AMD 64 3500+ Wincester

[stingerama]

Hello to all again.

The weather around here for the first time warmed up to around 90 degrees F. According to my temp monitoring program my CPU is idling around 42-45 degrees C and when I try to play games it goes as high as 51 C which I think is quite bad. Every other game is fine but when I play CS:S or HL2 the thing wigs out for a bit then locks up. Then I have to do a hard reboot. My guess this must be the CPU overheating. This is an AMD 64 3500+ Winchester by the way.

My HSF is working fine, has gone up to 4000RPM and is all copper. Never had a problem before and my guess is the weather has brought my comp's CPU to the edge. So I've already ordered some Arctic Silver 5 compound and I'm going to remount the HSF and redo the compound because it originally came with a pad. I guess the HSF and CPU are not getting a good connection and heat is building up. I've already cleaned out the dust from my computer.

So now I wait for the compound to arrive. Until then, this sucks! :|

Any other ideas/comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks all.

Sys specs (this is over a year old btw!)

AMD Athlon 64 "Wincester" 3500+, 2.2GHZ, 512KB L2 Cache, S939 @ .90nm
Asus A8V Deluxe, K8T800 Pro Chipset
1 GB (512x2), OCZ Premier Series PC3200, DDR 400
Western Digital 80 GB, EIDE Ultra ATA-100, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache
eVGA Nvidia 6600GT AGP, 128MB
Windows XP Pro (SP 2)
Lian Li PC-61 Case w/ Antec SP 2.0 500 watt PS

 

[Amaroque]

51c is warm for a 2.2 GHz Winchester, but shouldn't cause lockups. Last summer I had the same chip OCed, and running Prime95 at 60c flawlessly.

Perhaps your video card is overheating.

Try maxing the CPU temps with Prime95. If there is no problem with Prime95 for 24 hours, it's likely a video card overheating problem.

 

[stingerama]

Much appreciated.

Ambient temp in the room has dropped and the CPU is now hovering around 39-40 C... 46C under load. Seems to be running okay now; strange. Perhaps some Arctic Silver on the gfx might help as well.

 

[bennny]

try removing the side of your case, to see if that helps. If it does, you probably have a pocket of warm air going on. What kind of power supply are you running? Does sound like your video card might be over heating, you should pull up your video temp and see what it is at after 1 hour of css.

 

[stingerama]

Hello.

Power supply is Antec Smartpower 2.0 500 watt ATX.

I put two 88mm exhaust fans right over the card and the video still crapped out, polygonal tears, errors... and froze up only a few minutes in. I already RMA'ed the card back to newegg (<3). This is the second 6600GT I have sent back. If they still have some laying around I'm just gonna sell it... already purchasing a different card. Hopefully I'll have more luck with a 6800XT... old AGP formats are getting hard to find these days. My comp's getting old, I know! UT2007 is the key for new hardware.

The AS-5 is arriving tomorrow... can't wait.