Voltage/Heat Question.

[Xenon14]

My sister's cpu keeps overheating..system crashes or hangs nonstop. She has a 200FSB 1ghz AMD K7 chip, Asus A7V mobo. The Voltage is at 1.78v (supposedly defaulted by the motherboard, is that too high?) While idle, the temperature reads 57 celcius. The heatsink/fan is a Coolmaster..granted cheap (60x60..@5400rpm) but I have a similar fan (Volcano II) on my K7 1.33ghz system (and from what I understand the K7-C 1.33ghz is one of the hottest K7s that were made) and I get 58 celcius under FULL load. What should I do?? Thanks.

 

[WarCon]

Does she have any case fans? What is her system temp?

Have you tried taking the pad off and using thermal compound (Arctic Silver 3)?

 

[Xenon14]

The fan has a thermal pad on it, i haven't tried the arctic silver (my main concern is why this computer runs so much hotter than my higher clocked cpu). No system fans. Right now i'm running RC5 to see how high the temps will go. As of now the CPU is at 63 celcius the mobo is at 45 celcius

 

[Insidious]

No system fans

I'm guessing it is the stagnant air in that case that is the majority of your problem.

for an experiment, try running with the case open. If that helps significantly, then you just
need to get some air moving and give that heat a place to go.