Need help please

[SmithOCE]

i am just so confused and just dont know what to do anymore. i have a i7-6700k with a rtx 2070 and all that i play is fortnite, my cpu is strange as and it makes my fps goes and dips down to maybe a low of 2 - 30 at random times maybe every 5 - 10 seconds and my cpu has always had an issue where it resets and sits at 100 degrees and it has reset almost every single day since i got it 6 months ago. my friend has a pc with a gtx 770 and an i5 - 2400 and he gets 200 - 400 frames a second whilst my pc can not even keep a constant 120 fps. should i just sell each part in my pc then build a cheap but decent one? issue is i think each part will take a while to get sold and i will have to make the price very low and affordable when every part apart from the cpu is in perfect condition. so to the point, i have a MSI z170a Krait gaming x3 motherboard with my i7 6700k but i want to get a i5 - 9400F. it is cheap and it is 3% better than the i7 6700k and is half the price, but my i7 6700k is literally fried. i have water cooling system but i know nothing about them, i re applied thermal paste about 3 days ago also.

[Akira Shimazu]

well i cant help you with cpu prblem. but if you want new cpu go 3600 with b450

[Brent744]

The i7 6700k is still a great chip and should have no issues running an application like Fortnite. Those temps are quite high and the machine is likely shutting itself down to prevent damage to the hardware. It sounds to me like you have either too much voltage to the cpu with an overclock, or incorrectly applied thermal paste. Too much thermal paste will cause a cpu to overheat.

I recommend you start by powering down the machine. Start it back up and boot into the bios. Find an option called "Load Optimized Defaults" apply and reboot. This will reset all bios settings back to default and remove any overclock settings. Run Fortnite again and screenshot a photo of your system temps. I recommend downloading HWMonitor (hardware monitor) and take a screenshot of that while running the game and upload it here. Then we could see how much voltage is going through the cpu and what clock speeds it's running at.

[SmithOCE]

11 minutes ago, Brent744 said:

The i7 6700k is still a great chip and should have no issues running an application like Fortnite. Those temps are quite high and the machine is likely shutting itself down to prevent damage to the hardware. It sounds to me like you have either too much voltage to the cpu with an overclock, or incorrectly applied thermal paste. Too much thermal paste will cause a cpu to overheat.

I recommend you start by powering down the machine. Start it back up and boot into the bios. Find an option called "Load Optimized Defaults" apply and reboot. This will reset all bios settings back to default and remove any overclock settings. Run Fortnite again and screenshot a photo of your system temps. I recommend downloading HWMonitor (hardware monitor) and take a screenshot of that while running the game and upload it here. Then we could see how much voltage is going through the cpu and what clock speeds it's running at.

i have all my bios on default already. i only overclocked my gpu to test in the userbenchmark test and it performed amazing but i havent touched any other overclocking.

[SmithOCE]

13 minutes ago, Wolfycapt said:

well i cant help you with cpu prblem. but if you want new cpu go 3600 with b450

ok i will check them out thank you

[sergN_]

Maybe you have been infected with a miner

[G00fySmiley]

1st step, reset the cpu cooler, if unsure about the mount maybe have a friend who knows how to set it? make sure you use enough thermal paste and see if the issue persists. since you already did reseat it could (assuming you applied it correctly) be something running in the background

 

run ccleaner, spybot search and destroy, and install HW monitor to check on temps and voltages. 

 

if after both it persists somethign is wrong, motherboard or cpu. I woudl honestly just replace those 2 components and keep the rtx 2070 that is more than efficient for fortnite. I run a 2070 and a i7 8700k and am maxing out my monitor at 1440, 165 fps i might dip into the 140's occasionally but rarely down to doubel digits and never single digits. 

 

heck I just built my son's pc with a R7 2700x and a gtx 1650 and it runs fortnite at 1080p high settings rarely dropping below 60 fps