Hey, first off, I've been having problems with the temperatures of my processor on/off for the past few months. At first I fixed it (or so I thought!) by applying fresh thermal paste, the old stuff was pretty messed up so I put on some IC Diamond.
This went well, everything seemed okay and I've not had any problems since, until yesterday.
Whilst playing games, my computer seemed to have a little blip and completely reset itself, black screen, reboot. First thing I done was load up Speccy and give the temperatures a look and my processor was sitting at 80 degrees, not a fun temperature.
Anyway, I went back into a game and monitored it and the temperatures managed to hit (and exceed) 90, so I've been putting off running anything since.
What I'm wondering is, would my money be better spent purchasing a new case (I currently have an antec 902) or a new cooler for my processor (It's 2 years-ish old... stock fan).
As a bit of background to the computer, I've been running it with the side off (but clean dust regularly) and have the following;
AMD Phenom II X4 955
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
It should probably be noted too that I have four hard-drives running alongside all of this, so there's a lot of stuff crammed into my case (but I have cleaned up the wiring).
Also, my graphics card has been running in excess of 60 degrees ever since I got it, do these run hot? (Had no problems with crashes relating to it however.)
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to be as thorough as possible. (and I hope this is in the right section!)
P.S. Willing to spend up to £80 on new parts if necessary.
This went well, everything seemed okay and I've not had any problems since, until yesterday.
Whilst playing games, my computer seemed to have a little blip and completely reset itself, black screen, reboot. First thing I done was load up Speccy and give the temperatures a look and my processor was sitting at 80 degrees, not a fun temperature.
Anyway, I went back into a game and monitored it and the temperatures managed to hit (and exceed) 90, so I've been putting off running anything since.
What I'm wondering is, would my money be better spent purchasing a new case (I currently have an antec 902) or a new cooler for my processor (It's 2 years-ish old... stock fan).
As a bit of background to the computer, I've been running it with the side off (but clean dust regularly) and have the following;
AMD Phenom II X4 955
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
It should probably be noted too that I have four hard-drives running alongside all of this, so there's a lot of stuff crammed into my case (but I have cleaned up the wiring).
Also, my graphics card has been running in excess of 60 degrees ever since I got it, do these run hot? (Had no problems with crashes relating to it however.)
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to be as thorough as possible. (and I hope this is in the right section!)
P.S. Willing to spend up to £80 on new parts if necessary.
