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Heat worries

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Ashenai

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I'm seriously worried about the heat of my rig. Maybe you guys could
help me out?

It's an Athlon64 3200+ with Antec Sonata case. It's all stock cooling,
no overclocking.

The thing is, I've had it for a year now, and I've had no problems with
heat. (Well actually, I didn't pay any attention to the heat.) But
yesterday, while I was playing a game, the heat warning beeps cut in.
It was the first time that had happened. I checked the BIOS, and heat
warning was set at 75 degrees C! Yikes.

After that, I let the box cool down, then turned it on, and just looked
at the idle temp in BIOS. It crawled up to 60 deg C before I got bored;
I think that's plenty to be worried about.

The CPU fan seems to be fine. I don't understand what could possibly be
making it run so hot. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Laszlo
 
Dust? Check the fans in the case, are they moving? Time for an upgrade in fans then maybe?

Check for dust in the heatsink itself, not just on the fan.
 
I would agree...However this also happened to me a while back, and the fan seemed to be working fine. However I removed it, cleaned it out, and put it back on and it worked fine.
However soon after it happened again, so I thought sod it and went and bought a new cheapo £10 heatsink, and all my worries went away....
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Unfortunately, I don't have a screwdriver here (I'll borrow one tomorrow). But I took off the side of the case, and just kinda blew into the fan as best I could.

The temperature dropped 10 degrees. *boggle*

Wow. I had _no_ idea dust could make such a huge difference. I'm definitely going to pay more attention to it in the future.

Thanks for all your help. :)

Laszlo
 
Get some of that canned air and blow out the fins of the heatsink too.
 
also i am assuming you're using the thermal pad that came with the stock heatsink. I would suggest removing hte heatsink and remouting it with some Artic Silver 5 you'll notice a pretty significant change in temps.
 
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