If you let it auto update the vid card driver, then you might want to do a DDU run then install the new driver. Sometimes both Nvidia and Amd drivers get corrupt after a few cycles of updates.
DDU will completely uninstall the vid card driver and any leftover crap...giving you a clean slate for the new vid card driver install.



/e Just for comparison sake ( I keep my room pretty cold... 18C or 64F) here is my Speccy screenshot... I also have a push/pull Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU cooler.












/ee The two main places to blow the dust out...are the CPU cooler's fins and the vid card cooler's fins. Fins = the heatsink itself, not just the fans.



/eee As for the RAM thing... who knows. It's really not supposed to work well with and 8GB set and a 2GB stick. ???

This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 12 2018 07:34pm

its 2x 4gb and the 2gb stick
looks like i need to figure out how to keep my graphics cooler

This post was edited by Lord_Terror on Mar 12 2018 07:38pm

And your motherboard. For the GPU, you can use MSI Afterburner (free) and set a fan curve. Vid card can run at 70-75C all day (100% load), but it is getting old.
The power supply is not the best, depending on age, it may be getting ready to fail. You should blow the dust out of the power supply too.
Max. motherboard temp, (AMD) is 62C also.


How long have you had Win 10 on there and did you "install it" or just upgrade. If upgrade, you might wanna do a clean install.


/e Btw, 2x4GB is called an 8GB set.

This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 12 2018 07:48pm

its been about 2 years for the upgrade (pc is 3 years old) which was an online upgrade.
So if i do a clean install i would have to reinstall windows 8 then upgrade again?

No, not really. I'll PM you.


/e You should be able to just download Windows 10 and make a Win 10 USB stick to install.
AIDA64 Extreme will give you the cd key of your current install.

There are like a bazillion guides for doing a clean install of Win 10, on the internet.

This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 12 2018 08:04pm