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Toyoka What's that all aboot, eh?	Jul 2 2009, 11:46pm Anchor
Toyoka What's that all aboot, eh?	tnathan475 wrote:yeah thats more than pretty hot for your CPU to get especially if it isnt at full load. (a GPU around 70 degrees at load depending on type of GPU is fine). More than likely you crippled your CPU and perhaps the socket on the motherboard when the heatsink was not correctly applied, excessive heat can do alot of damage especially over a long time. best bet- get a new CPU and motherboard (core 2 duos are pretty cheap now). you could try leaving your case lid open and pointing a desk fan at it too, but i think your kinda boned. how much thermal compound did you use by the way? I followed online instructions which had told me to use the equivalent of 1 uncooked grain of rice (pretty precise I must say) and yes, both the heatsink and the CPU was clean of the thermal pad that had previously been there, that was later removed. My case lid was always open, and my heatsink has its own fan that runs at around 1200 RPM. Assaultman67 wrote: Toyoka wrote: 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... ? holy crap ... and you played games on it ... That has to be a low watt CPU or it would have burned up months ago ... Toyoka wrote: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. Did you remember to clean the surface of the CPU and the heat sink via a q-tip (or something) with rubbing alcohol before you applied the compound? Spector wrote: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. Intel's P4's do run hot ... i remember discussions about Intel chips having problems dissipating heat fast enough ... My advice? gut an old mini fridge and rig it to work on the inside of the case ... then hermetically seal the case and remove all moisture ... (this is a joke, although, ive always wanted to try it ) Yup, I myself am surprised it hasn't died on me thus far. In fact, its running on a 550W silent fan power supply since I upgraded my HD and graphics card to an 8600 GTS (about a year or so ago). My computer is also kind of old, been upgrading it slowly ever since, but not drastically. I'll probably get a new motherboard/CPU, but I'm a bit tight on money and my parents don't want me to spend heavily because we are all kind of in a tight budget since my dad moved to Alberta till who knows when for some crappy job that payed half the amount he was getting when he worked here back home. Anyway, seems like my power supply isn't working at the moment, I'm too tired today so I'll diagnos the problem tomorrow. yawn Edit: It seems my power supply fan hasn't been spinning either... god damnit Edited by: Toyoka
Kee715 I'm a gamer at heart, but I'm limited by my surroundings.	Jul 3 2009, 10:42pm Anchor
	Life just gave me a bitch-slap to the face and said "fuck you". I did not want to post this in the forum AND as a blog, so a link shall suffice. -- Good, bad, I'm the guy with the Minigun, Chainsaw, and a big a** Cannon.
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 5:27am Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Assaultman67 wrote: Lucifer wrote: Sticky wrote: backhands you Back into line, slave. backhands you in return Its not Sunday. runs across the bar and breaks a pool cue over Lucifer's heads and then uses a bar stool to hit sticky "TeeHee ... ive always wanted to do that" Sets a million tentacles on Assaultman --
p0rt mincemeat n onions	Jul 4 2009, 6:58am Anchor
p0rt mincemeat n onions	sounds fucking ay\ce/, place needs some pole dancers -- quake 4 militia rCon 1.7 mod - repacked into pk4s with dds images => point release 1.4.2, both sp/mp - new ai tacticles /physics/weapon settings/huds/fx, adds full multi-position mp vehicles, mp weapon/vehicle flashlights, fp guided projectiles, playerview bloodsplashes, mp model specific lipsynced pain/voice taunts, view frag leader/teambase with salute etc emotes at the end of mp games, 3 mp gametypes - reactor!lastman standing!invisibility, mp sfx - groundshakes!nightmare etc sp ai hearing, and much more and tweaks. no models or maps, just cyber q4 fragfest download/full info
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 9:36am Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	For anyone interested in the NEOTOKYO mod, I suggest you get it via torrent. 638 seeder(s), 184 leecher(s) = 822 peer(s) total Over 400 more seeds than leechers = awesome for anyone wanting it sooner, it seems the majority of people will have taken up most of the direct download servers. hehe. But by tomorrow, it shouldn't really matter which you choose. --
Orion The Chosen One	Jul 4 2009, 11:11am Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	I let the download run over night via the moddb mirror... There weren't many seeders for the torrent last night... anyway, I'm yet to try the game. I might actually get around to it after dinner... Well, I hope so anyway! lol. -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
Sticky I'm pretty awesome.	Jul 4 2009, 11:44am Anchor
Sticky I'm pretty awesome.	Lucifer wrote: Assaultman67 wrote: Lucifer wrote: Sticky wrote: backhands you Back into line, slave. backhands you in return Its not Sunday. runs across the bar and breaks a pool cue over Lucifer's heads and then uses a bar stool to hit sticky "TeeHee ... ive always wanted to do that" Sets a million tentacles on Assaultman I've got the camera. We'll go 50-50 on tentacle porn video sales. -- Hey, you! Yeah, you reading this! Do you liek forumz? Join the ModDB Forum Junkies Group and show off your forum love! Did you happen to enjoy reading my reviews? Ha ha, just joking, nobody read my reviews. Regardless, check out my (rarely updated at all) blog, The Honest Gamer.
