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pj64er

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i need a little help here. u see, i hav a 1.2Ghz Socket A Athlon. i know its old now but its been reliable. anyway, my problem is that it often reaches 70 degrees Celcius (my ASUS proggie tells me this). And all im doing is a little pj64ing (;)). also, its already got a heatsink, with a fan, and i hav 4 fans on my case.

oh, and its not overclocked.

thx
:pj64: er
 
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pj64er

pj64er

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thx quip, ive already got a bigger fan than what it came with.

slougi, is water-cooling much better(colder)? and suggestions for water-cooling?
 

linker

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Slougi said:
Yes water cools way better than any hsf and is almost noiseless. check out www.overclockers.com for very good articles, they have an excellent forum as well :)

Watercooling is a great way of cooling your processor, but it is not very cheap. You can buy sylver heatsink. It is good, but I don't think it will take down the temp. a lot (5-10C).
 
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pj64er

pj64er

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ok, i just played civilization 2 again (memories...), and it still overheats from that! do you think i might be doing something wrong? I may not have heavy-duty cooling (yet), but my current solution is not that bad. i dont think water-cooling is needed to play civilization 2...do i?
 

Slougi

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No you don't need watercooling usually. Do you have some thermal paste between your cpu and hsf? Do you have some case fans? Please post your setup in more detail.
 
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pj64er

pj64er

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im pretty sure i got thermal paste between my heat sink fan and cpu. i got 4 fans on my case, 2 in the back and 2 in the front. one in the front is sucking in air (with a filter on it to prevent dust) to allow better circulation. and one of the ones on the back is on the transformer, that might not count.
 

Slougi

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Hmm what kinda heatsink do u have? And what kinda fan on it? essentially u have 2 case fans and one psu (power supply) fan, correct?
 

Epic64

Well what can I say?
This may sound silly but what type of psu has you case got? If it's less than 300W it can cause overheating with an Athlon!
 

Slougi

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Erm no. It can cause instabilty due to it not delivering a sufficient flow of electricity, but it should not cause overheating afaik.
 

Epic64

Well what can I say?
Au contraire my little beer friend!

Ask any experienced hardware techy and they'll confirm it. ;)
 
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pj64er

pj64er

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Slougi said:
Hmm what kinda heatsink do u have? And what kinda fan on it? essentially u have 2 case fans and one psu (power supply) fan, correct?

1 cpu fan (i think vantech hsf)
3 case fans
1 psu fan

and ya my psu is 300W, but from time to tilme, my ASUS program detects a sudden drop in voltage.
 
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flow``

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you must have some tiny fans or something.. do what i just did last night

my athlon 1.05 was ~60C/120F

so..

i opened my case, put this 16 inch fan beside my case, and voila! now it about 100F

if nothing else works for you [or your broke like i am], its a good alternative
 
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pj64er

pj64er

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flow`` said:
you must have some tiny fans or something.. do what i just did last night

my athlon 1.05 was ~60C/120F

so..

i opened my case, put this 16 inch fan beside my case, and voila! now it about 100F

if nothing else works for you [or your broke like i am], its a good alternative

lol :D

but flow, i need a long term solution, doing that will get dust all over my comp.
 

Slougi

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Hmm. You might want to check for that thermal paste again, there is supposed to be an extremely thin layer of it on the cpu.some hsf's have a crap kind of thermal stuff on the bottom, it really oesn't conduct heat well. If you have one of those, i would say u need to get some arctic silver (very good thermal paste) and put that there instead. Be careful when removing the hsf, amd cpu's are very fragile!!!
 

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