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by **ColaBoy** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:15 pm

My option only goes up to x4 Im afraid.

by **ColaBoy** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:48 pm

Well,I just formatted my drive and reinstalled everything. I loaded Sims 2,one of the games that Ive had problems with,and all was well until the screen went blank and my PC reset itself. Is this looking more and more like a overheat problem?

by **liljim** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:33 am

Run it till it reboots, when it does you can go into bios and check the temps. Of course not all bios has the option to but you can look for Hardware Monitoring, Health Status, or something simular if that board has it. If it doesnt, Everest Home Edition (see top left corner) should be able to give you temp readings. My CPU would act up anywhere above 57-58c , anything under that and it was rock solid.

by **ColaBoy** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:24 pm

by **ColaBoy** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:16 pm

by **liljim** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:48 am

78 is too high for that chip. The exaust fan should show another 5 to 10 degree drop, that should show a noticable difference in performance. Do you know what kind of heatsink and fan your using on the cpu?

by **ColaBoy** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:38 pm

The fan is a Cooler Master and I think the heatsink must be as well coz bought it as a fan/heatsink combo.

by **ColaBoy** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:10 pm

Noticed Ive only got one fan power connection on the motherboard so I swithed the fan to an exhaust fan thinking that getting the hot air out is the priority.

by **robbro** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:21 pm

hmm i had overheating problems with my bros comp. Just wondered maybe its the gcard itself ? :S my bros gcard gets really hot, maybe you got same problem :?:

if it hasnt already been said sorry

Hmm also try putting exhaust fan nearer the graphics card if not done so :?:

by **ColaBoy** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:26 pm

Well I just added an exhaust fan and I tried running a known problem game. So far so good its running ok so maybe that IS the problem.

I hope so!

Thanks for the reply.

by **robbro** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:27 pm

cool

maybe you should add a extra cooler on ur graphic card like VGA cooler that might help ya out if its that

. Glad its working alright now

by **ColaBoy** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:29 pm

Can you get a cooler for a video card? Never heard of that before.

by **robbro** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:41 pm

yeps u can

, have a look around on some comp sites like dabs.com or overclockers.co.uk or even ebay.co.uk and search for VGA cooler ull find a lot

. But look properly because they are made for certain cards so just read which are compatible with ur card if any are..

hope that helps

by **liljim** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:00 am

by **ColaBoy** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:08 pm

Oh yes,of course it does. Silly me! :wobble:

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