For today's video, I'm gonna diagnose and fix the regular hard crashes while gaming that I've had
with this Newegg ABS system. And then after that I'm gonna go to an innocent little local pc shop,
to try and fix the 'hotter than a mild afternoon on venus' gaming temps that we've had with the
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Reinstalling windows. That is almost always my go-to first step to fix pretty much any problem
I run into in my day-to-day life. And this system is no different. So, the first thing that I did
when I came back into the office on Monday, was to make sure that Battlefield 5 was still hard
crashing to the desktop more regularly than it normally does. And, well yeah, it did. 15 minutes
into the first session, and the game would hard crash to the desktop. Subsequent sessions would
crash after about five or six minutes, which is actually the exact same behavior I saw last week
while initially testing the system. The first Battlefield 5 session after a cold boot of the
system would last the longest, and then subsequent gaming sessions would crash significantly more
regularly. This behavior made me think that it was a temperature-related issue, maybe the VRM was
overheating, but those temperatures weren't really alarming at this point. I reinstalled windows and
this is quite anti-climactic but that fixed it. That was it. It was a problematic Windows install,
which it almost always is with pre-built. After reinstalling windows I got 42 minutes into a
session of battlefield 5 without a single hard crash to the desktop. Which is more than twice
as long as I could get before. Battlefield 5 also didn't hard crash once in any of the subsequent
temperature testings I did with the cooling upgrade. So, yeah! Reinstalling windows fixed
it. So, the moral of the story here, is if you buy a pre-built, regardless if you have stability
issues or not, I would reinstall windows on that. Because it clears out all of the bloatware
and it makes the system feel a lot less like it's got Alma living in it. Oh yes, and on a quick
side note, in the comment section of the last video there was quite a lot of concern about the
memory configuration, and people were saying that that may be the reason for the stability issues.
While out of the box, the ram was clocked at 2666 megahertz with pretty loose timings,
they didn't enable any XMP profiles. But just to make sure, I did run mem test for about an hour
and 13 minutes without getting a single error, so the memory configuration seems to be fine.
But with that let's go to the local pc shop, buy some things and then try and fix those hideous
temperatures, which still persist after the windows reinstall, because obviously, they would.
Okay, I am back from the local PC shop where I went looking for upgrades for our pre-built.
And considering that it's a small local PC shop, it's a bit like going vegetable shopping at a Beet
farm. Like, yeah, you're not going to have much of a choice. However, they did have one of these,
which is a hyper 212 led. A lot of you may be thinking, but Dawid, it is no longer 2014.
We shouldn't be excited about this cooler. But, the reason that we're excited about it is because
this is actually the best silent cooler on Newegg. Still. In 2021! And there was some interest in the
previous video to test the best-selling cooler in the best-selling system. So we can do that!
And then the other thing that I got, was was two fans. Very fancy! These aren't rgb,
they just have a static white led in them. Which is going to be problematic for color matching,
considering that the hyper 212 just has a static red led in it. But anyway, we'll worry about that
later. What I want to do with these two fans, is use them as intakes in the top of the case. Which
may be a bit controversial, but considering the fact that the front of that DeepCool case
chokes those intake fans so hard, I feel like I need to censor the footage of it. The top maybe
our best bet to get fresh air into this case. With that, let's try and fix our little ABS system.
Okay, uh, as you can see. It was less an aesthetic pc Pimpin that we did,
than a thoroughly practical Pimpin. Which funnily enough was actually my pimp name back in the day.
But with that out the way, let's fire this up and see how much this helps the gaming tempts. Now,
unfortunately, we didn't directly do anything to the graphics card's cooler to help with its gaming
temperatures, but I'm hoping the fact that we've actually got some fresh air coming into the case
through the top, I'm hoping that that's enough to help its temperatures while gaming. But
after these tests, we'll take that graphics card apart and see what we can do to improve
those temperatures further. Oh, wow! Okay, so it's already way better while loading! Before, the CPU
would occasionally hit a hundred degrees celsius, and now it's in the 60s! So that's already so much
better. Okay, this is about 15 minutes into a gaming session. Considering that we're working
with air coolers, everything should be thermally saturated now and well the temperatures haven't
really been climbing. Look at how much better they are! We're averaging about in the low
60s in terms of CPU temperatures. Which is significantly cooler than the mid to high 80s
that we were in before. In terms of graphics card temperatures, it's still running pretty hot. It's
not much cooler than before but it's definitely better than playing jump rope with that 83
degrees celsius graphics card temperature barrier. In terms of gaming performance,
it shouldn't make much of a difference, but those temperatures are looking way better
so with that let's rip off the graphics card's cooler and see what we can do to help it out.
Oh, look at that lonely little heat pipe. This really is a pretty sad cooler for an RTX 2016. And
if you look around the front of the card you can see that the fan shroud and the backplate
do block off quite a bit of airflow. For that cooler, that's definitely not going to help.
Now, I was kind of thinking that I can just remove the plastic shroud with the fans attached to it
and then strap like a 120 millimeter Noctua fan to the cooler, but as you can see,
airflow wise that's not really going to work very well. So, let's just re-paste the cooler,
see what difference that makes, and then we'll see if we can open up the front of the shroud
and let some more air escape from that cooler. Now, on first impressions, it looks like that
re-paste was a great success, dropping two degrees celsius. But the ambient temperature in the room
was 2 degrees lower, so it didn't really help much. But, we can still try the shroud thing.
And for the final test, I've just removed that stupid plastic backplate from the card
and if you turn the graphics card around you can see that there's so much more room
for hot air to escape that cooler, so yeah I think this should make a decent difference.
Finally, we have some decent temperatures on our graphics card, but the fact that just removing the
backplate drops the graphics card temperature by 4 degrees celsius is pretty rough. That's a terrible
shroud design. In conclusion, I'm actually kind of annoyed at how easy and inexpensive it was to
fix the temperature problems on this system. They could have just shipped it with a better cooler,
but that is one of the advantages of an SI system over an OEM system. They're much easier to upgrade
you can just replace the cooler with something decent and it fixes one of the
fundamental problems of the system. And then finally, in terms of stability, again after
reinstalling Windows on the system, I didn't get a single crash or any form of instability,
so That's pretty much been solved. This brings me to the end of the video! So,
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