Silly heat question (Like we need another one)

Oyeve

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This has NEVER happened to me but I read about a lot of others getting this. I have a Pee3 650mhz, NOT overclocked, I have an ASUS 6800 DLX, NOT overclocked. I have six sytem fans blowing in the right order as to maintain proper air flow. Whilst playing some stupid 3d game (I forget which one) the PC rebooted. Weird I thought, that usually happens when a system is overheated (which I read somewhere). So anyway, I whip the door off my tower to make sure all the fans are turning, and they are. I make sure my little fan in the vid card is turning and not dirty or something, and it is clean. I touched the side of the card opposite the heat sink and burned my freaking finger! OUCH!! I whipped the card out of the system (after I turned it of, natch) and popped the heat sink and reapplied thermal grease. But I am wondering, should it be that hot? I can touch it for several seconds before it becomes unbearable. Is this normal?
 

Wuming

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do you experience system freezes from time to time? or does your system hang frequently for no reason? if not then i think the temperature is not causing much problems. just make sure ventilation is good inside your computer, with fans sucking in air from the front and blowing it out from the back (or vice versa). shouldn't be much prob! :)
 

spamboy

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If I even touch the heatsink of my ATI Rage Pro it will burn me but I have no stability problems. I doubt that is the problem. I went through a period where my system would reboot without warning as well. I raised the CPU voltage up a notch and it worked fine. I have a Celeron 566. I had been overclocking for a while and then it started up and ever since, it won't even run at stock speed at the stock voltage. I can still overclock it with increased voltage...
 

Oyeve

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The "reboot" just happened the one time. I am more concerned with how hot the vid card gets.
 

jamarno

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It's probably 145F or less if you can keep your finger on it for several seconds. But if you have six fans in your system you're not cooling it right.
 

Oyeve

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I have two fans all the way on the top rear of the system blowing out the rear, I have one HUGE fan on the lower front sucking air into the case, I have a slot fan on the lowest slot that pushes air out, I have two fans on the heatsink on the CPU, plus the fan on the vid card. I think the air flow is optimum.I drilled extra holes in the caes for the lower front fan.