overheating solution?

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Hi, I bought a PC setup from OC around a year ago and i have finally worked out overheating has been whats causing me problems, basically I want to know the easiest and quietest way to cool the thing down.. at the moment I have a huge fan next to it which can hold it going for a bit but it can still get too hot at times. I dont really want to spend TOO much money but I will see what there is to offer.
The case im using right now is the coolermaster wavemaster, I dont know if this could be causing it to overheat because it is pretty tight inside. I have looked at watercooling but im not too confident about setting it up, but it does sound nice the way there is no noise..
anyway any advice would be helpful


Thanks
 
Was it bought as a complete system?
If its under warranty then send it back, either something such as a fan has failed or its been badly designed.

If you can't send it back, they should still be obliged to give you technical support.

You need to be more specific about what is overheating, how hot its getting, how its suppoed to be cooled etc.

The wavemaster is a difficult case to cool but i would say it looks too good to replace. You can't just thow away a case like that...
 
ok thanks for the reply, i bought the system in parts, built it myself.. i am pretty sure its the graphics card overheating, I have read up on the errors I get and most people said it was the gfx card overheating. without the fan there speedfan was showing some of the temps at 60, when i was just browsing the net. Im not bothered about the looks of the case anymore, i just want the damn thing to work properly...

setup i have is:

amd 64 fx55
nvidia 6800 GT
2GB corsair RAM
74gb raptor
250gb something else
 
Make sure that your CPU heatsink is seated properly. Maybe buy and aftermarket cooler (the Freezer 64 Pro is nice and cheap and does a great job) and re-seat with some AS5. What case fans do you have at the moment?

What problems are you having?
 
im too scared to reseat the heatsink hehe but maybe I will have to try that, the fans in there are 2 at the front and 1 at the back, obviously one on the heatsink aswell

ah yeah the problem I have is a BSOD but I have tried every single way of fixing the problem, been on loads of forums trying to fix it and then worked out putting a fan next to the PC fixes it.
 
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I thought it was a pre-built system.
60 is fine for a graphics card.

Check the following temps and see if any are over the limits when running a game or something stressfull.

Cpu <60
Gfx <90
Motherboard/system <50
Harddisk <50

You can use prime95 to load up the cpu.

No point messing around with heatsinks untill you know whats causing the problem.
 
ah problem is prime95 crashes once I see the temps going up, and also I dont know which temp means CPU etc on speedfan, it just says "temp1, temp2 etc"
 
Download Everest Home Edition. This gives you temps and loads of other useful information.

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ah problem is prime95 crashes once I see the temps going up
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That isn't anything to do with graphics. That is probably simply the CPU overheating. What is the idle temp? I would certainly go for a re-seat as a first idea. Are you using the AMD heatsink - if so, get something better. Also, is this overclocked at all, if so drop it back a bit?
 
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its not overclocked, or atleast i dont remember overclocking it. I am using a ThermalRight XP-90, I dont have any of the gel left though. I have tried replacing the RAM and that didnt sort anything out so we can cross that off
 
See which temp goes up most when you run prime95, and thats the cpu temp.

Check that the cpu heatsink isn't jammed up with dust as that often happens and also check that the fan is spinning freely. If that doesn't help, time to reseat the heatsink or buy a new one.

To reseat the heatsink, shut down the pc and then lift the black latch up. Then unclip the metal bracket at both ends of the heatsink. While the heatsink is still warm, gently twist and pull. You then need to clean all the paste off the cpu and heatsink untill both are shiny clean.
Then apply a very small amount of new paste which can be bought from ocuk, spread it evenly over the cpu, seat the heatsink back on and latch the metal latch on at both ends. Then clip the black clip back down and your done.

Edit: Thats for the stock cooler, slightly different for xp 90. What fan are you using?
 
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