Computer Overheating Probelm ! Please help

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:01

ok i am just wondering if you know the problem with this,in my computer i just put in the A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, a Nvidea 7950 GX2 1gb graphicscard, then i gave it a new case, and installed xp, i put in some new akasa thermal compound on the CPU, everything was great and running fine, and then i installed the asus pc probe which tells you all Tempretures, the cpu was 32 and the motherboard was 29 i didnt think much of it, then i installed test drive unlimited and played top specs perfect, but then all of a sudden the computer shut down, so i started it up again, then within 4 or 5 mins it shut down again, so i thought this is odd, so i checked inside the computer and everything was fine, so i started it up again and went into bios and looked at cpu temerature and it was at 52! i POOD!!!

myself, so i shut it down asap, then after about a hour i started it up again, worked ok, but then i opened pc probe and it was going up and down from 40-50 degrees the motherboard and cpu temerature, but as soon as i put a game on, the CPU went to 60 and the motherboard was at 50, and after about 5 mins it shuts down (obviously the motherboard or cpu protecting itself from heat) i have 2 case fans the heatsink fan on cpu which is running at full 3169 allso the heat pipe fan and a extra case fan, but nothing changes, theres no jerks no nothing to tell that its gonna shut down but its definatly bcus of the heat, ive been told a couple of things like it could be one of the sticks of ram could be broke so i tried this MEMTEST and about 15% done and the Temp jumped to 66! the highest its ever been and shut down, so its as far as i have read it could be them but also ive heard it could be the cpu fan, but its sitting fine and running full speeed, but a question i would like to ask is if its the RAM broke why does cpu overheat ? (i have 2 ddr400 514mb sticks) so all in all its overheating but the thing is i want to know is whats making it overheat, (i was thinking about watercooling it but since ive been reading i dont know if that will help ?) so question is giving you all the infromation ive gave you what is more than likely the problem ? allso is it true that RAM could be the problem of this ?

would be grateful for all help thanks

my email is [email protected]

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:27

its AMD 4200+ Dual core, and ye i allways forget full stops . . .

hehe

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:28

i thought there wasnt supost to be contact between heatsink and CPU thats what the thermal compounds for isnt it ? to stop the heatsink frying the Processor ?

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:38

hmmm ok,

so in terms should i have put allot on and just spread it around ?

or just enough to evenly do *** base ?

as i was told i was told the more the better, and the thermal compound was there to stop the heatsink frying the processor.. ! :rolleyes:

bit confused
thanks for all replys so far

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 00:47

i havnt swoar once..

every time i wrote T H E it came up i was swearing

but i will do it then, but was just lettnig you know dont want getting a bad name its my first post

thanks

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 01:02

ok so apart form the thermal compound,

what else could be the problem ? i will tell you the specs,

AMD64 4200+ Dual core
Asus A8N32-SLI deluxe Motherboard
7950 GX2 1Gb Graphics
2 X 512MB DDR400 Ram
160Gb samsung HD
550w EZCool Power supply

and its overheating the psu to 58-66 and the MB which im guessing is the motherboard to 50-58,

thanks

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 01:18

ok i just resat the fan and took the lump of thermal compound off

i spread it even ect, but sadly say nothing happend different,

it was idel at 40 then as soon as i put test drive on it gradually got upto 62 and then shut down.

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 01:27

so now apat from the thermal compound what could be the problem ?

the only other thing i have been told is the Ram

thanks

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 01:52

the temp reading are from the asus A booster and allso PC Probe,

and it definatly is overheating because 1stly it shuts down and 2ndly once its about 52 the laging of the game is umbelievable!

can i ask what would happend if i didnt put any paste on ?
what if paste gets on the pins ?

apart from them questions its still strange whats making it to overheat. :rolleyes:

maybe getting a new heatsink ? or watercooling ?

money is obviously a big issue and could only just afford my upgrades

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 02:09

i have the side off all the time to try and help the wires are all in sleeves and i have 2 intakes and 2 outake fans inside

the heatsink is stock AMD surely if the little things like, cleaning THE heatsink out ect, it wudnt make the cpu fly high like that would it ?....

allso on pcprobe it has cpu temperature which is processor i know but it says MB temp, is that motherboard ?

if so is the reason the motherboard is overheating is because of the processor ?

so maybe it would be a big step if i get watercooling, whats THE chance of that making it better ?

many thanks for your replys touch

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 02:16

ah ok

so what would you do in this situation as every information ive given to help you to try and solve it ?

thanks

Anksy · 30 Mar 2007 at 15:13

ill get a one of thoes zalman cpu fans, and see if that works if not ill just take it back

,

the case is apevia gaming case, its full tower but its neally *** same size as my old midi which is strange, i have to admit tehres no space to work inside it whatsoever,

the motherboard is on the limit of fitting and the graphics just makes it worse,

the sides allways off so obviously airflow should be ok, theres 4 case fans 2 in 2 out,

ill allso get some decent thermal compound aswell,

any idea which would be the best cooler and thermal compound for my 939socket amd 4200+ dual core ?????

i bought akasa thermal compound but ive made a rite mess of it its everywhere now, on *** sides of cpu all on *** top and everywhere on the fan :mad:

thanks