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Solve : Custom Built PC shuts down during Games or after a good while.? |
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Answer» Hey there guys, ill get right into it. I recently bought a few pieces of hardware to build a custom computer. Yea 96, and jeex, i just realized i did forget to apply thermal paste to teh cpu before putting it on. For some reason at the time I thought it already came with some lached on, but it just slipped my mind. How much should I put when I go buy some? How much area to be covered? Generally, put a pea-sized amount right in the center. Don't spread it out, as when you lock the CPU fan down, the pressure will cause it to flatten out more or less smooth and even. Check in the BIOS and see what your temperatures say too, just to make sure that system reading isn't off.Will do, I dont understand why they don't give any thermal paste when buying Processors, it's 11 at night and i'd like to get that done right now but nothing's open. I hope that's the case. Aside from all this tho, is there any other possible explanations for what may be the cause?Well, I think that's definitely the cause. Thermal paste will make a huge difference in dissipating heat from the CPU. As for the motherboard temperature, got me. 96C when it's mostly just sitting there is high beyond reason. That's why I wondered if either it was a bad reading. Quote from: quaxo on June 22, 2009, 12:25:07 AM Well, I think that's definitely the cause. Thermal paste will make a huge difference in dissipating heat from the CPU. As for the motherboard temperature, got me. 96C when it's mostly just sitting there is high beyond reason. That's why I wondered if either it was a bad reading. Fair enough, ill try to get some later tomorrow. Another question, you think my CPU may have suffered any damage or durability for not having done this? It's been about 2 days that i've used it, and only a few hours really.Probably not enough to notice, if at all. I'd quit playing games until the temperature thing is resolved though.I'll look at this more later, there was talk of a transfered drive.xmorbidartx, Check this out: http://www.arcticsilver.com/instructions.htm Are you sure that all of your standoffs are in place? Are all of your fans blowing in the right direction? Are all of your power cords connected properly? Also, you will get a lot better performance out of your machine if you do a clean install of the operating system. Do you have the windows disk?Yea, I just bought the As Arctic Silver 5, added about a pea size amount to the center of the CPU, placed the heatsink + fan on top and hoped it spread the material around decently, at the moment Speedfna reports my system temperature is 90C, down from 97C from yesturday, but also gotta consider I just turned it on. I'll do a clean boot of windows right now, just to say "well I tried that too" I'll be back guys, I appreciate the support. As for the fans they are blowing the correct direction, by stnadoffs, you mean the pins that the heatsink/fan have? I actually had a bit of a difficult time placing those things together, they just wouldnt ALL go in >.<. Quote at the moment Speedfna reports my system temperature is 90C, down from 97C from yesturday, That's still way too hot. Quote from: xmorbidartx on June 22, 2009, 12:34:39 AM Another question, you think my CPU may have suffered any damage or durability for not having done this? It's been about 2 days that i've used it, and only a few hours really.Definitively no damage. First, excessive temperature only causes timing changes so large that some internal functions don't 'time' correctly. Therefore the CPU only crashes. Second, Intel CPUs (even in the 80486) contained protection circuits so that a CPU without any heatsink would not be damaged. THIRD, destructive temperatures are extremely higher than temperatures that only change timing. Fourth, a properly machined heatsink without thermal compound should provide sufficient cooling especially in a room of 70 degree F. The lowest thermal resistance is a contact directly between CPU and heatsink - only two media changes. Thermal compound is less conductive - more media. Thermal compound is only to fill those fewer air holes so that heat transfer through an insulator (from CPU to air pocket to heatsink) has less thermal resistance (CPU to thermal compound to heatsink). That is why so little thermal compound is required and so little remains where most all heat gets transfered. What is the degree C per watt number for that heatsink? If the manufacturer does not provide it, well appreciate why he made a heatsink that needs thermal compound. We use thermal compound to reduce CPU temperatures by single digit degrees. If thermal compound results in lower CPU temperatures, then why is that heatsink surface so poorly machined. (BTW, a perfectly flat surface is improper machining.) I think you need better airflow in your PC.dunno if this will help but i had the same thing happen to my custom beast it only happened while gaming. it was my graphics card try changing that i dunno if that will help with the heat but might with the crashing |
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