I posted a thread around a month ago about how I thought my CPU was overheating during games. Here's the OP:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1103275-CPU-Overheating[/url]
[QUOTE=janky;30837280]For about the past month now, my PC has been shutting itself down - afaik it's because of my CPU overheating.
Right now, my CPU is idling around the high-30's to the low 40's °C. When I load up a source game the temperature will climb to the 50's. When playing Arma I've seen it at 60 degrees.
I'll be playing a game, CS:S for example, and I'll only be able to play for 20-30 minutes because my computer will randomly shut down. I've read and heard that if your CPU overheats then your computer will shut itself down as a safety precaution which is why I believe that is the problem. There's also the fact that the CPU's heatsink is hot to the touch when the computer shuts down. I've tried cleaning the fan on the heatsink, the heatsink itself, and even buying a new tube of thermal paste. The new thermal paste seemed to work for a few days, but soon the the computer started shutting down again.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Mob6l.png[/img]
The problem started when it started getting warmer outside (for obvious reasons). Then again, last summer this didn't happen so I'm not sure why heating is a problem now. Any ideas FP?[/QUOTE]
My CPU overheating was reasoned out and it was decided that my PSU's shitty brand was the problem. I bought a new power supply ( [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182200[/url] ), only for my computer to keep on shutting down during gameplay. The symptoms are the same - my computer shuts down after 20-30 minutes of play on all games I've tried. Could the problem be heat after all? I can't think of anything else it could be besides my new PSU shitting out already.
so you're sure your cpu and graphics card aren't overheating? use hwmonitor (google it) to see the rest of your temps (speccy doesn't show all of them) and leave it open while playing a game for 5-10 minutes, or however long is safe before your computer shuts down
[editline]8th August 2011[/editline]
then post a screenshot here
Well, looking at your screenshot, your GPU is running at a fiarly high temperature. Is that screen taken at idle?
At idle:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/f4rbw.png[/img]
After 5-6 minutes of CS:S gameplay:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/YcSnV.png[/img]
TMPIN0 is really worrying. What component is that?
It's on your motherboard somewhere. It could be a faulty reading, feel around the motherboard for hotspots.
TMPIN0 is either your CPU or northbridge heatsink. Since for whatever reason hwmonitor say "TRIAL" for your CPU core temps, run coretemp and play cs:s again for 5-10 minutes and post a screenshot of that.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;31613105]TMPIN0 is either your CPU or northbridge heatsink. Since for whatever reason hwmonitor say "TRIAL" for your CPU core temps, run coretemp and play cs:s again for 5-10 minutes and post a screenshot of that.[/QUOTE]
Idle, with full version of HWMonitor:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/G2OE7.png[/img]
After five minutes of CS:S gameplay:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qGVkm.png[/img]
That reading can't be right. My computer would be on fire at this point.
Your other temperatures are still quite high on load.
I would clean out the dust and get more airflow to the case. Then possibly look into better cooling apperatus and reapply thermal paste.
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looking at your Max temps they are way over acceptable ranges for your cpu.
I've already cleaned out dust, reapplied thermal paste, and even have a small fan blowing directly into my case. I don't know what else to do to fix this.
Sorry to bump/doublepost but can anyone help me with this? I've cleaned out the (little) dust I had in my case and have an even bigger fan blowing directly inside yet my CPU still reaches crazy high temperatures. I'm at my wit's end here.
[QUOTE=janky;31788222]Sorry to bump/doublepost but can anyone help me with this? I've cleaned out the (little) dust I had in my case and have an even bigger fan blowing directly inside yet my CPU still reaches crazy high temperatures. I'm at my wit's end here.[/QUOTE]
Remove cpu cooler and apply NEW thermal paste. If you don't have any you can find it in most computer shops.
[QUOTE=FlashStock;31788665]Remove cpu cooler and apply NEW thermal paste. If you don't have any you can find it in most computer shops.[/QUOTE]
Although I applied new thermal paste about a month ago, I just walked down to the local computer store and picked up another tube. I put a bit more on than I did last time and at the moment it seems to be working. Max temperature during gameplay reached 75 degrees compared to the 110 of before. Last time I tried new thermal paste it only worked for a few days before heating became a problem again. I hope it works out better this time.
75 Degrees seems a bit much during gameplay, so remember that you only need a thin layer of Thermal paste between the heatsink, and CPU, too little can cause it to overheat, and too much can cause it to overheat, make sure to completely clean both the heatsink and CPU before applying new paste, I usually use WD-40 and its works nicely, but don't directly apply to the CPU, spray it on paper towels instead.
Also if you have a generic AMD Heatsink that came boxed with your CPU, you can take off the fan and under it, you may find a nice layer of dust, just brush that out and replace fan.
You could always change the entire heatsink, just to be sure.
This one works extremely well, and is very cheap.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134[/url]
It made my i5 750 go from 35 c in idle to 25 c in idle, and from 65 c during load to 45-50 c during load.
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