Absence Notification - Hardware Failure

[Minh]

Divided it into abcd, instead of -, so here we go..

a) How do you know your PC is overheating? Could it not be another issue? Did you tried different OS? (ex. Linux on USB)
Both from the temperature program and by the fact it turns off due to overheating. Linux - I never could use it. Tried W7 but it doesn't recognize GPU, so got stuck on Windows XP SP3.

b) Are you using any temperature monitoring software? ex. HWiNFO
Yes, I'm using Core Temp and used HWiNFO just to check everything else.


c) Which component is overheating? What temperatures it has?
The cores seem to overheat, despite vaccuming and quite "new" radiators. As for temperature, idle-to-low is around 30-40 on both cores, heavy-gaming makes it jump up to around 70-80 degrees, at times even to 100.

d) What type of PC it is, do you know any brands/models?
It's a desktop, using pretty dated elements (e.g. ATI Radeon HD 2400) already without much chance to swap anything due to obsolete motherboard.

To put it short, investing into this PC would be just waste of money (for two years already), yet I cannot afford even mid-range PC as for now. Investing money into the rig that I can afford would be as pointless for many reasons. That's why I got Xbox One S few months ago, as I found it the best alternative.

I've been behind gaming for pretty 6-7 years already, as even Skyrim refused to work in more than 10 fps, so... Yeah. That's why XB1S - especially when component prices went high, with GPU prices nowadays being truly awful. I mean, even PC gaming went nuts when it comes to game prices if you are Polish... thanks EU.

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It's time to let it go. So long, Discovery.