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| Icone |
Hey all,
I recently bought myself a brand new computer setup for my music production. This included an AMD Dual Core processor. This one works like a breeze for what I bought it for, though I do have a pretty awkward problem when trying to play any game whatsoever in between all that music.
Normally, when playing at high settings, the games always start out very, very fine and runs supersmoothly. Though when being on an average 5 minutes into the game, it SERIOUSLY drops in framerate. I tried testing whether the CPU couldn't handle it and reduced graphical settings enormously, though this wasn't the case - the problem stayed.
I read up on quite some things on the net since then; e.g. installed the original AMD Dual Core driver, with Windows XP hotfix for it, though without any result...
Did anyone encounter the same problem? Is it really caused by the CPU, or does this problem lie somewhere else?
I'd really, really appreciate it if somebody could help me out on this!
Thanks in advance!
Wim |
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| stren |
| sounds like the processor is overheating. If that's the case, buy a better cooling fan |
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| Coup |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
sounds like the processor is overheating. If that's the case, buy a better cooling fan |
Thats a good place to start. Open up some CPU monitoring software which will read CPU temps, vcore (voltage to CPU) and stuff. Make sure your vcore in the bios is within the CPU spec. After you have some monitoring software run a stress test such as Prime95 (simple tried and tested favourite) - this will load out ur CPU at 100% load simulating what games do. Keep an eye on ur temps and if after 5mins ur temp is hitting the recommended limit, or going beyond, then thats probably whats causing problems in games.
If u've paid for an amd dual core u want a top quality aftermarket cooler like a thermalright xp-90/120 (do these fit dual core??) u dont want to just use what came with it, stock heatsinks are nowhere near able to handle the task, not unless u pootle around ms word all the time. |
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| stevieboy32808 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Icone
Hey all,
I recently bought myself a brand new computer setup for my music production. |
If your definition of recently is about a month or so and you use the pc a lot then I'd go for the defragementation. The same thing happenend to me when playing a game on my pc and it's really fast. After defragmenation everything was well, but don't ignore the cooling fan issues either as the other users have advised. |
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| yujie__ |
| did u get the amd dual core patch fixed? |
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| igottaknow |
| could this be a not enuff ram problem? |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Coup
Thats a good place to start. Open up some CPU monitoring software which will read CPU temps, vcore (voltage to CPU) and stuff. Make sure your vcore in the bios is within the CPU spec. After you have some monitoring software run a stress test such as Prime95 (simple tried and tested favourite) - this will load out ur CPU at 100% load simulating what games do. Keep an eye on ur temps and if after 5mins ur temp is hitting the recommended limit, or going beyond, then thats probably whats causing problems in games.
If u've paid for an amd dual core u want a top quality aftermarket cooler like a thermalright xp-90/120 (do these fit dual core??) u dont want to just use what came with it, stock heatsinks are nowhere near able to handle the task, not unless u pootle around ms word all the time. |
I'm not sure about Dual-Core's but the AMD Athlon 64's didn't have trouble running with stock HSF: hell, some could be overclocked up to 400mhz with stock. |
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| Icone |
I don't think the RAM or defragmentation could be an issue, since both are ok I think.
I will definately check up on BIOS settings and the like, thanks for the tip! |
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| OrZonE |
| Could be that your video card is overheating, make sure its fan is working properly. |
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| Coup |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrZonE
Could be that your video card is overheating, make sure its fan is working properly. |
another good idea. |
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| Icone |
I think I have found a possible solution, of not the answer... I have heard from various other posts that it could rather be a graphical problem as well, rather than a CPU problem so I started to investigate more closely my new GPU card.
Guess what, the card is malfunctioning; the fan doesn't even appear to be willing to turn, no matter whatever connectors I try. No working temperature was set at about 70°C or higher, which is - so to say - friggin' hot. I'll better send this one back to the shop and ask for a replacement.
Could it be problem solved after this? :) |
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| Coup |
| It wouldnt harm while you're investigating that route to stress test your rig, even if it was only for an hour just to make sure your CPU temps dont exceed their stated limits, rules one major possibility while u deal with the RMA on your card. |
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