Mm, I didn't even bother trying to put it a 200mhz, because I noticed my pc was running real hot at 166mhz while playing an averagely taxing game. During the game I was constantly at 68-70°C, which is dangerously high (apparently, did some checking on the net). So I went back to 133 mhz. So either my CPU was built for 133 anyway or I need a better fan...one thing's certain though, i'm buying a grade-A fan for my next machine. I want the CPU to freeze rather than swelt.

I'm hoping 133mhz will give me max temps of around 60° C...should be the edge of what's considered safe. Could be that I've been fooled by a bunch of easily-scared internet dudes tho, so waddayathink, 60-70° dangerous? I general.


Btw, thanks for all the input so far

60-70 celsius? Hell yea that's dangerous. My machine at home runs around 90-100 fahrenheit, which according to google is....32-38 celsius. So, yea, you're not doing too well. Your CPU cooler/thermal paste must suck ass. May I suggest...


...buy some and a . Otherwise you may be causing harm to your CPU. How's the rest of your system temperature? Do you have case fans?

I now changed back to 100mhz...cos I was still hitting the 60-63's while gaming in 133mhz. Man, you're right, my cooling equipment must suck enormous ass.

Thing is, when I went into my BIOS to change the mhz frequency again after seeing my CPU temp at 52 or something on the Asus monitoring tool; I was that BIOS gave 37° C for CPU heat...who would you be more inclined to believe, BIOS or sensor-reading software from the manufacturer? I guess the former, in that case I might not be in too deep shit if I don't tune stuff up too much.

Erh, other temps, let's see...mobo 35°C at rest. I think it's been around that all the time, even when I was gaming at 166mhz. No, I don't have no chassis fans. Only fans I have is the CPU and power supply ones.

I suppose I'll check out your tips...But I'm afraid I can't afford anything right now, down to 100 bucks for the rest of the month. Guess I'll keep gaming at an absolute minimum, heh.


P.S. what are these voltage readings about (12v, 5, 3.3)? Just wondering.

EDIT: I also checked my HD temp through a program called speedfan, it gave me a 48° C as temperature. It read my CPU and mobo heat the same as the asus tool, though. But I'm suspicious of the mobo ALWAYS being 35°C. On the bright side, I got one of them CPU overheat protection thing so chances of me frying anything all at once aren't too great. It's been ages since I had an autoboot/shutdown. *touches wood*

yea, if you have no case fans at all, take the side off. Better than what you have now. You can watch the BIOS temperature to be sure, if you want.

I checked BIOS a bit ago for temp and it gave me something that went back and forth between 32° and 46-48°. Like really from one end to the other and back, not very funny stuff.

I think something's already a goner, tbh. Since the windows explorer keeping on loading problem windows takes twice as long to load, maybe even thrice. It sucks, but I guess i knew it was coming so I can almost have a laugh over it (almost ). And I get choppy performance with my mouse, sounds, video...general slowness really.

I guess it's one of the big three: mobo, CPU or HD. I wager the latter, but meh. I'll defrag sometime and see what it does.

EDIT: wow, taking of the panel is a difference of 10° C! jesus christ...why do PC's even have panels?

Keeping the thread alive, minor question:


could my sucky use of IDE cables (ie putting several pieces of hardware on a cable that aren't supposed to go together) cause things such as

-slow-ass startup
-choppy performance
-very slow writing to disk

?


Or should I look elsewhere for frytastic things? Just that all my problems started shortly after I took out the old HD and reorganized things down there. (no, not there, I meant in the case)

Hehehe, no thanks, that won't be necessary. I'm getting paid in a week's time so I should be good for a little pc-shopping. I want to be ready for Oblivion, and I think something's gone awfully wrong on this one.

I'd like to have the new one before I start messing this one up though.