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ASrock 970m pro3 voltage issues.

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Topic: ASrock 970m pro3 voltage issues.

Posted By: jeshua
Subject: ASrock 970m pro3 voltage issues.
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 5:49am

i am not sure what is going on but Any time i start a game and heavy load hits. the fans start tanking . and the whole computer starts becoming sluggish, even with 200 fps and then Everything speeds up dramatically . iv' played on other computers. and this one is running horribly. People tell me its' my cpu being tanked by the graphics but that wouldnt explain a voltage drop on the motherboard. Anyone else having this issue ?

windows 8.1
motherboard : Asrock 970m pro3
CPU: AMD FX{TM}-6300 sic-core processor
64 bit system 64 bit processor.
ram: crucial tech 64ba17ob.m16 16 gigs . clock says 798 mhz. with 11 11 11 28
Nvidia Gforce gtx 1060 6 gb

watercooling corsair h100igtx
2 Delta cooling fans. on case.
1 250 gb ssd
1 1tb hybrid drive with 30 gigs ssd for os .

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Posted By: jeshua
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 5:54am

Note i rigged one of the delta fans with a ducktape box on it with small pipes blowing air Straight at the VRM's and southbridge. and the tampatures dont lie .
Temp 1 78F ram.
Temp 2 95F casing next to cpu
Temp 3 104F brige past pci~
Temp 5 watercooling 88F
temp 6 cpu 91 F
Temp 7 94F graphics card.

i have plenty of air moving around in my case and i dust frequently sometimes with a paintbrush a soft one and sometimes with a alcohol dipped Q-tip. and both fans have a sort of filter on it catching dust. i replace them monthly.

Posted By: xhue
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 5:58am

Looks like a bad CPU cooler mounting. Check it out.

Also, install HWiNFO64 or similar and record the temps and volts before and after the gaming starts.

