Axel Posted December 7, 2008 Content Count: 678 Joined: 08/28/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 7, 2008 A bit of an update It appears as though everything on my computer has low fps My windows media player, games even my music :S Should I pull the back of my tower off and have a look inside there for dust or something? This is making me concerned... Link to comment
raven maniac Posted December 7, 2008 Content Count: 2488 Joined: 10/08/07 Status: Offline Share Posted December 7, 2008 A bit of an update It appears as though everything on my computer has low fps My windows media player, games even my music :S Should I pull the back of my tower off and have a look inside there for dust or something? This is making me concerned... Yeah, turn it off and clean the dust off of your cpu fan/heat sink, GPU fan/heatsink, and any on your chassis fans. Link to comment
Axel Posted December 8, 2008 Content Count: 678 Joined: 08/28/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 8, 2008 Yeah, turn it off and clean the dust off of your cpu fan/heat sink, GPU fan/heatsink, and any on your chassis fans. Im scared incase I ruin it =\ If I do you're buying me a new one!!! If it fixes it I'll be your bitch! Oh wait... I already am =( Link to comment
raven maniac Posted December 8, 2008 Content Count: 2488 Joined: 10/08/07 Status: Offline Share Posted December 8, 2008 (edited) Im scared incase I ruin it =\ If I do you're buying me a new one!!! If it fixes it I'll be your bitch! Oh wait... I already am =( Just make sure you keep yourself grounded, touch a metal piece of your tower's frame before you start cleaning anything off or it's possible you can kill your mobo from ESD(electro-static discharge). If it's not anything with dust in the fans/heat sinks then check the temperatures on your CPU,GPU, & HD because 1 of your fans may have burnt up. Edited December 8, 2008 by raven maniac Link to comment
GOD Posted December 9, 2008 Content Count: 75 Joined: 10/07/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2008 take it out, clean it..make sure it's not overheating. overheating would not be the cause of that much of a drop. most video cards can safely operate into the 90c range. which is quite frankly hard to reach. another reason why his card isnt overheating is because he is experiencing a loss of ~30fps. when video cards, or cpu's for that matter get too hot they are scaled down in speed. but not by 75%. there are safe operating clock ranges for both gpu and cpu, cutting down speed by 75% is not a safe operating spec. so its not overheating, though cleaning out the hsf never hurts! Link to comment
GOD Posted December 9, 2008 Content Count: 75 Joined: 10/07/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 9, 2008 my suggestion and this should 99% gaurante a SIGNIFICANT increase in fps is this 1- back up all data on your hdd's 2- take apart whole computer, and dust everything off (this isnt really needed but you should clean your computer out every 3 months or so, and it helps lower temps a bit) 3- reinstall windows using a clean install (full format) 4- install the newest drivers for everything. 5- install css enjoy your new faster computer- Link to comment
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