Wintec Ampo 1 GB DDR2 PC2 5300 (2 sticks of RAM, 2 GB of RAM total)
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 Micro ATX motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane
Arctic Cooling ACF64LP 60mm CPU cooler
I built this machine about 4 months ago.
Everything worked fine.
Now all of a sudden I'm hearing the internal alert going off from the PC stating that my CPU is overheating.
The alert sounded from within the case.
(Case has been left open for 2 months now). PC seems to overheat a bit if I left the case closed before.
idle my CPU temps run about 45c. When playing a game like Company of Heroes the alarm will start sounding after about 15 minutes. Give or take.
This is something new, it never had this problem before. I played games for hours and no problems with temp.
I installed a program that came with my motherboard that keeps watch on the temperatures. Now when the alarm goes off, I hit the Alt-tab button and switch over to that program and it's reading my temps over 90c.
My fans are running fine (two fans on the heatsink). Running around 3200 rpms or something like that. Looking inside the case I can see them running fine.
Touching the heatsink it feels warm.
Two nights ago I took off the fans and heatsink. Cleaned off the thermal paste (that came with the heatsink) and applied Arctic silver compound before mounting the heatsink back on the CPU. Altough I do admit, I believe I may have put too much on. I covered the whole CPU top with the compound and the bottom of the heatsink.
I tested the temps. I booted up a game again to see how the temps were rising. Left my monitoring system up in the back ground. idle temps still stayed around 40c or so. After playing the game for about 5 min, I'd alt-tab and check the temps. Starting to rise in the 50's. swithed back to the game for 5 more minutes of playing, checked, it's up in the 60's. (mind you the temps do a QUICK drop when I alt-tab out of the game to check temps.) After playing for another 6-7 minutes the alarm starts to sound and my temps are above 90c.
Fans are running great at 3000 rpms.
After reading through forums, I did use an air can on the fans and heatsink. Thinking there may have been dust. But to my surprise, there is NO dust what so ever in my case. Not too any noticeable degree anyway.
Sorry for the long and maybe confusing post. Sometimes I tend to ramble when I'm trying to explain something.
I'm providing a link to what cooling heatsink I use.
I'm very confused as to what is causing this. Whether it's a heatsink problem or a CPU problem or maybe something is going on with my PC that I haven't heard of. Motherboard / BIOS problem? Bad CPU?
My BIOS are all set to default. No over-clocking, etc. In fact I have my power settings set to "power save" within Windows XP. Throttles down the CPU when not being used to its full potential.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186019
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 Micro ATX motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane
Arctic Cooling ACF64LP 60mm CPU cooler
I built this machine about 4 months ago.
Everything worked fine.
Now all of a sudden I'm hearing the internal alert going off from the PC stating that my CPU is overheating.
The alert sounded from within the case.
(Case has been left open for 2 months now). PC seems to overheat a bit if I left the case closed before.
idle my CPU temps run about 45c. When playing a game like Company of Heroes the alarm will start sounding after about 15 minutes. Give or take.
This is something new, it never had this problem before. I played games for hours and no problems with temp.
I installed a program that came with my motherboard that keeps watch on the temperatures. Now when the alarm goes off, I hit the Alt-tab button and switch over to that program and it's reading my temps over 90c.
My fans are running fine (two fans on the heatsink). Running around 3200 rpms or something like that. Looking inside the case I can see them running fine.
Touching the heatsink it feels warm.
Two nights ago I took off the fans and heatsink. Cleaned off the thermal paste (that came with the heatsink) and applied Arctic silver compound before mounting the heatsink back on the CPU. Altough I do admit, I believe I may have put too much on. I covered the whole CPU top with the compound and the bottom of the heatsink.
I tested the temps. I booted up a game again to see how the temps were rising. Left my monitoring system up in the back ground. idle temps still stayed around 40c or so. After playing the game for about 5 min, I'd alt-tab and check the temps. Starting to rise in the 50's. swithed back to the game for 5 more minutes of playing, checked, it's up in the 60's. (mind you the temps do a QUICK drop when I alt-tab out of the game to check temps.) After playing for another 6-7 minutes the alarm starts to sound and my temps are above 90c.
Fans are running great at 3000 rpms.
After reading through forums, I did use an air can on the fans and heatsink. Thinking there may have been dust. But to my surprise, there is NO dust what so ever in my case. Not too any noticeable degree anyway.
Sorry for the long and maybe confusing post. Sometimes I tend to ramble when I'm trying to explain something.
I'm providing a link to what cooling heatsink I use.
I'm very confused as to what is causing this. Whether it's a heatsink problem or a CPU problem or maybe something is going on with my PC that I haven't heard of. Motherboard / BIOS problem? Bad CPU?
My BIOS are all set to default. No over-clocking, etc. In fact I have my power settings set to "power save" within Windows XP. Throttles down the CPU when not being used to its full potential.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186019