Posted By: jeshua
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 6:18am

ok so i tried posting it .... didnt go all the way through
Sensors

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+- ASRock 970M Pro3 (/mainboard)
| |
| +- Nuvoton NCT6776F (/lpc/nct6776f)
| | +- CPU VCore      :    1.336    1.264    1.344 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/0)
| | +- Voltage #2     :    0.192    0.184    0.192 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/1)
| | +- AVCC           :    3.376    3.376    3.376 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/2)
| | +- 3VCC           :    3.376     3.36    3.376 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/3)
| | +- Voltage #5     :    0.472    0.472    0.472 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/4)
| | +- Voltage #6     :     1.72     1.72     1.72 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/5)
| | +- Voltage #7     :    1.856    1.856    1.856 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/6)
| | +- 3VSB           :    3.472    3.456    3.472 (/lpc/nct6776f/voltage/7)
| | +- Temperature #1 :     36.5     36.5       37 (/lpc/nct6776f/temperature/1)
| | +- Temperature #2 :      -29      -29    -28.5 (/lpc/nct6776f/temperature/2)
| | +- Temperature #3 :       26       26       26 (/lpc/nct6776f/temperature/3)
| | +- Fan #1        :     2220     2202     2224 (/lpc/nct6776f/fan/0)
| | +- Fan #2        :     2076     2061     2093 (/lpc/nct6776f/fan/1)
| | +- Fan Control #1 : 59.6079 59.6079 59.6079 (/lpc/nct6776f/control/0)
| | +- Fan Control #2 :      100      100      100 (/lpc/nct6776f/control/1)
| | +- Fan Control #3 :      100      100      100 (/lpc/nct6776f/control/2)
|
+- AMD FX-6300 (/amdcpu/0)
| +- Bus Speed      : 199.565 199.565 199.566 (/amdcpu/0/clock/0)
| +- CPU Core #1    : 3791.74 3791.74 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/1)
| +- CPU Core #2    : 3791.74 3791.74 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/2)
| +- CPU Core #3    : 3791.74 3791.74 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/3)
| +- CPU Core #4    : 3791.74 3791.74 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/4)
| +- CPU Core #5    : 3791.74 3492.39 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/5)
| +- CPU Core #6    : 3791.74 3791.74 3791.74 (/amdcpu/0/clock/6)
| +- Core #1 - #6   :   21.875   21.375   22.125 (/amdcpu/0/temperature/0)
| +- CPU Total      : 4.94792 3.38542 10.1563 (/amdcpu/0/load/0)
| +- CPU Core #1    :   4.6875    3.125   15.625 (/amdcpu/0/load/1)
| +- CPU Core #2    :     6.25        0 10.9375 (/amdcpu/0/load/2)
| +- CPU Core #3    :     6.25        0 14.0625 (/amdcpu/0/load/3)
| +- CPU Core #4    :    3.125        0     12.5 (/amdcpu/0/load/4)
| +- CPU Core #5    :   4.6875        0 10.9375 (/amdcpu/0/load/5)
| +- CPU Core #6    :   4.6875   4.6875 17.1875 (/amdcpu/0/load/6)
|
+- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (/nvidiagpu/0)
| +- GPU Core       :     1506     1506     1506 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/0)
| +- GPU Memory     :   4006.8   4006.8   4006.8 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/1)
| +- GPU Shader     :     3012     3012     3012 (/nvidiagpu/0/clock/2)
| +- GPU Core       :       35       35       35 (/nvidiagpu/0/temperature/0)
| +- GPU Core       :        0        0        1 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/0)
| +- GPU Memory Controller :        0        0        0 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/1)
| +- GPU Video Engine :        0        0        0 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/2)
| +- GPU Memory     : 5.50671 5.50671 6.54202 (/nvidiagpu/0/load/3)
| +- GPU            :     2602     2588     2609 (/nvidiagpu/0/fan/0)
| +- GPU Fan        :       80       80       80 (/nvidiagpu/0/control/0)
| +- GPU Memory Free : 5805.67 5742.06 5805.67 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/1)
| +- GPU Memory Used : 338.332 338.332 401.941 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/2)
| +- GPU Memory Total :     6144     6144     6144 (/nvidiagpu/0/smalldata/3)

Posted By: jeshua
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 6:19am

Posted By: xhue
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2018 at 1:39am

Hmm, no temp spikes or voltage droops... very strange.

Maybe it's a software issue? Drivers? BIOS? OS? I see you're running Win 8.1, which IMO is a very nice OS.

My advice - rebuild from scratch, check cables, connectors, everything. Update BIOS, if applicable, or just clear CMOS?

Last resort - update OS and/or drivers.

You shouldn't really expect demanding titles to run smoothly, but MOBAs, CS:GO, etc. should run smoothly.

Posted By: jeshua
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2018 at 7:21am

updated everything so that shouldnt be a issue. and i hate windows 10, they tried to forcefully update by actually updating without my permission. causing me to lose all my data. hate microsoft for that. i have cleared cmos quite a few times on large updates. all new sata cables. 850W modular supply comes with custom cables. so all i did was replace the ones i could . bios is current version as well.

AS FOR demanding games to run smoothly. the game itsself is flawless, 200 fps cap, IT RUNS perfectly but during the times i hear my pc's fans slow down and speed up the game slows down, like matrix bullet dodging but At that time its slowing down and speeding up, i lose control of keyboard and mouse function for a split second everything is delayed, Then once the pc fans speed up the game gos' into overdrive like it is timewarping and all the buttons i pressed during the period it has slown down those buttons are pressed really fast. EVEN WHEN IM TYPING it takes me 10 seconds or so to type 4 words because it is spelling it out Rediculously slow .

Posted By: xhue
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2018 at 2:20am

Win 10 is a steaming pile of cr@p, hands down. I too like 8.1.

Another thing to try is https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Run it in background and see which process or hard pagefaults are causing troubles.