Hello everyone,
I am having some major problems as indicated with this thread's title in that my CPU is getting WAY too hot. After putting my computer up to 30 minutes to an hour of doom 3 and then immediately rebooting, the BIOS says that my CPU temperature is in excess of 70 degrees C! This really has me worried as I read on the AMD website that the maximum temperature that my processor can handle without frying is 85 C. I haven't experienced any problems with my computer just yet, and I'd like to keep it that way. As such, I decided to replace my stock heatsink/fan with a different one as well as adding some thermal grease. I would appreciate any suggestions you have as to what heatsinks/fans will get my CPU temp down to around 50C while under heavy load. Suggestions on what kind of thermal compound to get would also be appreciated. Since this is the first time I will be using a fan other than stock, i'd also appreciate any advice as far as administering thermal compound and installing the new fan. For reference, my computer is composed as such:
Asus a7n8x deluxe motherboard
AMD athlon xp 2600+ @ 2.083Ghz (Socket A i believe)
512MB ram
etc, etc
I apreciate any advice that you could give me, since I'd like to be able to keep this computer up and running for another two years or so.
-zwqg1985
I am having some major problems as indicated with this thread's title in that my CPU is getting WAY too hot. After putting my computer up to 30 minutes to an hour of doom 3 and then immediately rebooting, the BIOS says that my CPU temperature is in excess of 70 degrees C! This really has me worried as I read on the AMD website that the maximum temperature that my processor can handle without frying is 85 C. I haven't experienced any problems with my computer just yet, and I'd like to keep it that way. As such, I decided to replace my stock heatsink/fan with a different one as well as adding some thermal grease. I would appreciate any suggestions you have as to what heatsinks/fans will get my CPU temp down to around 50C while under heavy load. Suggestions on what kind of thermal compound to get would also be appreciated. Since this is the first time I will be using a fan other than stock, i'd also appreciate any advice as far as administering thermal compound and installing the new fan. For reference, my computer is composed as such:
Asus a7n8x deluxe motherboard
AMD athlon xp 2600+ @ 2.083Ghz (Socket A i believe)
512MB ram
etc, etc
I apreciate any advice that you could give me, since I'd like to be able to keep this computer up and running for another two years or so.
-zwqg1985
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