I would reccomend that you also take the CPU off and clean the die of the CPU and the surface of the Heatsink, and then reapply a _thin_ layer of heatsink compound, and put it back on. My system, and Athlon 800 @ 1000 MHz, with a GeForce2 GTS, also overclocked, runs quite hot also. So, I put in a "blowhole". I took a hole saw and cut a hole in the top and left side of the case and put an 80mm fan in each. The side blowing air in over the GeForce and CPU area, and the top pulling air out. Now, my case runs a lot cooler. Currently, ambient air is 74 degrees, and the inside of the case is at 79 degrees. My CPU is running around 90 degrees, depending on what I'm doing. When I'm running CPU intensive programs (PS, games, etc), the CPU temp peaks around 101 degrees. I know this is a drastic mod to do, but if you're running so hot that your system is unstable, maybe give this a try... -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kurt Granroth Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:20 PM To: PLUG Discuss Subject: Overheating system Does anybody here have any experience with overheated systems? I am at a loss what might be wrong with mine :-( Now I know what is generating the heat in the first place. I have a 900 Mhz Athlon (SocketA), two 7200 RPM ATA100 hard drives, a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive, two ethernet cards, my video card (cheap $20 one, though), a TV card, and a sound card. I also keep it in an armoir to keep it out of sight. Alas, that probably cuts down the airflow a bit. The problem I have is that my system locks up on a fairly regular basis whenever I do compiles or anything else CPU intensive. I have narrowed the problem down to the heat. Now it *is* hard getting an accurate temperature reading of the CPU since my chipset (as99127f) isn't very well supported by lm_sensors. But with various reboots checking the BIOS readings, I think I have a good idea of the temperatures ranges. Basically, my motherboard hovers between 35C and 42C. My CPU goes from 51C to 65C! Since everything I've read says that anything over 45C is a bad thing, I'm quite worried. So I bought an Enermax 300W power supply since they are so well rated on overclocker sites. It has an extra fan on it which supposedly cools down a case quite a bit. I just got a Thermaltake Aircooler (Socket 462). I also have a standard (no-name) intake case fan on the bottom front of the case. I used to have a fan that attached to the case and blew directly on the CPU... but I couldn't tell any difference in temperature and it was loud. I'm going to buy one of those "Twin Turbo" case fans that supposedly push 80cfm and see what happens. But I'm still a bit worried. Why does the CPU heat up so much and so fast? With only the BIOS setup screen running, it will go from about 40C to 55C in less than a minute. This seems very odd to me. Could it be that the CPU is "broken" and pushes out a lot more heat than it should? How could I tell? Anybody have an experience here? -- Kurt Granroth | http://www.granroth.org KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer granroth@kde.org | granroth@suse.com KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss