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Hi I am new to the forum, but I am having a major issue with overheating in my pretty new, custom built PC. I’ve only had the PC for 2 months and it has worked perfectly until the other day when it was alarming me and then shutting down protecting it from overheating. It is an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ processor with 4 fans, the maximum amount of fans it can have. Every part in it is brand new. I have air dusted the whole inside of it with canned air and it appears to have been free of dust. I checked and all of the fans seem to work flawlessly and they spin the maximum RPM that they can go, I even benchmarked it to see how fast they were going just so I made sure. The problem I face is, if they seem to be working fine…. then why is my CPU temperature getting so hot? (around 70 degrees Celcius) The norm for that chip is between 51 and 52 degrees celcius. Another weird thing that I cant seem to understand is that if I tilt the computer and lay it dow n on it’s side rather than stand it up on it’s base, the CPU will stay at around 49 to 51 degrees celcius, which is normal. But when I turn it up on it’s base, it starts to get close to overheating and alarms me and shuts off eventually. I dont really want to take it to the computer shop to get diagnosed, because that’s kind of expensive… So I thought i’d ask a forum for help. If anyone has any idea what to do, I am pretty sure it has something to do with bad airflow…. Please respond to me ASAP! I’m a college student and I am desperate to have my desktop back to normal :crying: Thanks so much!!
Could you maybe tell us what case you have? And is it getting proper airflow, even if there are 4 fans, but no air circulation then the fans aren’t going to do much.
ShadowdogMU wrote:Could you maybe tell us what case you have? And is it getting proper airflow, even if there are 4 fans, but no air circulation then the fans aren’t going to do much.I could probably show you what case I have…. we bought it online. But what do you mean by what kind of case?? That’s my question…. does it have proper airflow? And all the sudden just start acting up after 2 months of working fine? or could it be something else?? Sorry im just overall confused. Thank you for your reply…. and let me know what you need to know to come up with a conclusion.
EDIT: My friend who built the computer for me told me that I need to get a better heatsink and fan to fix this problem…. is that true?
“GoldenKnight8987 wrote:My friend who built the computer for me told me that I need to get a better heatsink and fan to fix this problem…. is that true?Yes
I got the idea to try and reseat my heatsink……… and get rid of the old thermal grease and put new thermal grease on there.
what do you think? do you think this would work?
Last week I faced the same problem, I changed my processer fan, put on new heat jelly on heat sink and reset it it’s ok. and working now.
Are you using a heatsink with heatpipes? Heatpipes are very attractive because they do their job well, the problem that no manufacturers tell you–and most people don’t know–is that the pipes are meant to be vertical, not horizontal, to work properly. There’s some kind of liquid in there that expands and does something (forms into a gaseous state, I think?), and it works just how any heat does on this Earth…it’s supposed to rise. If the pipes are horizontal, it can’t rise and cool off, then repeat the cycle, so it just sits there getting hot, doing nothing.
Thanks for mentioning rotating your case by 90 degrees, that made me think of this. SO…are you using a HSF with heatpipes? The answer here is not “yes you need a new HSF”…not necessarily. Because of what you said, it makes me assume you have heatpipes and that they’re functioning normally, but only when used in the environment they were designed for.
If you are, and this problem doesn’t seem to be going away, and you want your case vertical, I suggest grabbing a non-heatpipe HSF. I’ll never buy Thermaltake fans because their track record with the GF4 “highest performance copper cooler” had a fan that died consistently in EVERY HSF they sold. Anyways, I’m a big “fan” 😉 of Zalman coolers. I’d love to grab an all-copper cooler for my SETI machine when I get some spare cash. The 7000 is what I’m currently interested in, but all of their all-copper HSFs are very appealing.
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