Tech Issues
by Airianna Williams · in Hardware Issues · 10/02/2011 (7:01 am) · 1 replies
I am running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my machine.
3.4 GHz Phemon II Quad Core (peeled back the voltage from 3.75 to 2.5 to prevent overheating)
1 GB GDDR3 GeForce 9800 GT (Express 2.0)
6 GB DDR3 Ram (had 8. Ram Slot #4 died, caused unexpected crashes Just before it totally died)
1 TB HD
Attempting to Run 2-4 graphics intense programs at the same time, enormous Processor work loads without having to under clock it, wanting to overclock it to speed it up.
What I need is a new Motherboard and heat sinks that are capabel of handling the workloads I demand of my computer. Current processor heat sink is the ULTRA Cool Tech, works great for some of the older programs I have, but is not effective enough to run Torque 3D at full graphics settings by it's self, the heat sink begins to overheat (149F+) after 10 minutes of using the program, and have to shut it down, cool down is about 3 minutes (back to 84-90 F). Also my GPU is trying to overheat as well (at 153 F, computer shuts off to protect it's self). I have an AC unit blowing directly into the case on to the Video Card and processor heat sinks, else it would overheat faster.
I would like some recomendations as to what sort of cooling units I should install.
3.4 GHz Phemon II Quad Core (peeled back the voltage from 3.75 to 2.5 to prevent overheating)
1 GB GDDR3 GeForce 9800 GT (Express 2.0)
6 GB DDR3 Ram (had 8. Ram Slot #4 died, caused unexpected crashes Just before it totally died)
1 TB HD
Attempting to Run 2-4 graphics intense programs at the same time, enormous Processor work loads without having to under clock it, wanting to overclock it to speed it up.
What I need is a new Motherboard and heat sinks that are capabel of handling the workloads I demand of my computer. Current processor heat sink is the ULTRA Cool Tech, works great for some of the older programs I have, but is not effective enough to run Torque 3D at full graphics settings by it's self, the heat sink begins to overheat (149F+) after 10 minutes of using the program, and have to shut it down, cool down is about 3 minutes (back to 84-90 F). Also my GPU is trying to overheat as well (at 153 F, computer shuts off to protect it's self). I have an AC unit blowing directly into the case on to the Video Card and processor heat sinks, else it would overheat faster.
I would like some recomendations as to what sort of cooling units I should install.
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your CPU sounds like its the same as mine, the AMD 965, according to information ive read the limit is 55C but mine regularly hits 61C and i believe some kind of auto throttle slows teh CPU down, the paperwork also states that using non stock MAD retail fan invalidates warranty , fun stuff.
As for the GPU i was looking this up and apparently some of the nvidia GPUs are rated up to 115C, i ditched my 8800GTX because it was hitting 98C.
Id dare to suggest that your CPU overheat is down to a badly fitted heatsink using poor quality or too much thermal compound.
As a side note, torque only use one of your 4 cores, ive forced torque to use vsync which limits its framerate to 60 fps, this lowered my GPU temps quite a bit, and as a side bonus, stopped my GPU fan sounding like a chinook helicopter.
As for cooling hardware tbh its been mu experience that unless you spend a fortune buying the best there is, the benefits are negligable, one could argue that you'd be better buying better quality GPU/CPU packages