Predator Orion 5000 P05-650 hard-freezes while gaming

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  • Plutonia
    Plutonia Member Posts: 24 Troubleshooter

    Important update: The cooler hasn't arrived yet. However, I have now confirmed that the hard-freezing was not caused by Windows 10 driver conflicts. I have reproduced the freezing on Windows 11.

  • Plutonia
    Plutonia Member Posts: 24 Troubleshooter

    Cooler change went smoothly. Now I have the stock CPU fan left. I could use that one to add a top exhaust but I'm not sure which motherboard plug would supply power to it. The new fan doesn't look like much because I don't care about the appearance and thus I got the tan colored Noctua.

    I tested Prime95's maximum heat torture test and it didn't go above 91°C which means that at minimum, on more heat generation that I'm ever going to have while gaming, the CPU runs almost 10% cooler.

    Next I'll test Jedi: Survivor, which is the highest heat-generating game I have. That's the one that caused the freezing most often.

  • chugzilla
    chugzilla Member Posts: 726 Seasoned Specialist WiFi Icon

    well, the stock cooler fans that you would mount right above the cooler for exhaust would plug into port 3 right above the memory. there are 2 plugs there for fans and they are tied into the front fans for rpms. then if you want you can get another for the top, they sell them on Ebay. i replaced my Noctua fans with cooler master mobius high velocity argb ones. i don't have that test i use Cine bench r23 for a heat test on the 10-minute run and the highest i have seen mine at was 66C with this Noctua cooler. so, you should see the same numbers or similar.

  • Plutonia
    Plutonia Member Posts: 24 Troubleshooter

    I still need to do some testing with high CPU usage games to find out if the freezing continues. So far the temperatures seem to be good. Automatic fan control seems more reliable too, because I did a CPU burn test with Furmark with automatic fans enabled, it didn't go above 93°C and the fans were spinning up more than the stock fan ever did.

    RAM still gets quite a bit of heat in some games, such as Jedi Survivor. Maybe installing the top exhaust would allow hot air around the RAM to exit more efficiently.

  • chugzilla
    chugzilla Member Posts: 726 Seasoned Specialist WiFi Icon

    well, it all depends the GPU exits hot air out the top right side on our cards and what's right above that? the memory lol. so yeah, that's why i have 2 exhaust fans because some may get sucked into the CPU cooler and what doesn't goes out the top i assume. that's why i have been thinking of a vertical mount but then that hot air still hits the MB no matter what. do you do any of these tests with fans at 100% IMO that's the only true way to test if everything is staying cool.