Pete Buechler 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?
>
> 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.
It's a SocketA/432. The Thermaltake fan includes a heat-sink. Before
the Thermaltake, I had a separate heat-sink + a fan.
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