On Thursday 15 March 2001 06:19 pm, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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?
Is that a slot A Athlon? It MUST be used with a heat sink which straps onto
the processor module. Twin fans are built in which blow air through the heat
sink continually. Then you should have a case fan to pull the warmed air out
of the case. The armoir is probably a BAD idea. The power supply fan is nice
to keep the power supply from adding to the heat problems. But from your
description of the run-up I suspect that you do not have a heat sink with
fans attached to your processor module.
-Pete-
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