Toyoka What's that all aboot, eh?	Jul 4 2009, 11:45am Anchor
Toyoka What's that all aboot, eh?	The price... it will sky-rocket. -- ~Toyoka's Gaming Channel~
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 1:13pm Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	orion2sirius wrote:I let the download run over night via the moddb mirror... There weren't many seeders for the torrent last night... anyway, I'm yet to try the game. I might actually get around to it after dinner... Well, I hope so anyway! lol. I got a nice 350-450kbps last night/morning around 2am UK time. --
Orion The Chosen One	Jul 4 2009, 1:17pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	Geez Nice! lol... I was stuck with 40-50kbps for whatever reason. I usually get around 250-350kbps on most downloads. And yea, I think I was actually downloading around that same UK time. Meh, Maybe my ISP was having one of its go-slow periods? lol. -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
ngs616	Jul 4 2009, 4:01pm Anchor
ngs616	I downloaded it earlier today from moddb, it was running at max speed. I installed it but havent gotten around to playing it.
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 4:13pm Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Well, I was lucky, the direct download was just release a few minutes after I discovered the torrent was released, I paused the torrent and started a directdownload which was only peaking 70, at this moment the torrent was peaking 120. I cancelled the direct download and started up the torrent and whey! It shot up to 300 and even went onto around 450. Not that it made much of a difference anyway. I didn't play it till 1pm as I kinda needed to sleep. --
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	Jul 4 2009, 4:51pm Anchor
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	My internet is very terrible, it downloads at only 26kb/s. -- Can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep? The night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16. What's this rash that comes and goes can you tell me what it means? God help me, I was only 19.
Orion The Chosen One	Jul 4 2009, 5:33pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	I still haven't played it either tbh. I might give it a shot tho after my pizza arrives. -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
Jimi Not Jackie Chan	Jul 4 2009, 6:09pm Anchor
Jimi Not Jackie Chan	So, if I take my table fan away, since someone else needs it.. my motherboard temperature raises over 45 celsius. Some PC Probe program had a motherboard temp warning at 45 celsius, which was the minimum/default setting in the program. So I raised it to 60, same as CPU temperature warning level. Is this ok? My CPU is at some 30 celsius. These levels are when I'm not doing anything with the computer or just browsing the internet. -- Quote:How about I give you the phonecall and you give me my finger!
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 7:01pm Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	That depends on the age of the hardware, whereas something from 2 or 3 years ago can survive, if its older then you're risking it. If it is recent then it should be okay. --
ngs616	Jul 4 2009, 7:45pm Anchor
ngs616	How do they even measure the temperature of your motherboard? My motherboard is multiple temperatures. (in different spots of course) Edited by: ngs616
Jimi Not Jackie Chan	Jul 4 2009, 8:10pm Anchor
Jimi Not Jackie Chan	It's some 1 and half year old... The temprature has stabilized to 50 celsius now after 2 hours without the table fan, that's about 15 degrees more than the temperature with the table fan. CPU seems to stay the same with or without the table fan... No idea how/where the motherboard temperature comes... Edited by: Jimi
Lucifer Peasant Elite	Jul 4 2009, 8:36pm Anchor
Lucifer Peasant Elite	ngs616 wrote:How do they even measure the temperature of your motherboard? My motherboard is multiple temperatures. (in different spots of course) You find the mean. --
Orion The Chosen One	Jul 4 2009, 8:51pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	Lucifer wrote: ngs616 wrote:How do they even measure the temperature of your motherboard? My motherboard is multiple temperatures. (in different spots of course) You find the mean. huh? -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	Jul 4 2009, 9:25pm Anchor
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	Mean = adding all sample data together and dividing the answer by the amount of sample data added. In other words it is the average. -- Can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep? The night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16. What's this rash that comes and goes can you tell me what it means? God help me, I was only 19.
Orion The Chosen One	Jul 4 2009, 9:29pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	Ah I see.... Damn you educated people! (they never taught this kinda stuff in my school dayz... Geez me'sa getting old!) -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	Jul 4 2009, 9:40pm Anchor
Handgun_Hero Vietnam \| Glory Obscured Beta Tester	Welcome to Australian maths. They shove nothing but algebra and analysing sample data. They teach you nothing new, only just repeating that. Worst of all neither of these will really help you at all later on. -- Can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep? The night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16. What's this rash that comes and goes can you tell me what it means? God help me, I was only 19.
Sticky I'm pretty awesome.	Jul 4 2009, 10:05pm Anchor
Sticky I'm pretty awesome.	Remember. 90% of all things you learn in school you will never use. -- Hey, you! Yeah, you reading this! Do you liek forumz? Join the ModDB Forum Junkies Group and show off your forum love! Did you happen to enjoy reading my reviews? Ha ha, just joking, nobody read my reviews. Regardless, check out my (rarely updated at all) blog, The Honest Gamer.
O N L I N E Jyffeh I am arch jailbird scowl.	Jul 4 2009, 10:29pm Anchor
O N L I N E Jyffeh I am arch jailbird scowl.	Sticky wrote:Implying you learn things in high school. Oh you. -- Yak.RUS wrote:We had a girl in my school that took LCD and now she thinks shes a balloon for the rest of her life.