[Eric Daley]

My system is pretty high end. I’ve got an I7 processor and 16gb of ram and a GTX 760 video card. I’ll do a test render and see what happens.

EDIT: The glitchy look appears in the render. Is there some place I could just convert this to MP4? Maybe that’ll fix it.

[Eric Daley]

Nope. Video has the same glitchy look no matter the preview setting.

[Eric Daley]

It’s too bad I hadn’t measured temps before. I’ve rendered maybe, 10 or so projects on this machine. It just starting giving me trouble in March. I haven’t tampered with it at all. So, I don’t know. Hopefully they can determine what the problem is. I just hope they’re not shady and try to tell me it’s fine. I’m shipping it out Monday, most likely.

[Eric Daley]

Tech Support wanted me to reapply the CPU thermal Paste. I don’t know much about it, but does it sound right I’d need to reapply that after only 5 months? I could probably do it, but I told them I wasn’t really comfortable with that. I’m sending it back to them to troubleshoot.

I’m really nervous because I had heard IBUYPOWER was a hit or miss… But mine has worked great up until now.

As for the liquid cooling, as I remember, that was the only type of “cool down” mechanic offered with the specific case I was getting. (Which I’m probably wrong about…)

I just don’t know if this is a case of a faulty product, it not being powerful enough, or what.

It’s just really frustrating that you pay a lot of money for a dream machine and it breaks.

Now I’m on my 3 year old laptop and can’t so any editing. :/

[Eric Daley]

I’ve gone ahead and emailed IBUYPOWER.

This was what I was worried about… the ONE THING… that the liquid cooling would give me issues. And here we are.

I’ve only had the system for 5 1/2 months. I’m not looking forward to packing this system up and all of that. Ugh.

[Eric Daley]

Aaron,

Thanks for your response. First– my GPU is up to date, as is my audio. Not sure what a SATA Controller is.

So, I spent all day on this. With breaks, I tried to render my project four times, each time it crashed. So, I took off the cover of the tower and cleared out a lot of the dust. I then sucessfully rendered “Part 1” of my project.

But then, I decided to render “part 2” which is also around 16 minutes long. I had Speccy and DPC Latency running.

Speccy showed the CPU getting to 89c and then at about 25 minutes later, when the render was 80% done, it reached 90c and bounced to 91 and 92, back to 89 pretty regularly. DPC was in the green the entire time.

The project got to 95% and CRASH. No BSOD though. The monitor just went black and when it came back, it showed the boot screen then went to Log In.

So, it appears I’ve got an overheating problem. And, I’m worried. I don’t really understand the cooling system I have. But, obviously, it’s not doing it’s job. Here’s a screenshot of Speccy if it’s any use to you. I snapped this maybe two minutes before it crashed.