Hi there,
I built a computer based on some old parts I had (and some new ones that I ordered) for my cousin. I live in Seattle and he lives in New York. Thank God after 7 days of UPS Ground it arrived there pretty in-tact, except for the fan on the SLK800 heatsink came dislodged. When he booted it for the first time and inspected the Asus Probe temperature monitor, the CPU temp was around 65C at idle with the fan spinning properly and blowing air through the SLK800 fins. This is contrary to my experience with that particular computer as I was assembling it. Max temperature at maximum 100% CPU load was around 54C or so, idle was somewhere in the 40's. I had him do a quick compression test in virtualdubmod, and within seconds the CPU temperature was approaching 70 degrees. I had him abort the test immediately before it got any higher, it might have hit 80 at the rate it was going.
Are there any theories to explain what might be going on? He says the heatsink is securely fitted to the CPU, but with this evidence I doubt that. He's extremely hesitant about refitting the heatsink because he's never messed with a computer's internals before. I told him to grow new balls, but it's not convinced him. Until the situation is resolved I've told him not to do anything CPU intensive like divx encode, seti, etc.
Has anyone experienced something similar after shipping a computer with a heavy heatsink like the SLK800? This would be music to my ears, i.e. knowing that nothing much more sinister is actually going on would be a big relief for me.
I built a computer based on some old parts I had (and some new ones that I ordered) for my cousin. I live in Seattle and he lives in New York. Thank God after 7 days of UPS Ground it arrived there pretty in-tact, except for the fan on the SLK800 heatsink came dislodged. When he booted it for the first time and inspected the Asus Probe temperature monitor, the CPU temp was around 65C at idle with the fan spinning properly and blowing air through the SLK800 fins. This is contrary to my experience with that particular computer as I was assembling it. Max temperature at maximum 100% CPU load was around 54C or so, idle was somewhere in the 40's. I had him do a quick compression test in virtualdubmod, and within seconds the CPU temperature was approaching 70 degrees. I had him abort the test immediately before it got any higher, it might have hit 80 at the rate it was going.
Are there any theories to explain what might be going on? He says the heatsink is securely fitted to the CPU, but with this evidence I doubt that. He's extremely hesitant about refitting the heatsink because he's never messed with a computer's internals before. I told him to grow new balls, but it's not convinced him. Until the situation is resolved I've told him not to do anything CPU intensive like divx encode, seti, etc.
Has anyone experienced something similar after shipping a computer with a heavy heatsink like the SLK800? This would be music to my ears, i.e. knowing that nothing much more sinister is actually going on would be a big relief for me.
