TehGuy
Active Member
I'm trying to fix an older computer (not even mine, it's my mom's) that was recently slightly upgraded (only went from 512mb ram to 1gb and something like an athlon 2400 to 3200). The computer itself is probably 3 or 4 years old. It has an Athlon 3200+ XP, NVidia 6600GT (128MB), and the motherboard is this K7N2 Delta2-LSR thing. Basically, she was complaining of World of Warcraft crashing or the computer restarting, or the graphics going crazy. So I updated the drivers to everything (sound, video, mobo, bios), and checked the computer temperatures, which were really high.
So I reapplied some thermal paste to the CPU and GPU heatsinks (I put on the normal amount of paste, Arctic Silver 5, and the temperatures went up slightly, put on even more and it went down), added another fan to the case, and moved around the fans to improve the airflow in the case. The air coming out of the PC is cool enough. This reduced the temperature some, but it still seems really high.
On the bios itself, it says the CPU is sitting at about 70c. Using SpeedFan, it says GPU is at 55-60c idling, while the CPU is at 50-55c idling. When I open World of Warcraft up in windowed mode, the CPU jumps up to 80-85c, and the graphics card
goes up to about 70c, maybe 75c. It says the same for the MSI mobo utility program thing (Core Center). They also say the system temperature is 30c. Here's a screencap of both while idling and while under stress:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/p4x-650/idle.png - Idle
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/p4x-650/stressed.png - Stressed
The CPU and GPU are not overclocked.
I can't figure out why this stuff is overheating, any help or ideas would be appreciated.
So I reapplied some thermal paste to the CPU and GPU heatsinks (I put on the normal amount of paste, Arctic Silver 5, and the temperatures went up slightly, put on even more and it went down), added another fan to the case, and moved around the fans to improve the airflow in the case. The air coming out of the PC is cool enough. This reduced the temperature some, but it still seems really high.
On the bios itself, it says the CPU is sitting at about 70c. Using SpeedFan, it says GPU is at 55-60c idling, while the CPU is at 50-55c idling. When I open World of Warcraft up in windowed mode, the CPU jumps up to 80-85c, and the graphics card
goes up to about 70c, maybe 75c. It says the same for the MSI mobo utility program thing (Core Center). They also say the system temperature is 30c. Here's a screencap of both while idling and while under stress:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/p4x-650/idle.png - Idle
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/p4x-650/stressed.png - Stressed
The CPU and GPU are not overclocked.
I can't figure out why this stuff is overheating, any help or ideas would be appreciated.