Is my pc too hot?

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

Speedfan temperatures:
Gpu: 75C
Local: 49C
Remote: 71C
HD0: 35C

Proccessor: Pentium D945 @ 3.4ghz stock clock

Gpu: Nvidia Geforce 6800 (broken cpu fan, im currently looking for a gpu replacement)

HDD: Hitachi 500gb 7200rpm

Is my pc too hot? it doesn't feel like it when i open up the case, i mean i don't feel hot air, but the icons on speed fan next to the temps are: fire next to gpu, red up or green check arrow next to local, fire next to remote, and a blue down arrow on the HDD.Oh and btw the cpu load rarely goes above 20%. Thanks.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

Is the 75c GPU at idle or full load?

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

tiny voices :

Idle, and when I play arma (this is the only game it happens to) The gpu gets to 90C and the game quits and i end up back at windows 7. But that happens when i play for more than an hour.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

Yes it is WAY too hot. 75 is what it should be under load and it should idle between 30-40. It is overheating and kicking you out of the game.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

tiny voices :

Yes, and when i check gpuz the pcb temp is 50C.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

If the fan is broken, it is overheating. You might be damaging the card by running it sop hot.

Spectre694 · Mar 1, 2014

Are those Idle or load? and what is Remote? and Local?

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

The fan is broken (gpuz reads the fan as running @100%), 50C on the pcb is idle and 75C gpu is idle, Remote is 73C and local is around 50C, Correct my of im wrong but is local the heat sink temp and the remote is the actual cpu? And i have heard that the Pentium d series is notorious for running hot.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

Download Coretemp or HWmonitor for the CPU temp to be as accurate and easy to read as possible.

Also, yes, your GPU is overheating.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

So to make this clear it seems to be the gpu that is causing problems right? Because i have replaced the cpu, ram, hdd, on this computer but not the gpu or not yet at least.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

Yes, your GPU is WAY too hot. Games will close when it overheats to prevent any further damage to the GPU.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

tiny voices :

What??? I just downloaded Coretemp and it says my cpu is running at 0C?? it doesn't seem right or is it?

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

No that is wrong. It must not support your CPU. Try HWmonitor.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

Well HWmonitor is not detecting the cpu, only the gpu and hdd.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

I would guess, if the CPU cooler is working properly then the CPU temp is fine.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

Thanks man now i guess we just narrowed this down to a gpu. You wouldn't happen to know a good replacement, do you?

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

For the GPU? What is your budget?

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

tiny voices :

Well i've kinda narrowed it down to around $100 or so, maybe as much as $150, and ive looked at cards between Hd 6670, 7750, 7770, 7790, or for nvidia, 650, 650ti, 750, 750ti.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

Well, all of those are WAY more powerful than your current card. Your CPU will bottleneck alot of them as it is old and low end. What PSU do you have also?

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

400w generic dell, and ive seen people do weird things with dell psus like sli 8800gt on a 375w.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

I would get the 750ti ONLY. It is a powerful card but barely uses any power. It is the best bet FOR SURE. It also does not need a PCI power connector.

And yeah, those 8800gt's are 5+ year old cards.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

Thanks man and i dont know if this means anything but iv'e went to extreme-outervision's psu calculator and all of these cards barely use power and the maximum wattage i got was 300w for the entire pc.

tiny voices · Mar 1, 2014

The PSU is not very good quality and it probably only makes around 350w so you are on the edge as it is. I would get the gtx750ti. It should be fine.

This GPU will be ALOT better than your old one, but in modern games your CPU will now be a bottleneck.

mrubaii123 · Mar 1, 2014

thanks

Spectre694 · Mar 1, 2014

mrubaii123 :

Some of those power supply calculators seem to only factor in the idle draw and way under shoot the power required. I know because I had one suggest 300watt for SLI

This one is the most accurate one I've found so far.
http://support.asus.com/powersupply.aspx

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