Strange Problem

[Joffy]

I recently bought a new system thats been running fine in most games I've been playing but in certain high demand games such as Battlefield 2 and Everquest 2 its really seeming to suffer and yet people I know with rigs that aren't as good are obtaining better performance. I heard from a copule that a specific piece of hardware within my comp could be causing the problem. Here's my specs and I was hoping if anybody could help me spot out what the problem may be? I' thinking it's CPU specific myself, and is 73'C too hot for a CPU or is it alright?

Model AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-57 Processor
Speed 2.88GHz

Mainboard
Bus(es) ISA PCI PCIe USB FireWire1394 i2cSMBus
MP Support 1 Processor(s)
MP APIC No
System BIOS Award Software International, Inc. F6
Mainboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. NF-CK804
Total Memory 2GB DDR-SDRAM

Chipset 1
Model Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed 2x 1030MHz (2060MHz data rate)
Total Memory 2GB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed 2x 205MHz (410MHz data rate)

MonitorPanel Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

Hard Disk (C) 559GB (463GB, 83% Free Space) (NTFS)

 

[Rori]

Hmm... are there OEM's that pack an FX-57? Wow.

In any case... 73C is blistering hot. There is a serious problem in your case if your FX-57 is running at 73C. That is a serious issue. Return all of your settings to stock and see what kind of temps you get. If you are getting >50C at idle, then you need to seriously contact the company that you bought that system from.

 

[Joffy]

I got sisoft sandra to do some tests and here's some temperature infor it's given me;

Temperature Sensor(s)
Board Temperature : 25.0°C / 77.0°F
CPU Temperature : 41.0°C / 105.8°F
Power / Aux Temperature : 71.0°C / 159.8°F

I seems to be highlighting the 71'c bit and telling me it's too hot, how will the power temp affect my computer?

 

[RavenD]

Higher temp in PSU results in lower power output and potentially less stable power output.

 

[Rori]

Ok, so that's better. 70+C in a PSU is WAAAAAY different than 70+C on your CPU. Power supplies will always run hot just do to the way they work. I'm not sure that 73C is out of range for a 500 or more watt power supply. You may want to try some benchmark suites and see how your system compares to similar spec systems. I'd suggest 3dmark05 just because of the online database available from Futuremark.