It was random. The computer could be coming up off a cold boot and it would be 100% idle. Didn't matter if nothing was running.
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Man I'm really wilding out.. I never paid attention to my GPU temps and I had a hunch that something was off. One of the fans on my R9 280X seems to be malfunctioning as it spins slower than the other fan on the card. I noticed my temps was at 89c meanwhile my older card never reached those temps.
Edit:Yup i just google'd around and it seems to be a prevalent issue among the MSI 280X cards.
When i went to check my card the fan on the right side of the card wasn't even spinning.
Looked like this.
Edit:Yup i just google'd around and it seems to be a prevalent issue among the MSI 280X cards.
When i went to check my card the fan on the right side of the card wasn't even spinning.
Looked like this.
Oh, it might be a different issue with me. Mine isn't random, it's only when I actually use the hdd. I'll need to do more tests. Maybe it should be at 100% when downloading steam games. I dunno...
I'm worried this may be a MSI issue because I see a lot of posts online about this issue for this particular card. When I went to the store to buy it, they were all marked as clearance. There's nothing else but these cards in the same price range.
Good thing you're less than 30 days into that card. Should be a hassle free return
I'm reading I need to apply oil on the fan bearing on this card to fix it probably.
@Orbital-Fetus really was on to something...... what's next?? Cover the card with rice and use water cooling?
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I'm worried this may be a MSI issue because I see a lot of posts online about this issue for this particular card. When I went to the store to buy it, they were all marked as clearance. There's nothing else but these cards in the same price range.
my last two Nvidia EVGA cards have been very solid.
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PC gaming 
what a croack of shyt.
People who game on PC's are most likely to be the biggest nerds.
what a croack of shyt.People who game on PC's are most likely to be the biggest nerds.
PC gaming
People who game on PC's are most likely to be the biggest nerds.
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negged.
Great smilie
And a good neg too
i dropped more negs today than i have in the past month...just one of those days.
it seemed to be 'random' sometimes, but it also would happen when I would try to access something on the drive. I also had my page file on that drive, so that could have something to do with it. seeing as my issue turned out to be the SATA cable, I imagine it was trying to communicate with the drive, not getting a response, and then 'hanging' as it waited. this would effect me during normal use, shut down, and boot. the problem also seemed to get worse and more consistent over a few days (at first it only happened a few times, but eventually it became pretty much impossible to use my system)
I don't think it's out of the ordinary for an HDD/SDD to spike to 100% during normal use. mine would be 'stuck' at 100%, often for no particular reason, and the whole computer would usually be somewhat/completely unresponsive
reminds me, I have to log onto newegg and give that cable a bad review
i broke my video card fan trying to fix it by lubing it with oil. hopefully i can switch this bullshyt tomorrow.
Titanfall is having a 'free weekend'
https://www.origin.com/en-us/news/play-titanfall-free-game-time
https://www.origin.com/en-us/news/play-titanfall-free-game-time
Just came back from Microcenter and just did a lite upgrade. I returned my MSI Radeon 3GB R9 280X back and exchanged it for a R9 270X since it was cheaper and anything more powerful than that would be marginal since my CPU was bottlenecking it. The 270X being a rebranded 7870 worked out for me since that card was pretty damn good in the first place.
The card I returned was $230 so I got the 270x for $189 and I threw in a FX 6300 to it with a 2 year warranty. Walked out only paying $60 difference for all of that and my new GPU still has the 2 year warranty from the one I returned on it so I'm good
. I just popped it in, overclocked the CPU to 4.3GHZ on a CM Hyper 212+ and OC'd the GPU a lil. Gonna go test out Watch Dogs now..
