Perfomance problems with decent rig? Check CPU temperature.

[prozop 0]

I used to have performance issues with Dayz SA on my mid-range i5 quad-core machine with a decent graphics card (NVidia GTX 760), even with modest graphics settings. FPS dropped to 18 in big cities and I was not the only one complaining about this. If your machine suffers from this, monitor your CPU temperature. CoreTemp and CPU-Z are good options. Turns out I had a whimpy standard cooler (boxed), probably even incorrectly mounted. Whenever DayZ stressed the CPU (70% load on most cores), temperature went up to 100°C and clock frequency went down automatically to prevent the thing from being burned alive, reducing Dayz performance to no-fun-at-all.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more experts like me out there with crappy CPU cooling, never noticing anything until they play DayZ and their quad-core is really challenged for the first time :O)

[360Nation 60]

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[enforcer1975 1111]

OEM coolers should suffice if you don't plan to overclock. I had a 1337 cooler on my Core 2 Duo and didn't really need it so i didn't get one when i got my i7 2600K. Must be a bad connection between the cpu and cooler body/no cooling paste, not properly mounted.

[Atom Quark 437]

Temperature is very important!  I rebuild my brother-n-laws pc every 3 years because he lets it get full of dust and overheat to destruction.

Edited March 5, 2014 by AtomQuark