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CPU suddenly overheating
One day, when I woke up and turned my computer on, it suddenly just became so slow, when I move the mouse it hangs then moves, hangs then moves, i turned off my pc and touch the insides of my cpu and ...
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Dell Inspiron 530 desktop tries 3 times to boot, then fails
First of all, please don't close this question as a duplicate. While it sounds similar to an old question on here, my situation is a bit different.
My Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop has stopped booting. A ...
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CPU cores all different temps [closed]
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CPU Core Temperature Variation
Running i7 X980 and it has 6 cores to it. Idle is typically 32c-38c is that normally for the cores to have different temps like that? Is ...
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Video card is a little noisy. Coffee type grounds near the fan
I have a Palit Nvidia GTX-460 PCie card.
Half the time it is a little noisy. A light rattle and a light squeak.
I have taken it out and have made the following observations.
The fan is not hitting ...
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Does a chassis fan DC12V 0.18a have higher RPM than one with DC12V 0.16a?
I am going to purchase a few chassis fans (12cm) for my computer and the salesperson told me that a fan with DC12V 0.18a has higher RPM than one with DC12v 0.16a.
I don't know anything about ...
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Will replacing an on-board display card with a standalone display card generate less heat?
When I run some gaming applications, my computer which uses an on-board display card becomes very hot very quickly.
Do you think replacing an on-board display card with a standalone one will generate ...
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What subsystems are operational when a computer is at sleep mode?
Is it only the RAM, a RAM controller, and perhaps a BUS controller related to RAM controller and a Power system? I assume the CPU is dead, because that might require cooling. And I don't see any ...
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Quiet cooling for home server in 4U case [closed]
Recently I've become quite annoyed by the noise my home server puts out. After I had to swap out the "silent" (in name only) PSU for a regular spare after the old one shorted out the noise level has ...
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Processor overheats like crazy
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for this, but here we go:
I've had this current system for a little more than a year:
Asus P7P55D-E
Intel Core i5 760 (no overclock at all!) - stock ...
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What is a more or less safe frequency to OC an i7 2600k to? [closed]
My setup is as follows:
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z68A-D3H-B3
CPU: Intel core i7 2600k sandy bridge
Memory: CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin (1866)
Fan: Thermaltake frio
How far do you reckon I ...
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How may I know if a chip that needs cooling will reduce speed if temperature increases?
I saw this video some time ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P2_9THvQcc
How may I know if a chip that needs cooling will reduce speed if temperature increases (maybe because the fan breaks)?
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Does the height of a CPU's heatsink affect the cooling?
The CPU of my computer has a quite tall (about 1.5in I think) heatsink compared to the one my friend's computer had, and this question has been in my mind for a while. Does the height of a CPU's ...
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Windows 8 consumer preview always hangs up? [closed]
Windows 8 consumer preview always hangs up and i have to restart my lap every time even Ctrl + Alt + Del not working and my lap heat is hight, so what to do???
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Motherboard temperature reaches 124° C?
This is a brand new PC build (only a few days old.) There are plenty of fans in the case, but after a few hours of playing Skyrim, this is what Speccy reports:
My usual motherboard idle temperature ...
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Completely silent cooling system [closed]
I am not really a tech enthusiast, and I have a little old computer that is noisy and hot. Albeit old, it was a top machine when bought, and is enough for my needs. The specs are:
CPU Intel(R) ...
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Does the Raspberry Pi run hot?
I know they come out with a plugin computer called the Guru Plug a while back in which someone complained it ran so hot they burned their fingers while trying to unplug an ethernet cable: ...
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Mounting LGA1366 Xeon w3680 on a motherboard
I am putting a home server/workstation together and am having a hard time mounting a Xeon W3680 onto a Supermicro MBD-X8DTH-6F-O board. Its the first time in a good 10 years that I assemble a machine ...
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Finder Error -36 with Console I/O Error - potential causes?
I'm copying a lot of data between two hard drives. The first one (the source) was getting a lot of repetitive Finder Error -36 codes. Scanning the Console this is linked to an I/O Error coming from ...
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GPU overheating
I have an nVidia GTS250 that, in the last couple of months, has decided that it has a problem with newer games. Older games are fine, but anything made in the last couple of years will eventually make ...
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What does the LN2 switch on Asus ROG motherboards actually change?
I have an Asus ROG series motherboard (it's a Maximus IV Extreme) and there's a toggle switch on the board called the "LN2 Mode Switch". I gather this is used to try and remedy cold boot bugs when ...
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What's the maximum safe temperature for a HD Radeon 6870?
I'm running a passively cooled HD Radeon 6870 in my PC. While using 3D Acceleration, the temperature climbs up to 95 degrees Celsius according to SpeedFan. It seems a bit hot, but on the other hand ...
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Fitting Corsair H60 into NZXT m59
I'm building a desktop for the first time with the NZXT m59 case and I'm trying to install a Corsair H60 liquid cooler.
It appears to be already set up and everything so all I need to do is attach ...
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Laptops and heat
I have dealt with dozens of laptops over the years that simply cannot withstand maintained 100% CPU usage for more than a short while using stock cooling. Not one (although to be fair they're mostly ...
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MacBook Pro suddenly getting very hot when using external monitor
My MBP (unibody, Summer 2010) has suddenly begun getting very hot and running the fans at full speed when I have an external monitor plugged in via the mini display port. I've used the monitor for ...
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What is the best liquid for a liquid cooling system?
I am thinking of putting together a gaming computer with a home-built cooling system. I was wondering what I should use in order to not have it freeze up.
