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Old July 8th, 2003, 04:12 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Are these temps for a XP 2400+ right???

Ok, I've bought a new computer (a new PC actually-finally took the dive away from Mac, but thats another story) and I need serious guidence regaurding temps. Early on, I had a major problem with the PC where it randomly froze in the middle of high load 3D gaming. I tried everything but eventually figured out that it was a heat problem...so right now its sitting in my room with a deskfan sitting on top of an AC vent blowing the AC air into the exposed mobo. This fixes the problem. But I really want to be able to close it someday, so i need guidence regaurding heats. I have a top exhaust fan, a upper rear exhaust fan, one small fan on the mobo (came with it), a fan on my video card, and a HS + fan on my processor...but the whole thing still runs at up to 50 C (mobo) and 45 C (processor)...why!?!?! I hear everyone talking about how XP 2400+s are supposed to run real cool! Is it possible my cpu HS and fan are installed incorrectly/upside down? Please tell me if theres anyway to figure this out...I want to be able to close my case and not worry about random restarts in the middle of action! also I have my auto-heat-shutdown turned off, and yet for some reason it still shuts down whenever it hits 50 C...thus my problem. Please help!

Specs: Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB DDR, geForce 4 Ti 4800 SE 128MB, K7 Triton 400 Motherboard, XP Home

Thanks in advance...

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Old July 8th, 2003, 04:29 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Looks OK to me.

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Old July 8th, 2003, 06:25 AM     #3 (permalink)
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Try a new heatsink/fan and try applying Arctic Silver Ceramique. This will improve yourCPU temps.

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Old July 8th, 2003, 06:37 AM     #4 (permalink)
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r u sure you got your temp sensors right? mobo should not be hotter than CPU
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Old July 8th, 2003, 06:48 AM     #5 (permalink)
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ya shady is right , and if it is true 45c isn't bad on the cpu at full load . is there a fan in the case in the bottom front ? if not one there might help also . you got lots of fans bloing out but nothing blowing in it seems
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Old July 8th, 2003, 12:42 PM     #6 (permalink)
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Ok, I'll try the front bottom fan. On a serpeate note, the reason I'm almost sure its turning off is the board autopoweroff feature. However in the BIOs I raise these temps but it still happens. Keep in mind that SOMETHING is not right with my system...it works perfectly fine with the deskfan setup as i described eariler, but the second I put the case back on it begins to randomly restart again...
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