For a few days from bow my system hits very high temperatures making the games stop and the system reset.the most high temperature i got was 89 Celsius!hah:,i even installed a CoolerMaster UV Series chassis fan but nothing. What should i do? My System: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz ASUS EAX1600PRO DDR2 512MB 1 GB Ram AsRock Dual Bus Motherboard
The CPU fan is running properly,hmmm,maybe the problem is the heat in italy,but the thing is that the games exit and the computer reboots
While, yes, ambient temps do affect CPU temperature, 98*C is way out of spec. Something tells me that if the fan's working, the CPU heatsink either isn't enough or not making proper contact. If you're using the stock Intel heatsink, that's pretty good and should be more than sufficient. Remove the CPU heatsink, clean off the thermal paste completely with some isopropyl alcohol and then apply a paper thin layer of thermal paste. Applying more than a thin amount of paste will act as a heat insulator rather than assist tranferring the heat.
with my Pentium 4 3ghz, my idle temperature was 52 degrees and in games it got to 80degrees, i even installed a new fan (Arctic Freezer 4) and the temps were exatly the same :s, and that cant be right, either the CPU is faulty, Maybe faulty temp sensors?
I don't know,hah: removing the heatsink i constated that there was no thermal paste maybe that's the problem
Under the CPU? You must mean under the heatsink. Put a very thin layer of thermal paste on the die (big shiny part) of the CPU. Then put the heatsink back on.
Also, the reason you have a thin layer is to fill in the micro gaps on the surfaces which facilitate a better transfer of heat. Globbing it on will cause the thermal paste to act like an insulator for the heat. Obviously, this is the exact opposite of the desired effect.
