sudden rise in cpu temps!!

Dreadi · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:36

Recently and repeatedly whilst play CSS my pc has been crashing or just dying. Having looked at ITE smart guardian whilst playing i have notice it hitting 50 degrees, this is with the side of the case open and my 12 inch desktop fan blowing on it on full setting. This is telling me that its shutting down/crashing due to over heating (set to 60 degrees in bios)

Now, when i first got the cpu and clocked it (still the same 2.58ghz) it wasnt hitting more then high 40's and that was in summer, its now stupidly cold and its getting hotter! Could this be due to the heatsink coming unseated or something else?

Any ideas :confused:

Dreadi

w3bbo · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:52

Could be the heatsink has become unseated but its more likely that its clogged up. Remove the fan and dust off the heatsink.

Dreadi · 24 Jan 2007 at 00:33

cheers. ill post up any difference when i get round to it on the weekend

dirtyharry87 · 24 Jan 2007 at 04:04

Same happened to me, was clogged with dust, a few blows and hand picking some dust bunnies and its fine... for now.

Van Diemen · 24 Jan 2007 at 10:24

Most probably dust in the heatsink & Fan.