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Hello people,
I've been having problems with cooling. Although i'm not an overclocker i would be interested in learning how to do it properly. I know there are risks involved and i wouldn't be comfortable trying it unless i was 100% confident.
Anyhow, my problem is with a system that isn't even overclocked!
idle temp= 62c, load temp= 70c+,
i don't use the system for gaming. Mainly for browsing and burning movies.
its when im burning movies i get temps of 70c+. Blue screened a couple of times and rebooted on its own while encoding movies. That is what got me worried. I know now that 70c+ is not a safe temp.
I have taken one of the panels off in an attempt to help cool. Also bought compressed air in a can and cleaned out all the fans but still only a slight change. I know that if i go into the bios and drop the FSB to the lowest it will help, but then im sacraficing performance.
What i need is a simple and inexpensive way to cool the CPU.
(Take into consideration that im a virtual beginner and can just about fit a grapghics/pci card on my own.)
Some info on my (humble)sytem below -
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1733 MHz (13 x 133)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7N400-L
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (128 MB)
Disk Drive ST3120022A (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive JLMS XJ-HD166S (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
benchmarks:
CPU Clock Motherboard Memory
1733 MHz Gigabyte GA-7N400-L PC3200 DDR SDRAM
Read Speed
1832 MB/s
write speed
733 MB/s
latency
158.6 ns
I've been having problems with cooling. Although i'm not an overclocker i would be interested in learning how to do it properly. I know there are risks involved and i wouldn't be comfortable trying it unless i was 100% confident.
Anyhow, my problem is with a system that isn't even overclocked!
idle temp= 62c, load temp= 70c+,
i don't use the system for gaming. Mainly for browsing and burning movies.
its when im burning movies i get temps of 70c+. Blue screened a couple of times and rebooted on its own while encoding movies. That is what got me worried. I know now that 70c+ is not a safe temp.
I have taken one of the panels off in an attempt to help cool. Also bought compressed air in a can and cleaned out all the fans but still only a slight change. I know that if i go into the bios and drop the FSB to the lowest it will help, but then im sacraficing performance.
What i need is a simple and inexpensive way to cool the CPU.
(Take into consideration that im a virtual beginner and can just about fit a grapghics/pci card on my own.)
Some info on my (humble)sytem below -
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1733 MHz (13 x 133)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7N400-L
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (128 MB)
Disk Drive ST3120022A (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive JLMS XJ-HD166S (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
benchmarks:
CPU Clock Motherboard Memory
1733 MHz Gigabyte GA-7N400-L PC3200 DDR SDRAM
Read Speed
1832 MB/s
write speed
733 MB/s
latency
158.6 ns