Upgrade suggestions?

[nekooo]

Hey everyone!

 

So for a while now my 3-4 year old PC has been acting up every now and then, the occasional freezes, occasional blue screens of death and crashes during gaming etc.

It also gets really loud and hot whenever I play basically any game, so I thought i might have to upgrade at least the cooler,

and I thought I'd ask in here for some help.

 

Specs:

 

AMD FX-8350 CPU (~30-35°C idle, ~70°C load) with stock cooler (as far as I know)

 

AMD Radeon Sapphire R9 380 Nitro GPU (~49°C idle, ~76°C load)

 

MSI 970A-G46 Motherboard (~47°C idle, ~75°C load)

 

16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28) RAM

 

236GB Intenso SSD Sata III ATA Device (SSD)

931GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1NS162 ATA Device (SATA)

 

MS-Tech CA-0300 NG Case

 

Games and such mostly run smoothly on pretty high / highest settings, but the occasional freezes, blue screens and the noise and heat when gaming are what made me write this.

Also while I liked the case when I bought the PC, a new case would be pretty welcome, but my focus is on getting the thing quieter and cooler in general.

 

Any Advice is welcome ^^

 

Edit: It isn't really the heat bothering me, but the noise is just too much and I was going to buy open-back headphones, so it's just really distracting and annoying all the time.

[Jurrunio]

I guess the thermal paste between the CPU cooler and CPU just dried up.

[LePips]

Does not look extensively warm to me.

[Princess Luna]

If you're satisfied with its performance you can just clean every thing good, reapply thermal paste on the CPU cooler, reinstall windows fresh new, maybe a new better SSD for boot drive and that's it.

 

Overclock every thing once done too... there is no easy upgrade path in here because to make anything meaningful you'd kinda have to start over with current day components.

[nekooo]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

If you're satisfied with its performance you can just clean every thing good, reapply thermal paste on the CPU cooler, reinstall windows fresh new, maybe a new better SSD for boot drive and that's it.

 

Overclock every thing once done too... there is no easy upgrade path in here because to make anything meaningful you'd kinda have to start over with current day components.

Thanks for the suggestion! How exactly does reapplying thermal paste and reinstalling windows help btw? (not doubting you, just want to understand it properly)

 

And yeah i understand the thing about the upgrade path, the Motherboard doesn't have great compatibility for a lot of current-day CPU's etc

[LePips]

Just now, nekooo said:

Thanks for the suggestion! How exactly does reapplying thermal paste and reinstalling windows help btw? (not doubting you, just want to understand it properly)

Thermal paste dries out and thus loses thermal conductivity. Reinstalling windows can help because then parts of code slowing your computer down are deleted.

[nekooo]

1 minute ago, LePips said:

Thermal paste dries out and thus loses thermal conductivity. Reinstalling windows can help because then parts of code slowing your computer down are deleted.

Thanks! What would you suggest to do about the noise though?

[LePips]

Was it always this loud or has it become louder over time?

 

[nekooo]

1 minute ago, LePips said:

Was it always this loud or has it become louder over time?

 

It's become louder & hotter over time, It's been like this for not so long, not even a year I believe.

Also the freezes/crashes started at a similar time as far as I can remember.

[LePips]

Start off with new thermal paste, you could also try clean your fans and look if they are still running smoothly.

[cobaine]

 

I have a PC a CPU not too powerful and I want to improve it