BrokenVisage
Lifer
Hey guys, I've been having some issues with my PC fileserver at home overheating over something as simple as extracting a group of RAR files. Often times when I do some work on it remotely, temperature would sometimes rise to about 65C and stay there until restart.
In the not so distant past I was having overheating issues with this machine too, so I decided to purchase and install a XP-90 on it with some Arctic Silver 5 and it looked like the heat issue went away (even though it still idled at 50C, a little high for something like a XP-90 cooling it in my opinion).
Well apparently it's back now, and this time when it overheats it affects network activity as well. When downloading from newsgroups for example, I see my overall speed drop from 400+ Kbps to 50-20 Kbps, and accessing media from its hard drive on other machines becomes almost impossible because the throughput of information between it and other computers on my LAN becomes highly congested as well.
The computer is an IBM P4 Thinkcentre with 2GB of RAM, so it's not exactly just a 486 peice of junk that I decided to put to good use one day. I leave it in my room so I can capture Transport Streams from my cable box and have it double as a fileserver for now that connects wirelessly to my router.
I'm not looking for a solution more then I'm looking for just some ideas as to why my computer keeps overheating even with proper cooling, and why it overheating effects the network connectivity. Thanks in advance, ask questions if you want to know more about the machine.
In the not so distant past I was having overheating issues with this machine too, so I decided to purchase and install a XP-90 on it with some Arctic Silver 5 and it looked like the heat issue went away (even though it still idled at 50C, a little high for something like a XP-90 cooling it in my opinion).
Well apparently it's back now, and this time when it overheats it affects network activity as well. When downloading from newsgroups for example, I see my overall speed drop from 400+ Kbps to 50-20 Kbps, and accessing media from its hard drive on other machines becomes almost impossible because the throughput of information between it and other computers on my LAN becomes highly congested as well.
The computer is an IBM P4 Thinkcentre with 2GB of RAM, so it's not exactly just a 486 peice of junk that I decided to put to good use one day. I leave it in my room so I can capture Transport Streams from my cable box and have it double as a fileserver for now that connects wirelessly to my router.
I'm not looking for a solution more then I'm looking for just some ideas as to why my computer keeps overheating even with proper cooling, and why it overheating effects the network connectivity. Thanks in advance, ask questions if you want to know more about the machine.
