PC Drivers & Software

[smanev]

Hello, I have issues with my PC. 

It's like 6 months old, and It's absolutely disgusting, and I've tried everything to fix this. The PC randomly freezes. Sometimes every minute, sometimes once every 30 mins, but it's just unbearable.

This doesn't only happen when gaming, when I'm just scrolling social media, or chatting on Viber, etc. as well.

It's especially annoying when I'm working, when I have more than 5-6 tabs open it's going mad. There's more freezetime than worktime.

My setup in screenshots.

Is there any solution to this? Or it's just not worth the stress and I need to buy a new PC?

[helixo56]

Update bios, check your temps, update windows, install chipset drivers is a possible solution

[BigAl01]

I bet it's a problem with the chipset drivers, especially if the CPU is a newer version that came out after the motherboard was introduced.  Try the autodetect and install tool here, and possibly the recently introduced Adrenalin 25.2.1 (optional) driver as well.

[smanev]

Done, done, done done, done done, done done, done done, done done, done done, done and done.

Bought new ram, updated bios (tried several bioses), installed drivers, new windows, formatted...

It just starts randomly heating after like an hour of working (not even working, even if it just stays on on a random website, fans go crazy pc goes hot and it starts freezing every minute for a couple of minutes.

I have to restart it, cool it down, and it's available for use for another 30 minutes kekw

[BigAl01]

Tell us about your CPU cooling solution - air or an AIO?  What are your CPU temperature readings looking like over the course of an hour when you say it's heating up?  Did you remove the sticker from the CPU cooler before applying thermal paste?

[smanev · Accepted solution]

I didn't build the PC, the guys at the store did. Just opened it. There was therma paste, everything was good. Cooler was working fine. 

But finally found a fix lol

Turns out the system was somehow reading 80-90 temperatures, but when I touched it, it was actually not very warm, normal temp, like 35-40. So I looked for solutions for that, why it's showing untrue temperatures, and the solution I found was to reduce processor power management from 100% to 99% (That's what it said) But I turned it to 90% and it's working perfectly. 

It was weird at first, because as soon as I did that, it felt buggy and the program reading the CPU temp went from like 80 to 50 within seconds.

Hopefully this helps anyone with the same / similar model

Solution:

Showing the real temperatures now, and it hasn't freezed for a day (to be continued...) which has not happened in months.

[BigAl01]

Very strange.  I'm glad you found a solution to your problem though.

[Bmacek01]

Also, 16 GB of RAM is pretty light for a modern system, especially one with integrated graphics.  What's your RAM % usage?  If that page file is virtual memory, you're putting a real drain on your performance and upgrading to 32 GB would be a step in the right direction.

[smanev]

This is what I see with just a couple of chromes tabs open

[smanev]

And as soon as I opened a game

Does this mean I need more ram? 😄

[Bmacek01]

It's probably the biggest improvement that you're going to get for $100.

[smanev]

Ordered it, we'll see 😄 Thanks