PC issues, AMD GPU, overclocking and more, Need Help!

[raelgun]

Find out whats causing the CPU load to be that, don't play the game, just boot up TM and find the culprit, what background tasks do you have running, try disable some of the if needed.
something is running so it needs to be turned off, also I have that CPU, I would drop that too 4.2 to be safe, 4.4 and 4.5 have very high temps and its very hungry on the volts at that point.

Also, this fixed a friends issue with crashing, check your system for dust especially on the CPU and GPU, if no background tasks are causing this, something is causing high temps to occur and creates a throttle on one of those 2.

Also download prime 95 and just youtube how to use it if you need to, and run it, and see what CPU temps you get, anything over 80 degrees on prime is a huge no no.

Also download MSI kombuster, this taxes the GPU and check the temps on that, again 80 degrees is the threshold here.

You may say you are getting 70 degrees now, but so did my friend, in game was another beast, just check the innards of your system fully.

In game load to near 100% is fine, it should be a lot lower then that if you minimise the game though into TM.

[ObeiKinstar]

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OK thankyou,

Ran prime 95, determined 4.4 was running way too hot, almost got to 100°, so I backed it down to 4.2, prime showing 80° [much better lol]

In game I'm not going over 70° but really staying in low 60's, much better and so far have not crashed out of FF

I did check my TM but there is nothing else running save some very small processes and such from windows, but with the game off I'm at 1-3% cpu load

Also I just air dusted my pc this morning but it was pretty clean to begin with (there was a couple dust balls that came outta the back corner tho)