Having heat problems but confused

[Guest]

I have a 1.4ghz tbird..had it for about 8 months and got an msi k7t turbo with it. Basically i had heat problems on this cpu which is not overclocked. I was running a volcano 5. The cpu was running about 60-70 (when playing games)and the components around the cpu on the motherboard were split open at the ends and actually dripping yellow liquid from one of them (like the mobo components were about to burst or did!). Coincidently, my hard drive was mounted to a bracket directly in front of the cpu/heatsink/fan and was a bout paper width away from it. My hard drive died before my instabilities. anyhow, replaced the mobo, hard drive, got a volcano 6 and an asus a7v333 and everything is working fine.
BUT.. my cpu is still at 62c and up to 72c when playing games. am i about to fry another mainboard? is this normal, was the way my hard drive was smothering the cpu air flow (creating even more heat and eventually dying) the reason my old msi fried on me?

 

[bw37]

drownword,

Keep reading the other posts here and you will probably find what you need.

I suggest you read the following post to start:

<A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=649811#649811" target="_new">http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=649811#649811</A>

I think the Volcano 6 should be able to handle the 1.4, but 1.4's produce as much heat as anything (w/o overclocking) so you will have to get the rest of your system up to snuff. I suspect you need much better case cooling, maybe even a bigger case to allow airspace between components and airflow through the case. Your case temp shouldn't be too much higher than ambient. 5 - 10C over ambient is a good target.

BW