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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
February 27, 2016 at 7:36 am
(February 26, 2016 at 4:07 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Shhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhh.... Microsoft knows what's best for us.... Because they care.....
I have to say that except for Vista, which was a steaming pile of shit, each version of Windows has represented a real improvement. I'm not a huge fan of Windows 8, but even in that OS there were some nice improvements, like super-fast boot times.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
February 27, 2016 at 7:42 am
(February 27, 2016 at 7:36 am)bennyboy Wrote: I have to say that except for Vista, which was a steaming pile of shit, each version of Windows has represented a real improvement. I'm not a huge fan of Windows 8, but even in that OS there were some nice improvements, like super-fast boot times.
I had absolutely no problems with Vista. Used to run it for a very long time on several machines. Probably as long as I ran XP.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
February 28, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Anyone has any deeper knowledge of Win10. I notice, hardware temperatures are about 10 degrees lower than they were under Win7. Might be that SpeedFan gave me false readings then or now.
Also I notice that my internet connection is 200 KBs faster than it was under the old system. My provider's the same, as is the hardware. Living in a rural area with crappy connections and only one provider to choose from, 200 KBs seem like the world to me.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
February 28, 2016 at 6:58 pm
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(February 28, 2016 at 12:38 pm)abaris Wrote: Anyone has any deeper knowledge of Win10. I notice, hardware temperatures are about 10 degrees lower than they were under Win7. Might be that SpeedFan gave me false readings then or now.
Also I notice that my internet connection is 200 KBs faster than it was under the old system. My provider's the same, as is the hardware. Living in a rural area with crappy connections and only one provider to choose from, 200 KBs seem like the world to me.
All temperatures, or just CPU? I can believe the CPU would be cooler, as a newer Windows might make better use of your GFX card.
As for internet speed-- I've had a tech guy here who gets 450Mb/s on my internet connection, where I usually only get 200-300 (and I use Windows 7)-- so it's very possible that Windows is prioritizing things in a way that limit blistering speeds. Run ookla speed test, and the number you get is pretty much what you're running.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
February 28, 2016 at 7:11 pm
(February 28, 2016 at 6:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote: All temperature's, or just CPU? I can believe the CPU would be cooler, as a newer Windows might make better use of your GFX card.
CPU. Everything else is pretty much as was. CPU rose into the 70ies under win7. Under 10 it stays in the 60ies when under duress. Normal operating temperature is as was. About 38 to 40 degrees.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
March 1, 2016 at 9:41 am
(February 28, 2016 at 7:11 pm)abaris Wrote: (February 28, 2016 at 6:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote: All temperature's, or just CPU? I can believe the CPU would be cooler, as a newer Windows might make better use of your GFX card.
CPU. Everything else is pretty much as was. CPU rose into the 70ies under win7. Under 10 it stays in the 60ies when under duress. Normal operating temperature is as was. About 38 to 40 degrees.
I'd say two things about that: 1) congratulations; 2) if you ever use your CPU for intensive activites, like sound or video processing, you might want to be extra careful.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
March 1, 2016 at 9:45 am
(March 1, 2016 at 9:41 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say two things about that: 1) congratulations; 2) if you ever use your CPU for intensive activites, like sound or video processing, you might want to be extra careful.
Core temperature is significantly lower. In the 50ies when stressed. As far as I understand it, core is the more important temperature, since it actually measures the inside.
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RE: Any computer nerds here? Hard reboots
March 31, 2016 at 7:57 am
(February 23, 2016 at 8:42 pm)abaris Wrote: So I bought a premade system last year.
AMD A8-6600K APU
8 Gigs DDR 3
Win 7 64
The only thing I did was to deactivate the built in videocard and to replace it with a Geforce GTX 650 ti.
These last few weeks I have hard system reboots when either watching web videos, such as Youtube or Vimeo and in games like Mass Effect 3 where there are cinematics. It only happens when videos are playing. Not during actual gameplay and not when the computer is simply running other programs.
I browsed the web extensively for an explanation and installed Speedfan to do some monitoring. Now I noticed that CPU temperature as well as Core temperature go wild when a video is played. From an idle of 42 degrees C (CPU) and 7 degrees C (Core), temperature rises to 70 CPU and 59 Core within three minutes. So, my guess is, at longer videos it performs an emergency shutdown because temperatures actually go to high.
GPU temperature on the other hand stays constant.
That's inexplainable to me, since simply playing a video shouldn't stress the CPU as much. That's why I never buy premade systems and always build the system myself - component by component. Thus I always know exactly what is in my computer and its quality.
AMD CPUs have always been and will probably always be stoves.
As for the high temps, they shouldn't bother you much. A video can raise the CPU temperature (GPU temp as well) depending on the codec used for the video conversion. x264 and x265 raise my CPU and GPU temps a little while a regular XviD doesn't change the temps at all. The best you can do is to put some silver thermal paste on your GPU and CPU and manually control the fan speed of GPU. As for the CPU, you can enter BIOS and set speed for the CPU fan but that depends on your motherboard and the BIOS version it has and whether or not your CPU fan has 4 pins or 3. If it has 4 pins attached to the motherboard, you could set speeds for it but if it's with 3, you can't.
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