PCH Temperature

Hi all,

I have the 17 R4 7820 GTX 1080 that I bought a year ago. Had iunlock do the repaste/repad gloriousness and have amazing temps from that on CPU/GPU, however I've noticed lately my PCH temp is getting up to the mid to high 80s. I do get some stuttering problems. What is a good temp for the PCH to be at? Is mid to high 80s too high? Can that cause stuttering when gaming? Should I be looking at doing the paste/aluminum heatsink mod to it?

Any info would be great I looked at the other threads, and there's one on stuttering, but not sure if that's caused by PCH specifically or not. Thanks all!

 

you can use hwinfo software along with msi afterburner to enable temp stats while gaming, see what kinda stutter you get, whether your cpu is throttling or gpu.. you can check their clock speeds, there are lots of factors which can cause stutter ingame.. either it could be hardware related or could be software..

 

PCH Mod is good, but it all depends on ur Case Air flow..

 

Used afterburner and hwinfo. The GPU is throttling. Goes to 83 degrees, then stutters, performance drops to 0, temp drops to 77 degrees, then picks up again. Stutters every 15-20 seconds or so and each time the graph for GPU drops to 0. Any idea how to fix this? I didn't think throttling for it happened at 83.

 

So much for iunlocks amazing temps and pch mod. How much did you pay for that bare minimum work? Thermal pads on top of the pch for under a $1.

 

Whats you PCH cooling solution, CPU speed, OC on GPU or not... GPU driver version?

 

@propeldragon he didn't do a PCH mod on my machine, so it's not him.

@mihaispd currently no PCH cooling solution, CPU speed is stock, no OC on CPU or GPU, and GPU driver version is 24.21.13.9764

 

Errr, make that driver version 397.93.

 

Bios version and Windows build?
I reach 80-85 but my PCH doesn't throttle ...so...gpuz ...reads? core clock and memory clock on GPU?
What are you using afterburner for?

 

If the GPU is throttling you, as you have discovered, I'd start by taking it apart, cleaning out the fan fins and heatsinks with a strong hoover, or with a strong air spray, then once clean, I'd then remove the heatsinks, clear out old thermal grease and apply new one, if there are thermal pads need to replace them all but make sure they are the correct thickness, then I'd do something about the PCH as well, since you're at it. I'd use a good quality thermal grease but do not pay through the nose, much is speculation IMO, and you'd need to repaste often, depending on use and how hot it gets daily. And I'd make sure the heatsinks make good contact with the GPU/CPU before adding any thermal grease if not try to see where the problems are maybe the heatsink has warped only takes a mm or less.

 

Dude that GPU temp seems a bit high. Can you post an hwinfo with the GPU details on it like power usage voltages clock speeds etc

What paste was used in the repaste on the GPU?