re: Chronos by Origin Gaming PC

Sorry, I mounted the cooler/fans from the top of the case and removed the top three panels. Could not mount it in the middle part of of the ceiling of the case. had to use one side. Now Im routing cables.

Post pics of the finished product!

That rig is even slightly better than mine

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I think the most impressive piece of the build is the case and the power supply.

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Fractal Design makes some great cases. Overall, case designs have come a long way in the last 10 years or so.

I'm glad you went with the custom build. It will last him so much longer and is significantly more powerful than any prebuilt machine for that price.

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To save a few dollars, I went with a single graphics card

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No worries. I have two 980s myself, but a lot of the games I'm playing now don't really use the second card. Even when you get a 1440P monitor, your son probably won't feel all that limited by the single 980, but the option will be there whenever.

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I have two 980s

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I need much more detail than that. What games are not sustaining 60FPS? How far below are they dipping, and how often? Also, post a screenshot of his in-game settings, as well as the gaming profile he set up.

Will do. I'm about to get on a plane and will be out of town for the week. When I get back I'll update. I'm not sure which games I just know it's through steam. Thx

I'll text him. I'm not sure what his user name is.

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Zeldafan20

I talked to your son on Steam today. Just wanted to give you the rundown so you know exactly what to do when you get back in town.

After having him download a few monitoring/testing tools and taking some screenshots, the problem was obvious. The second he started running prime95 (A CPU stress testing tool) using the blend test (relatively mild/moderate stress test), his core temps shot up to around 100 degrees Celsius. That's omg-holy-shite-danger-zone-mega-throttling, just shy of complete shutdown. It's the reason he was seeing severe frame drops in games, particularly ones that were so old that they didn't really use much GPU power.

So anyway, turns out the pump probably isn't plugged in (hopefully that's the problem and not that the pump is dead). I showed him the pictures below and he said he doesn't think y'all plugged that in. Assuming you did plug in the 4-pin fan connectors, you only need to connect the 3-pin pump power connector to a 4-pin fan header. I told him to keep the computer off until the pump is operational.

EDIT: removed pics and adjusted text because I got the cables backwards and don't want to confuse anyone else

Once that's sorted out, I'm pretty sure everything will be working fine. However, the problem with the CPU running at high temps is that it can lead to degradation. From what he told me, I seriously doubt he's been running it nearly long enough and hot enough for there to be any damage. Nonetheless, we will want to do a stability check on it once it's confirmed that the cooler is doing what it's supposed to do, just to be sure.

Smart kid you have there, by the way. Followed my instructions perfectly the first time, and we accomplished in an hour what would've normally taken days with a lot of other posters here.

Thank you very much. When I get back, we will test the pump. I believe each fan had its own 4 pin connector and the pump ( I could swear) was a 3 pin. I could be mistaken though. I remember because I made him look up the pin config on the MB so we could determine which pin was obsolete. We left the speed pin bare. I will double check, but I believe I plugged the two fans into the sys1 and 2 fan headers and used the cpu1 fan header for the pump. I never checked to see that it was running though.
Hope the processor is ok. I really do appreciate your help and I will follow up. If there is anything I can do to return the favor, just holla.
He's smart like his momma. lol

Thanks. Im out of town for work, but when I get back I'll test it out.