I was tired of my P250 so I went out and bought an AMD athalon1000 which came with the motherboard, CPU, a fan and some RAM (224). the mobo is by a company called "1st mainboard" model AZ11.
Anyhow, I have been having problems with my computer locking up- the screen just freezes and I have to re-boot and 95% of the time when I reboot right away, the screen will freeze up again when I get to the desktop.
Its taken me a long while to figure out that the cause of this is that my CPU is overheating pretty severely. I discovered this by removing the side of my case and feeling the temp at the botton of the heatsink as close as i can get to the CPU after a freeze up, which sometimes was too hot for me to leave my finger there for very long.
I can surf the web all day and the CPU never gets hot, i've been on the net for about an hour now and i cant feel any heat at all, its the games that I play that are causing my problems.
There are some days that I spend up to 6 hours playing some of the massive multiplayer RPGs (like everquest) and games like Quake 3 and for some reason, my CPU runs much hotter when I play those games.
I have removed the heatsink it came with and added one I got at a computer store for $21 - on the package it said "generic heatsink" and claimed to work with CPUs up to 1200 mhz. It looks like a hollowed out aluminum block with about 20 wafer-thin copper plates running through it and a fan at the end which blows through. The fan does not face the CPU, the airflow dirrection is toward the back of the case.
didnt help. Then I decided to just keep the side of my case open and placed a desk fan in front of the CPU to blow on it as it ran. didnt help, the games I play are just causing it to run too hot and causing the system to freeze up. sometimes it will freeze up after I am done playing one of those games and am surfing the web, so i guess that once it gets hot, it does not cool down very eaisly.
I am not sure if it makes a diference which 3D card I am using but its an older one- a Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee.
anyone have any ideas? what temprature should my CPU be running at? is there software I can download which will tell me what my CPU temp is?
great forums ya have here by the way.
Anyhow, I have been having problems with my computer locking up- the screen just freezes and I have to re-boot and 95% of the time when I reboot right away, the screen will freeze up again when I get to the desktop.
Its taken me a long while to figure out that the cause of this is that my CPU is overheating pretty severely. I discovered this by removing the side of my case and feeling the temp at the botton of the heatsink as close as i can get to the CPU after a freeze up, which sometimes was too hot for me to leave my finger there for very long.
I can surf the web all day and the CPU never gets hot, i've been on the net for about an hour now and i cant feel any heat at all, its the games that I play that are causing my problems.
There are some days that I spend up to 6 hours playing some of the massive multiplayer RPGs (like everquest) and games like Quake 3 and for some reason, my CPU runs much hotter when I play those games.
I have removed the heatsink it came with and added one I got at a computer store for $21 - on the package it said "generic heatsink" and claimed to work with CPUs up to 1200 mhz. It looks like a hollowed out aluminum block with about 20 wafer-thin copper plates running through it and a fan at the end which blows through. The fan does not face the CPU, the airflow dirrection is toward the back of the case.
didnt help. Then I decided to just keep the side of my case open and placed a desk fan in front of the CPU to blow on it as it ran. didnt help, the games I play are just causing it to run too hot and causing the system to freeze up. sometimes it will freeze up after I am done playing one of those games and am surfing the web, so i guess that once it gets hot, it does not cool down very eaisly.
I am not sure if it makes a diference which 3D card I am using but its an older one- a Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee.
anyone have any ideas? what temprature should my CPU be running at? is there software I can download which will tell me what my CPU temp is?
great forums ya have here by the way.