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Mounting the Thermalright HR-02 Macho cooler on Asus P8Z68-V?
I just bought a HR-02 Macho for use with my Asus P8Z68-V without completely reading through all the documents on Thermalrights website. Upon trying to mount it on the motherboard, I noticed that there ...
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What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
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My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually traced it to random ...
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Invalid (100°C?) CPU temp sensor - how do I disable throttling?
I have a Quad core Q9550 processor, and it is displaying the temperature of 86 - 100 °C. I'm pretty sure that's not correct, since just a few minutes ago I have reapplied the thermal parse and right ...
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MacBook Pro laptop cooling pad DIY
I'm planning to create my own cooling pad for my MacBook Pro (2011).
Which is the better airflow direction - is it preferred to suck air away from the MacBook, or blow it towards the Mac?
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Can I use an old sempron stock heat sink with a Phenom II processor?
I'm upgrading from an old AMD Sempron 140 to a Phenom II 945. The motherboard will be the same.
Assuming I'm not planning to overclock, can I still use the same stock AMD heat sink that came with ...
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HP DV7 shows blank screen and does not start up, probably due to heat issues
I have a HP DV7, with an AMD Turion X2 ZM-85, purchased about 1.5 years ago.
Initially the laptop screen turned black. Only the screen – the machine was running. I could hear the fan spinning. Then I ...
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Does Catalyst Control Center Manual Fan Control get disabled when GPU dangerously overheats?
I'd like to enable AMD Overdrive and Manual Fan Control in Catalyst Control Center and reduce fan speed to minimum (20%) but I'm afraid what happens if I start using the card heavily and forget to ...
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Is a cooling fan necessary for a laptop similar to the ASUS K73E?
Is a cooling fan necessary for a laptop similar to the ASUS K73E?
I'm not entirely sure about this. After working with one the other day for a client, it seemed like it was running pretty cool, but ...
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After replacing CPU cooler, PC doesn't power on
So I bought a new AC Freezer 7 Pro to replace the stock cooler.
I fixed it on, and at first it only works for a few seconds, then shuts off. Of course, I realised it was the thermal shutoff. I saw ...
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Standby of the Windows Server 2008 r2
We have a computation rack server (PY RX600S5 X7550) running Windows Server 2008 r2. We access the server by remote desktop.
Sometimes it happens that the temperature raises in the room where it is ...
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Ubuntu heating my laptop
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (classic). The laptop is getting very very hot and often it shuts down due to over heat.
When I use Windows on the same laptop (dual boot) its fine and heat is almost ...
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CPU temperature too high but fan not running at max speed
I think I am having some problem with processor fan... it never runs on full speed event though my processor temperature is going so high. I am using HWMonitor (also speedfan) to record temperatures ...
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XSensors is giving me scary readings ?
I am these readings from XSensors, really scary can someone tell me what might be wrong with my system. I did replace the thermal compound with Cooler Master HTK-002 still no difference the ...
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What is the ideal/normal CPU temperature? (Intel Q2800) [closed]
I think I am having some problem with processor fan... but I am not sure as I never checked the temperature before so I don’t know currently is it ok or not.
I am using HWMonitor to record ...
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Why does my laptop gets extremely hot when battery is in and an intensive task is running?
I've run into this issue already, where when the battery is in and I'm running Folding@Home or other extremely CPU intensive tasks a temperature monitor reports temperatures up to 200°F/92°C. ...
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Dell Inspiron 1564 overheating but fan not switching on, how to diagnose?
I've got a Dell Inspiron 1564 laptop that is about one and a half years old. Since about a week, the laptop started to overheat, causing it to switch off unexpectedly...
The cpu fan is working ...
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Will an SSD help prevent laptop overheating?
My laptop has a severe overheating problem, even though it's quite new (< 6 month). It's still regularly overheating to the point where it shuts down. This usually happens while playing games but ...
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Can I install a new separate graphics card in my desktop pc
I have a Core2Duo processor (E6300, @1.86 GHz). I want to know if installing a separate new graphics card eat up more CPU's power than having an integrated graphics.
And also do I have to pay more ...
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Gateway NV52 Randomly Shutting Down After 15min of Memtest
I have a gateway NV52 that is randomly shutting down after running memtest from the Ubuntu Live CD, I have also tried the memtest on a regular cd and memtest on the ultimate boot cd.
The test run for ...
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Does RAM cooling make a difference to performance?
Just what the title states.
I'm looking to add a heat-spreader to my DDR3-1333 CL9 chips, and wondering whether it might make a difference ... and if so, how much
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Is there a 4 port graphics card with active cooling? [closed]
As I wrote in the question, does anybody know a PCI/PCI express graphics card for PC that has 4 ports and is actively cooled. If possible in half-height format (but that's not a must).
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What is an acceptable temperature spread between CPU & heatsink temps?
My computer gives the following temperatures:
CPU: 68°C
CPU Heatsink: 52°C
Can I read these numbers to interpret how efficiently heat is being conducted away from the CPU?
If so, is there a ...
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i7 with aftermarket heatsink still hot
I have an i7 2600 processor running with an after market coolermaster heatsink. I've tried two different aftermarket heatsinks and the stock. The cpu runs at idle around 40-45c in my room that is ...
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Why does my laptop overheat and slow down even when I'm doing light things?
Here's my spec.
System
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Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Model HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Total amount of ...
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Can I use a wine cooler as a PC case? [closed]
I've always wanted a custom PC case that housed my routers, external NAS, motherboard and hard drives that kept everything at a steady temperature since my room does not get the best cooling (very hot ...
