pentium 4 overheating

[BillyBobJoel71]

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[ts3433]

Does this happen when you multitask? Is Halo often choppy? You could probably use more RAM if that's the case.

Is this the only reason you think it might be overheating? You haven't listed any temps. Get some from BIOS or maybe software and list them (along with which P4 core you have) and someone who knows things about P4s can tell you if you should be worried.

 

[Garlic]

Tell me you put thermal grease between the heat sink and cpu....

 

[gobucks]

i second the RAM suggestion - HL2 skipped constantly when I was using 512MB of RAM. Not sure if it's any different between A64 and P4, but that's a likely culprit - fortunately, 1GB kits are like $90 on newegg right now, so it's pretty cheap fix.

I doubt it's overheating cause as far as i know, the P4 throttles well before overheating would cause a freeze. That means a percentage of its cycles are spent idle, cooling off, so you'd notice everything slow down, but not freeze. For example, with 50% throttling (the highest i think it goes) a 3GHZ P4 would be an effective 1.5GHz P4, so your games would crawl, but not stop.

 

[stevty2889]

yeah, that actualy sounds more like you need more ram, the slowdowns are probably occuring from having to access the much slower page file on your hard drive too often, but you should use a program to monitor your temps if you suspect you are overheating, such as motherboard monitor. You can also download throttlewatch, if the slow downs are caused by temps kicking in the thermal throttling, throttle watch will show it, but I really think it's that you need more ram. If you go to the perfromance tab on task manager, if your peak under commit charge is higher than 512mb, then your ram is being used up.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
my pentium 4 3.00 ghz proc with hyperthreading seems to overheat alot. i have a coolermaster heatsink aluminum. every so often especially often when in games and programs the comp will freeze for a second and then ressume again. but games stop, music stops and speeds up to catch up, and its annyogin, halo makes it do it alot. any solutions?

We need to know your motherboard, the exact model of cpu, and which coolermaster cooler.

There are a lot of coolermaster coolers that are not made for prescott cpus.

What are your temps? The easiest way to check is via the bios, although you wont get "load" temps from there we can tell if your idle temp is abnormal.

As far as the "freezing" is, what games are you playing? Half life 2, the Battlefield Series, Unreal 2, Doom 3, Far Cry, Halo, and UT2004 all need more than 512MB of memory, also are you running dual channel memory?