Edit: Something is broken, and I think its heat related!

[CrispyFried]

Im not sure, thats why the "?"

It may be on the cpu itself. Mine (P4) is in the socket though.

I edited my earlier post with some other thoughts I had (its morning coffee time here, brain is still sluggish)..

 

[InternetDuder]

case is a
http://www.xclio.com/product_01.htm

it used to be on newegg... but not anymore i guess. Replaced by a mid-tower version of it
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811201004

Even if the card is blowing hot air at the chipset, I find it hard to believe that would cause a problem at stock speed+voltages. Something seems to be definetly wrong.

So if prime95 errored, and then I run memtest86, it seems that will give me an almost certain finger pointing at the ram or the CPU. I'll also run rthdribl, that should be nice.

 

[CrispyFried]

I wouldnt think that the northbridge is an assue either, it still should draw enough cool air to do its job. But ya never know

The 80 is in the side window and blows on the vid card I assume.

But you said the 120 is also blowing toward the vid card. Is on the rear panel blowing into the case? Or in the front? If its on the rear have you tried setting it to exaust? Or setting the side fan to exaust? My case (antec 1080 amg, similar fan setup as yours but with dual 80s front and back instead of single 120s) has the side fan blowing in and it cools better that way but I would try the 120 on the front as intake and the side 80 exausting (with the back 120 tried both ways as well) and see what happens.

If you have only one 120, grab another. The link says you can put 120s in the front and rear plus the 80 in the side.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: InternetDuder
Everythign is already running stock voltage and clock speed. I can't test other systems, nobody else in town has a AMD 64, or a 939 motherboard. After work I'm going to recontact the CPU. But for now, since prime95 DID fail, that DOES mean a problem with the CPU, correct? Or could it mean ram? I Have 2 ram chips, so I could test them individually. I don't have the error with me, but it was something like
"Expected 0.4, got 0.5!"

At least I can count out the video card... maybe I should make another topic. (edit: changed topic title)

I seriously still believe it's heat related though, because the only time I get stuttering in games is when the fan is not blowing on the motherboard. I should try running prime95 again with the fan blowing on it.

That's almost certainly caused by RAM. 40c is ice cold for a CPU, if that?s the temp the error occurred at you can rule out your CPU overheating.

Note Prime has different test to test different sub systems of your system. The RAM intensive test puts very little load on the CPU, so you won't likely see much of a temp increase. The test that?s CPU intensive puts very little load on the RAM and may not error out with faulty RAM.

 

[InternetDuder]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1615200&enterthread=y

is the new topic which coveres this problem.

I didn't know prime95 had seperate tests, but memtest86 didn't give any error yet... and its at the time where the compuer would have easily experienced an error already at high load.

When prime95 was running, taskmgr said it was taking up 99% of the cpu, so I assume it was the CPU intesnsive test.