Hello!
1. Try using canned air to blow out the heat sink and fan(s). You'd be surprised how dirty they can get.
2. Memory issues can also cause freezes. Try popping out the RAM stick(s) and GENTLY cleaning the contacts on both sides of it/them with a pencil eraser, rub off any residue with an alcohol-wetted cloth or cotton swab, and reinserting them. Gold DOES tarnish, and sometimes, that tarnish is invisible on the contacts.
3. Lastly, I'd try repasting the CPU heat sink. CPUs usually plug into zero-insertion-force (ZIF) sockets. GPUs are most likely fastened to the mobo using little solder balls (ball grid array, or BGA), and usually don't cause issues that aren't caught on the assembly line first. Your GPU might even have a heat sink that can be repasted.
None of these suggestion can hurt at this point...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
1. Try using canned air to blow out the heat sink and fan(s). You'd be surprised how dirty they can get.
2. Memory issues can also cause freezes. Try popping out the RAM stick(s) and GENTLY cleaning the contacts on both sides of it/them with a pencil eraser, rub off any residue with an alcohol-wetted cloth or cotton swab, and reinserting them. Gold DOES tarnish, and sometimes, that tarnish is invisible on the contacts.
3. Lastly, I'd try repasting the CPU heat sink. CPUs usually plug into zero-insertion-force (ZIF) sockets. GPUs are most likely fastened to the mobo using little solder balls (ball grid array, or BGA), and usually don't cause issues that aren't caught on the assembly line first. Your GPU might even have a heat sink that can be repasted.
None of these suggestion can hurt at this point...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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