a good suggestion for overall better sys. stability

[cookedcomp]

I have a wierd story that happened to me yesterday. When i woke up my nieghbor had brought me a server and turbolinux. After setting up linux i noticed that my main computers temps had gone throught the roof! The sytem had reached 61C!!!! (D700 @ 1125). This was very odd because it usualy sits at a comfortable 47C. So i shut it down and inspected the system top to bottom, nothing whong. then i tryed unpluging the server and booting mine back up.......BOOM! $%#$% braker blows!!! This was a very bad turn of events. So after reseting the braker I tryed running all 3 of my comps at once..........BOOM! IT HAPPEND AGAIN!! CRAP!! So it was time for a trip to the H/W store. I picked up 3 sercuit brakers box of 15 Amp wireing and 3 socket boxes. Installing all of this crap in my hose took almost the whole day!but in return i got a separate circuit for all of my comps!! my main PC now runs at 43C 8) . so my theory on this is that if a computer does not have suficiant curent flow to supply the cpu and board that this can actualy stess the circuits and cause instability(eg. very drousy human trying to drive!)

 

[Hoot]

I'm no Linux man, but I read somewhere that as an O/S, it works the CPU harder than Windows. That could account for the elevated temps. Ever run burnk6.exe? It's an excellent Dos burn-in program for AMD CPUs. Beats the pants off of Prime95 Torture for higher temp and getting up there fast. I got it from the front page here. apparently, that is what Swiftech uses for testing.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips166/cpuburn2.zip

Hoot

 

[batboy]

It's similar to needing a bigger power supply when overclocking with a case full of fans, cards, and drives. Extra watts don't give you much benefit, but not enough wattage will give you lots of headaches.