue 0_o

Seems a tad high for CPU really, given that it's a good 4-5+ years old that temp could be down to thermal grease failure and/or a cooler/radiator full of shit. You could try removing the cooler and re-applying the paste but i cant see it resolving your problems, especially if arma is just dandy since it's very cpu intensive.

It could be a faulty GPU, but you'd need another machine to test it with, or another GPU to test in the machine. Or really a whole other machine to test each component.

Any mates nearby with spares?

 

[Daanish]

Seems a tad high for CPU really, given that it's a good 4-5+ years old that temp could be down to thermal grease failure and/or a cooler/radiator full of shit. You could try removing the cooler and re-applying the paste but i cant see it resolving your problems, especially if arma is just dandy since it's very cpu intensive.

It could be a faulty GPU, but you'd need another machine to test it with, or another GPU to test in the machine. Or really a whole other machine to test each component.

Any mates nearby with spares?

Yeh I can ask a couple. One of them is building a PC in a couple weeks so I could do it then

 

[Zeito]

Have you run any stress-tests or benchmarking @GP. Daanish? 

 

[Daanish]

Have you run any stress-tests or benchmarking @GP. Daanish? 

Yes, a few months ago I ran heavyload stress tester for a few hours and all was OK. What other testers are good?

 

[Zeito]

Just try a few things that will stress components and see if we can get one to make it trip the pc. On steam you can download the 3D Mark Demo which will put your pc and graphics through its paces, you can try FurMark and the Unigine Haven benchmark too. See if any of those make it throw a wobbler.

 

[lionel]

It's possible, but this would cause a bluescreen i'd imagine and not a total power off unless it was some catastrophic failure and all the ram ejected at once?

if its thermal expansion, then no it wont necessarily cause bluescreen as the ram is detected as detached, but generally yeah ram will cause a bluescreen, just in the case I was dealing with Nope.

Feel free to use my bitcoin generator to stress test your machine

 

[Ronnie Pickering]

Just try a few things that will stress components and see if we can get one to make it trip the pc. On steam you can download the 3D Mark Demo which will put your pc and graphics through its paces, you can try FurMark and the Unigine Haven benchmark too. See if any of those make it throw a wobbler.

You're saying that a3 would clock your cpu at highest so i geuss higher temps. but weirdly my cpu get's hotter in example fallout than arma 3