CPU OverheatingFollow

I have a pretty well set up in my PC. It is a home built PC with an Intel D875PBZ motherboard, 3.0 Gig HT P4 800mhz FB, Nvidia 5900 Ultra 256mb VPU, and 1 Gig of RAM.

I have a Themaltake Xaser III case running 7 cooling fans, 2 fans on my video card and of course my CPU fan for a total of 10 fans in that case.

I never give out PC specs but in this case for once it seems relevant. I have never in the year i have had this PC had a single problem with coming remotely close to overheating anything. Now though ever since the first Upgrade for the Final Stress Test that was 19mb I believe, I am having an overheating problem where my CPU heats up to 69 degrees Celsius. (155 Fahrenheit??)

First i thought my CPU was going bad. (only 3 months old but **** happens) So i gutted my entire PC. Re-rooted all my wiring to have a nice clear path for air flow, cleaned every bit of dust off all parts, and took my heatsink off of my CPU and vacuumed every crevice of it. Then stripped all the compound off my CPU and heatsink and put a fresh new layer on it.

Now when running the game i can keep it below 65 degrees Celsius, which though is still running pretty hot for me. Idle i am running a nice 44-46 degrees which is about the norm for my PC. Other games i have no problems still. Could WoW be putting a heavy load on the CPU after that last patch? Then all of a sudden i started recieving Non-Responsive program errors when WoW would lock up on me.

I never thought much about it till a friend of mine today sent me this.



Ever since I have cleaned my PC out i have not overheated, but it does still run hotter than I would like.

Edited, Tue Nov 30 21:17:09 2004 by Rialian

I figured i would post this because i know other people i play with online are having the same problems. All were having game crashing problems and when they decided to test the CPU heat it was all similar to mine. It was just all to coincidental.

I am curious though if anyone else notices this also. Maybe not a complete overheating problem like mine, but if you notice that your CPU is running much hotter than it does with any other games you may play at the time.

It depends. If you got a new heatsink you might of left the protective strip on the bottom. Or maybe your thermal compound is ******. I got some arctic silver 5 for mine. Other than that I have no clue.

Well it sounds like it is not an anomoly. Any problems with HL2 or other DX9c games? like HL2?

One or more of your several fans may be dying slowly causing overheating issues. I would go with Erics advice as well. Just take a side off your case and check, and anyone else with 3 or more casefans (myself included) should do this if they have CPU related issues. CPU Damage = teh PC Death.

Nope, I am going to get a new one today and a new fan because my temps won't drop below 60 while the game is running.



Again no, any other DX9c games i have run at maybe 55 max. Don't have HL2 though.



All of my case fans seem to be running fine, they are all on controllers in pairs of 2. RPMs are in the normal range on all of them.



Don't overclock at all, no need to, I've never had a problem running anything slow.

Overheating has stopped for now, I just wish i could get operating at a lower temp while running the game. If it happened with everygame I had i would suspect one of the problems above, but this is the only game. Its just odd that all this has happened to me and other people I know since that first patch in the final stress test. One friend of mine can't even play the game anymore since that patch because after running the game for 1 and a half hours max everything locks up on them.

Most likely I am going to buy a new fan and heatsink tonight. See if that helps out any.