

All fans except the GPU who handles it’s own fan are always idling, aka on the lowest specced RPM. So DEFINITELY a heating issue.įinally today my wife was out of town so I could game with speakes instead of headphones… and realized what the core issue is: The fan control isn’t working.

I moved it a bit and it now gives a more powerful airflow directly on the GPU and CPU (before it was aiming to first cool the HDD, but I don’t need it to do that). It’s a pre-built tower and the intake fan was placed awkwardly.I had neglecting cleaning and the CPU, GPU and intake fans were very dusty.I know, I know, but i figure I throw out my issue here as well.įor a while i have noticed my GPU or CPU is throttling due to overheat in Windows when running relatively modern games.ĭuring my trial and error I found out that
