The modDB Bar Thread

I dunno I kinda like it.

Confusing aint the word! lol... I've given up on it for a while tho (I'll go back to it later and maybe restart the map) to try out 'Unreal 2 : The Awakening' and tbh that's a lot more fun, and most importantly, easier to follow! lol.

ITS ALL YOUR FAULT! :< HOW COULD YOU LEAVE US UNATTENDED?!

Brighton and Barcelona don't go together WTF! Gayest ad ever!

I was off for 4 days and I have no idea what's happened

International Caps Lock Day perhaps?

My CPU overheated and I couldn't turn it on after I cleaned it, but I'm back. God damn, I feel sorry for my computer, turns out it didn't have any heat-sink compound to prevent it from heating for all this time

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

I have some problems with my motherboard heating... so I have to use a table fan to keep it cool.

*buys a ticket to watch* ^^^

tnathan475 wrote:

Toyoka wrote:My CPU overheated and I couldn't turn it on after I cleaned it, but I'm back. God damn, I feel sorry for my computer, turns out it didn't have any heat-sink compound to prevent it from heating for all this time

So you just had the heat sink resting on top of the CPU?

Basically yea, for a little under a year which I bet really crippled my CPU. Now that I have some heatsink compound on it, it's not heating up as much, but it is still hotter than expected. The thing is though, my motherboard was built into the side of the computer, not the bottom, so technically the heatsink isn't sitting ontop of the CPU, rather, the side

I've been using SpeedFan as recommended by one of my father's friends (who is by the way, an expert when it comes to this stuff, he was even part of a company who made a couple of games [can't remember the name ]) for some time now. It's been somewhat informative thus far, but didn't help much in terms of getting any problems fixed, or optimizing my machine. Anyone want to recommend any sort of program/software that could optimize my computer's processing or just optimizing in general (Free or not, doesn't matter. I'll buy it if it costs a pretty penny )?

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

I currently have an Intel Avalon D915GAV motherboard model, and my CPU is an Intel Pentium 4 515, 2933 MHz model. On idle, my CPU is near 57*C (my GPU is already at around 63) and when I'm loading some "graphically intensive" (they aren't really that graphically intensive at all, they are just more graphical than regular web pages) my CPU/GPU spikes to around 70*C and then back down again (when playing games, I presume it goes slightly higher). Even though my computer has recently been cleaned from dust (with an air duster of course) , and having the heatsink/CPU now properly applied with a silicon-based heatsink compound; it still seems to produce a lot of heat, almost as much as before I did all of this. There aren't really any problems apart from slow processing speed (presumably due to how much the CPU has to process + the amount of heat it has to cope with) and possibly even irregualr patterns of low FPS rate during gameplay, although, that could just be my graphics card settings. Anyway, help is appreciated

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

The P4 is just a hot processor, mine runs at 73C (which is the maximum temp for my specific processor.) Granted its 5 years old now, but it still runs inside the specs.

I had a card and the fan died on it. I do believe it was a BFG GeForce 6600GT overclocked to 512mb. The fan on it magically one day crapped out and it couldn't dissipate heat for anything. I decided to run a quick test so I opened up the NVIDIA temperature program and made sure it was on the right tab, and I played Call of Duty 2 for 5 minutes. I quit, immediately opened the temp program, and my video card was hot enough to boil water, 105C.