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I tried cleaning out dust on most components, and am currently trying to lower the ambient temperature. What else should I do? Do I need another cooling unit, or is it something faulty, or what??
MOTHER OF GOD.[/SIZE]
I tried cleaning out dust on most components, and am currently trying to lower the ambient temperature. What else should I do? Do I need another cooling unit, or is it something faulty, or what??
Is the 98 degrees a real value, or is it a missing sensor? If it always stays at the same value, it can just be ignored.
Fuck the dust, what you need is an extinguisher.
Check the temps after you’ve cleaned it out and try running with the case open, see if that helps.
Looks like the motherboard is overheating big time, caused partially by a hot GPU/CPU.
Are you using stock cooling for the CPU? If so, I highly recommend getting a custom one, even cheaper models will give much better results than 66 C.
As for the GPU, download RivaTuner and change the fan speed to 100% to maximize airflow (might be noisy).
Removing the side of the case will help too, though you will have to clean the computer more frequently as dust will get in more easily.
The ‘Temp 2’ might be the motherboard southbridge, this is probably overheating because of the graphics card (they are usually positioned on top of the southbridge depending on the size of your graphics card).
Hardware won’t last long when running at ~100 C - many hardware components are usually made to handle 80-90 C (might be higher like 125 C max) maximum but not for prolonged exposure. Graphics cards tend to die when the core reaches ridiculous temperatures (100 C+) which kills the surrounding capacitors.
I got RivaTuner and set low-level fan speeds to 100% fixed. GPU temps have lowered below 64C B)
I have a thing inside the computer called a “Coolmaster 6000” or whatever. It doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job… >
I will try my best to lower Ambient temperature, as it is currently…uh…flips square clock on desk to the left 84F in my room. Flips it back
I have an awesome clock.
64 C is still a bit high, mine idles around 55 C @ 70% fan speed (do note that mine has a single GPU core).
Did you install the CPU cooler yourself? Maybe you applied too much or too little thermal compound. My CPU (i7 930 @ 3.4 GHz) idles at 38-40 C.
I bought my computer as is from E-bay. …Well, my mom got it for me for my birthday, because my other one broke from viruses, but you know what i mean…
Does this…“Thermal compound” wear off eventually? That might be the case… (No pun intended)
Depending on the quality of the compound it might lose some of its effectiveness over a period of several years. People who build their own systems tend to re-apply thermal compound whenever idle/load temperatures rise to undesirable levels that were previously known to be lower (at the same room temperature).
Stock CPU cooling/heat sinks usually don’t come with high quality thermal compound.
Ill see if they have any on E-bay, and then I will look for tutorials online on how to apply it.
Thx.
Don’t run the card fan at 100 all the time
Also you need more casefans.
Also you must suck at computer maintenance
Can we get pictures of the case interior and setup?
you perv
Sure. Ill take a pic and edit this post.
EDIT:
I hope that fan all the way in the back is blowing cold air into the case…
It is, don’t worry. :3
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