Overheating?

paddya · 18 Jan 2007 at 21:50

Just had a couple of issues tonight with my PC. I recently fitted the Zalman fanless northbridge cooler as my original one was failing.

While playing FS9 tonight, it has rebooted on me twice, admittedly while ALT-TABing out. First time it came back I noticed that the system temp was at 38degrees and the second at 40.

It's settling back down now at 35 now and CPU at 41 but just wandering whether this 38 and 40 could cause a problem, and if so, be a result of me changing this fan?

My pc is on almost 24/7 while I remote into it from work and downloading and never had the problem before.

Thanks

sablabra · 18 Jan 2007 at 22:28

If you don't have any airflow over the chipset cooler, it is going to be boiling. Touch it with your finger, you will get burnt

paddya · 19 Jan 2007 at 08:46

sablabra said:
If you don't have any airflow over the chipset cooler, it is going to be boiling. Touch it with your finger, you will get burnt

hmmm, must try that later lol

Well left it on over night and it's settled down to 37 CPU and 33 system. Therefore I only had about 6 degrees difference, not sure if that would be enough to start crashing.

Did realise that the front door on my case was closed so I'm assuming that was stopping my front 120mm fan from pulling anything in.

I think maybe before the summer I should look at improving cooling. Not sure the best way to go about it though. Looking at my fans I have the 'power' fan running at 1962rpm, 'System' fan at 1205rpm and 'CPU' fan at 2311rpm.

I have two 80mm fans at the back but only one is connected as I don't have anymore connections. Assume I need some form of splitter.

sablabra · 19 Jan 2007 at 11:00

System temp is useless. Some mobos have a separate probe for chipset temp. If your has one, that's the one you should look at.