Re: P4R800-V Deluxe - CPU Overheating

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:35:11 GMT, Milos Pedersen III <Me@xxxxxx> wrote:

>The Intel 2.8Gig CPU on my P4R800-V Deluxe has been seriously
>overheating of late. It actually got to 82°C and spent about a
>week radomly shuting down before I twigged that it was an
>overheating issue. I immediately cleaned the inside of the
>case and the extra case fans. I have been able to drop the CPU
>temp to between 72°C and 76°C depending on load (monitoring

<snip>

Way too hot.

I run an Intel P4 2.8 GHz chip on an Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard. It is overclocked 10%, runs 2 gig of
memory, has 3 hard drives and a DVD drive, SCSI card, extra network card, capture card, SB Audigy sound card
and a 400W PSU. The case it is in makes things a tight squeeze (an old Aopen desktop case). There is an
extra cooling fan at the front of the case and a "sideways" cooling fan next to the gfx card that extracts
heat via an expansion slot.

I run the standard Intel heatsink but removed the Intel supplied thermal pad and used Arctic Silver 5.

That computer has been running all day today capturing video and the CPU temp is 32 C, M/B temp is 33 C.
Ambient room temperature here is a little cool at 17 C. Even in summer the CPU temp rarely exceeds 42 C.

I would suggest that you might have a bit of grit on top of the CPU. This would prevent the heatsink making
effective contact with the CPU housing. I would suggest you remove the heatsink, clean off any thermal
pad/thermal compound there and use some Arctic Silver. Follow the instructions at:-

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

And all will be well. ;-)


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