I think I have a temp problem

[lone1dog]

I seem to be running HOT , I thought I may have had a temp problem a while back but I have had a game lock up twice lately( Call of duty 2 Demo) and all I'm running is Fad (4 thinks) . So I got to checking the temps with Everst and in the bios. Both the same(daaa its running 70-78 celsius ) I need some thoughts what I can do to cool my cpu down. Heres my specs

Heres my MB http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...s_GA-7NNXP.htm

3200 Barton core Athlon Xp

1 gig of kingston 3200 ddr

80 gig seagate sata 150

Case is a black Knight with two 120mm fans blowing full blast (new case)

Heat sink is a copper volano 7 with a custom 80mm on it

recently used Ceramique paste by made Artic silver on the cpu

[SoloCamo]

have you made sure it's making proper contact?

reseat the whole thing and see if it goes down

[paul9]

Does sound like a badly seated heatsink or bad paste application, but you should also check your heatsink vanes aren't clogged with dust.

[Twinkletoes]

I see you're running FaD. Why don't you put it on snooze and see what happens... It's the first thing I'd do...

[lone1dog]

I just got it back up after re-seating the cpu and heat sink. no luck .
heres my readings

[lone1dog]

Oh man its climbing to 80 c

[lone1dog]

it climbed up to 81c ,how hot can it go without frying my cpu ?

[lone1dog]

I was freaking out a bit, I shut a everything down running fad included and I have it down to 68 c. Wow surely its not 4 thinks doing that or something else?

[syncmaster]

first off at 82 degrees celcious ure computer would hmm how to be nice go kaboom?
how many fans u running, did u update bios, hmm, what else o yea, bad contact i garuntee u on the paste, u need to fix that, because at 82 c and climbing ure computer would fry out

[EXreaction]

Hmm...try having a house fan blow right into the case...though it could be from a bad sensor...

And how come you are running 4 thinks? Wouldn't it be better with just 1?

[lone1dog]

I did some research a while back and found that gigabyte deliberaltly shows higher temps,how much? I don't know. As to 4 think I am pushing,cramming,crunching. Maybe an over kill going on. I am begining to think I need a new heat sink and some new paste the best I can find.

[stroyal]

Make sure your paste is as thin as possible. The past is only to fill in the spots where the heat sink dosen't touch the CPU directly. As far as I know 1 think program runs your CPU at close to max, I don't think 4 can run it at more than that. The hottest temps I see is when I am running Think.

[EXreaction]

Before you look into new thermal paste, read this so you know how to do it right.
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...tions_big2.htm