Overheating or No power?
GnomeWizardd
Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
so i am trying to figure out why my bro's pc is crashing I swear its the fact he is running a 400 watt Ultra PSU but it could be over heating
its running at around 140* F so thats a little un nerving but we are in south Fl so ive had hotter
But this is the PC
3800+ AMD AM2 Dual core
2Gb ddr2 800 Geil ram
Zalman CNP 9500 Huge cooler
Lian Li case
I am going nuts with him bugging me
its running at around 140* F so thats a little un nerving but we are in south Fl so ive had hotter
But this is the PC
3800+ AMD AM2 Dual core
2Gb ddr2 800 Geil ram
Zalman CNP 9500 Huge cooler
Lian Li case
I am going nuts with him bugging me
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60 is pretty high for a dual core AMD. It might be more instructive if we knew what the normal CPU temp for that computer is. If that computer isn't overclocked and isn't running high-powered graphics, a quality 400 watt PSU should be OK. I don't know anything about "Ultra."
Have your brother run some voltage monitoring. It would be good to see what the voltages are.
//EDIT: ULTRA is junk.
NO CRASHES, At my apartment, But at his house it crashes all the time, My guess is dirty power then i found out he doesnt have a Batt backup! I was like NO WONDER his room is wired like crap So we are gong to get one tonight ( good thing they are moving tonight to thier new house )
So i think I figured it out But maybe i am wrong ( i still feel a new PSU would be needed tho )
It's also possible that the location for his computer in his room has poor ventilation, such as under a desk in a corner, in an upstairs room. (that's about as bad as it gets unless that corner happens to have baseboard heating! I've got a couple computers in such a location. I had to turn off heating for that room and cover the baseboard radiator with a quilt)