Recent content by EnglFireball

Ok from the top: The Ram is PC3200, cas2 I have 2x512, in dual channel 1 seagate, 1 western digital (hence the s) Onboard audio disabled IDE hard drives. Everything is plugged in - 24pin mobo power, 4pin CPU power and 6pin PCIe I think we've established that heat isn't the issue, since...

Well at the moment nothing's overclocked, I've run memtest, the NF4 chip has the heatpipe cooler thing on it, I'm on SP2, latest drivers for everything, it's a 650W Enermax Noisetaker. The other hardware is a 200Gb seagate, and 80Gb western digital HDs, a samsung DVD/CDRW, and a terratec DMX...

See that's why I'm thinking it should be cooler... Abit's site doesn't mention temperature reading in the BIOS fixes :(

I'll "make up my mind" if you read the posts...? "Every review I've read of coolers etc. has these CPUs running at about 55 under full load" I said the temp in the bios (ie: almost zero load) is at 55. When the game crashed and I rebooted, it was at around 70/75. However since then I've...

It's on the windows desktop right now. It locks up when I play CPU intensive games (ie: Battlefield 2) The bios temp sits at about 55 degrees, windows at about 60. I have no idea what the temp is when it locks. The CPU is running at 2.4GHz (200x12) Cool 'n' Quiet is enabled. Even it is...

Well my motherboard is an abit AN8, so everything's checkable within windows. Maybe they released a batch of 3800+s with dodgy heatspreader to core contact? Apparently I can't RMA mine or anything though, as I've used a different heatsink :(

Ok still not working, after a reapplication... and I have a feeling the heatsink is still getting warm, it's just the construction that meant I couldn't feel it. Could a faulty CPU cause it to put out too much heat? I bought a mobo and CPU as a package 2nd hand - the mobo was faulty, which has...

Nah, no pads. Came with a tube of crappy grease though. I saw something on Arctic silver's website today though. Apparently I'm supposed to put a blob of grease in the centre of the spreader, put the heatsink on and twist it a bit. Maybe I'm getting air bubbles?

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Again, mechBgon's video clip is totally irrelevant, as it's not that kind of heatsink. it's bolted through the motherboard. These are both done up very tightly. Yeh, it has arctic silver 5 on it... but am I maybe supposed to apply this differently on the new style heatspreader? I've just put a...

Oh P.S Fanwise I've got a Zalman 90mm sucking out of the heatsink, and a panaflo 90mm pushing into it, both at 12v. It's kinda ducted from the 2 parellel 5.25" bays which are open and lined with card, and I have a dual fan power supply sucking air off it, as well as 2 80mm fan hole with proper...

Overheating as in... locks up, and I hurriedly press the power button ;-) Right now, just surfing this forum, it's at 64. If I play a game and it doesn't crash, I come out and it's at like 70/75. I'm not using the stock cooler, so the avi thing's kinda irrelevant - thanks for the help...

Now obviously the heat's not getting from the CPU to the heatsink. But I'm not sure why... I have a nice thin uniform layer of arctic silver 5, as normal. However, it's my first time using an AMD 64, with the bigass heatspreader on. It's also a huge heatsink (thermaltake tower 112). So should...

Well I tried someone else's ram today... same errors. Knoppix says something about kernel panic?

anyone else?