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[infrared]

What cpu cooler have you stuck on it?

Damn the prescott for running so hot! With my new gigabyte cooler, it gets up to 58c @ 3.85 and 62c @ 4.2

 

[wtf8269]

Thermalright XP-90C with a 92mm Tornado. I also have 5 Thermaltake LED Smart Fans which each put out 72cfm. AMD 64s (or in this case Opterons) run very cooly though. The temperatures you are running are fine for your chip.

Anywho I ran for about 2hrs 45min and it was stable. I would have tested longer but I have a LAN party to go to tonight. I'll let you guys know if it crashes while I'm playing. Load never exceeded 38º with all of the fans full blast. Idle is around 21-23º with all of the fans running at about 6.5v.

 

[wtf8269]

Hmm so yeah my dad's system has been crashing a lot lately and I found what the problem is. He has a 74gb Raptor, 200gb SATA drive, 250gb IDE drive, and a DVD+/- RW drive, a 9800 Pro AIW, 2.8ghz Northwood, and 2gb of ram on a 330w Antec PSU with a whopping 17a on the 12v rail.

Anywho so I told him to get a 520w PowerStream so he ordered that. And it came in and he put it in and turns out the fan was blue. Apparently they changed to blue fans in the newer ones. So I talked him into letting me switch them since he doesn't give a rat's @$$ about colors and I wanted all blue instead of all blue and then a random green fan. So I'm a happy camper, and it should make my PC look a lot better.

 

[Solaris17]

soo wait did the psu fix it for him?

 

[djbbenn]

The powerstreams with the blue fan are the SLI ready versions.

-Dan

 

[wtf8269]

soo wait did the psu fix it for him?

Yes, absolutely.

Although I was talking to my dad last night and since I didn't put it in for him he's iffy about letting me have it. One of those "You didn't do [insert favor here] for me for one of the few times I ask you to do something, and you keep asking us for stuff" things that parents give you. Oh well. I'm half too lazy to rewire everything anyway. He said give it a week though and he'll see what he thinks.