problem overheating

[ironzombie99]

For some reason my computer is starting to overheat...Hasnt done this before. I dont know why it would be overheating i am running a good cooling system.


* Stock heatsink w/ artic ceramique (installed right)
* CPU heatsink fan blowing down to the heatsink
* two fans in front bring air in
* one fan in back pulling out air, it is below the line of the heatsink fan
* one fan on side window across from heatsink fan bringing cool air in direct to heatsink fan
* One fan on top of case venting hot air out
* PSU fan
* Heatsink and Videocard cooling system, extra fan bring air to card and pulling it out the back of case
* No wires blocking air movement...routed all wires behind board tray or attached either to top or bottom of case
* Also I cleaned all the dust out after i brought my pc home from the dorm room when i came home for christmas break so dust isnt built up crazily.

Idle I am running about 43-45C, Load (playing 5 min of Rome Total War) hits 65C and had it cut off at prolly 70C before I turned on the system setting to shut it off at 65C. i am using Mothebroard monitor5 to see my temps with an alarm sat at 64C.

I have never had a problem with this...It is in janurary but my room is excessivly hot, im actually sweating a little. But i never had a problem with this in my dorm room during august where i have no air.... I confirm that all fans are working and running at full speed (speed controller mounted in one of my drive bays)

[Cricket]

Have you tried reapply the Arctic Silver? Some mentioned that he's had to replace AS after a short period of time because AS "failed" or something like that. Might try it just to see if it makes a difference.

On my own PIII 1GHz system, it's had the same application of AS2 since I built it almost 4 years ago. But I don't monitor the temps and the computer isn't doing anything unusual...no heat related problems.

Cricket

[ironzombie99]

Well my computer is better now, idle 32-35 and load 42-45. I thought I would let everyone know how I fixed my heat problem.

What I did was I ordered some new thermal paste from newegg, i went with Geil Thermal Paste that is made of copper. Instead of buying a new heatsink I went to walmart and got the good ol sandpaper and I lapped the heatsink. I am terrible at applying thermal compund so it took me about four trys and the lapping process took about 15 minutes or so until the bottom of the stock heatsink was shinny copper color.

I was suprised how good the Geil copper thermal paste worked, I had artic silver ceramique before this but the Geil seemed to work better, maybe it is from the copper substance in the paste allows better transfer of heat i dont know.

So if anyome is experienceing high cpu heat problems take a look at this first before you buy a new heatsinks and fan...