On Thursday 28 April 2005 21:06, Leen de Braal wrote:
Pieter Hulshoff zei:
As mentioned in the thread about my glorious cooling problems: I seem to be in a posession of a CPU that dies when it reaches 53-55C. Is it time to buy myself a new CPU, should I just get a better cooler, or should I change both while I'm at it? Any suggestions on a brand/type for the cooler?
Had this with an AMD2000+. I also thought it was the CPU-cooler, but it turned out to be the powersupply with a very slow going fan. The PS was getting much hotter than usual and this one froze everything, also because of this there was no airflow through the case. When this happened, CPU temp reached about 50C - 55C, getting me into changing the cooler after a while. Problems came back, but after changing the PS, CPU stays at 40-45, no freezes anymore.
I've already got a new 480W Tagan PSU, installed just a few weeks ago, so I'm kinda hoping that isn't it. :) From your story I gather though that dying at 50-55C isn't _that_ strange, so a new cooler sounds like a good idea. Regards, Pieter