My ATI X700 had a bad case of heatstroke

[GT182]

If you can Deep-6 try and upgrade to a better heatsink and fan combo for your CPU. That alonewill help alot to drop temps. Now this will sound dumb but... get a PCI fan and install it it under your graphix card. That will aslo help get ride of more heat. And also a fan for your HDD. Radio Shake has all 3 made by Thermaltake in some of their better stores. I did the above last month and it helped a great deal. I've got 11 fans in my case now. 4 filtered intakes and 7 exhaust. My Thermaltake v1000A case came with 7 plus 2 in the PSU. With the HDD fan and PCI fan that makes 11.

Now for the hard part..... make sure you have filtered intake fans. They'll keep the crud out which is what you want most of all. The crud and dust sucked into the case is what will make things heat up faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. Pardon the expression but it's true. Never ever, if you can help it, leave the sidecover open. That's only asking for trouble. And to the filters, add the dry dusting cloth cut to fit. I bought a box of Grime Boss Dusting Cloths that I found at Wal-Mart. Works better than the stock fan filters.

This is especally important for all of those that buy those store-bought computers. Check inside the case once a week to see how clean it is. If it looks dirty, take the time to clean it out, and do heatsink with canned air. The fan blades can be cleaned with canned air, but more than likely will need to be scrubbed with a Q-tip too.

Reason I say this is.... my son-in-law hadn't looked insde his computer case for 2 years. There was so much dust and crud in it that it was a wonder it didn't catch fire. It also ran slower than death warmed over until it was cleaned out. The cleaning alone took over 2 hours. LOL It runs better but the damage was already done.

[Deep-Six]

Originally Posted by GT182

If you can Deep-6 try and upgrade to a better heatsink and fan combo for your CPU. That alonewill help alot to drop temps. Now this will sound dumb but... get a PCI fan and install it it under your graphix card. That will aslo help get ride of more heat. And also a fan for your HDD. Radio Shake has all 3 made by Thermaltake in some of their better stores. I did the above last month and it helped a great deal. I've got 11 fans in my case now. 4 filtered intakes and 7 exhaust. My Thermaltake v1000A case came with 7 plus 2 in the PSU. With the HDD fan and PCI fan that makes 11.

Now for the hard part..... make sure you have filtered intake fans. They'll keep the crud out which is what you want most of all. The crud and dust sucked into the case is what will make things heat up faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. Pardon the expression but it's true. Never ever, if you can help it, leave the sidecover open. That's only asking for trouble. And to the filters, add the dry dusting cloth cut to fit. I bought a box of Grime Boss Dusting Cloths that I found at Wal-Mart. Works better than the stock fan filters.

This is especally important for all of those that buy those store-bought computers. Check inside the case once a week to see how clean it is. If it looks dirty, take the time to clean it out, and do heatsink with canned air. The fan blades can be cleaned with canned air, but more than likely will need to be scrubbed with a Q-tip too.

Reason I say this is.... my son-in-law hadn't looked insde his computer case for 2 years. There was so much dust and crud in it that it was a wonder it didn't catch fire. It also ran slower than death warmed over until it was cleaned out. The cleaning alone took over 2 hours. LOL It runs better but the damage was already done.

That is so true. I do have a filter on my intake fan. What I need to do now is buy a second intake fan where my HDD is. A yes, I have been thinking about buying fans for inside my case. Just have not gotten around to it yet. But will do so when I have the money to do it. (NEED A JOB).

[The Munster]

Originally Posted by GT182

If you can Deep-6 try and upgrade to a better heatsink and fan combo for your CPU. That alonewill help alot to drop temps. Now this will sound dumb but... get a PCI fan and install it it under your graphix card. That will aslo help get ride of more heat. And also a fan for your HDD. Radio Shake has all 3 made by Thermaltake in some of their better stores. I did the above last month and it helped a great deal. I've got 11 fans in my case now. 4 filtered intakes and 7 exhaust. My Thermaltake v1000A case came with 7 plus 2 in the PSU. With the HDD fan and PCI fan that makes 11.

Now for the hard part..... make sure you have filtered intake fans. They'll keep the crud out which is what you want most of all. The crud and dust sucked into the case is what will make things heat up faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. Pardon the expression but it's true. Never ever, if you can help it, leave the sidecover open. That's only asking for trouble. And to the filters, add the dry dusting cloth cut to fit. I bought a box of Grime Boss Dusting Cloths that I found at Wal-Mart. Works better than the stock fan filters.

This is especally important for all of those that buy those store-bought computers. Check inside the case once a week to see how clean it is. If it looks dirty, take the time to clean it out, and do heatsink with canned air. The fan blades can be cleaned with canned air, but more than likely will need to be scrubbed with a Q-tip too.

Reason I say this is.... my son-in-law hadn't looked insde his computer case for 2 years. There was so much dust and crud in it that it was a wonder it didn't catch fire. It also ran slower than death warmed over until it was cleaned out. The cleaning alone took over 2 hours. LOL It runs better but the damage was already done.

This information is invaluable to me as I have my Tower in close proximity to my Multi-fuel stove [unfortunately, my computer won't heat up the room] and I get coal dust all over the place; especially now as I'm feeding the stove like a Locomotive due to advancement of BBRRRRR Weather !
Thanks for the tips.

[oscar19681]

Oh i got the ati radeon 9800 pro and i get overheats from time to time as well . It happens with high end games . But most of the times in summertime and when i put the heater up in my room . I have 3 fans on the but still i have to play with the side of my pc off .

[Redwine]

My X800Xt PE is hot too, it is runing at idle just now at 50 degrees Celcius, and it rise to 65 only with the flash animation of subsim....

[3Jane]

With the copper version of both the Zalman CPU and AGP coolers, running a Sempron 3000+ with and ATI 9800 Pro. In a Thermaltake Tsunami case fitted with a 350 Watt PS and no extra fans apart fron the one on the AGP cooler. I get an idle temperature of (CPU) 35 - 35.50c and (AGP) of 32c. After running GW SHIII for a couple of hours it goes up to 37.50 - 38c. With the 'auto-overclocking' facility in the Omega drivers during the game.
Just the normal radiator central heating in the room, so it's not a cold place generaly. But anyway, Zalman coolers or a water cooling system are worth the investment especialy if you are clocking even moderately.
Just as an off topic mention, I found out this evening, at the start of my ninth patrol. That you can still use the 'free view', the eye thing, whilst the game is paused. It certaily might be interesting to use during attacks etc, but on the way out of St Nazaire I was able to pop up and get some still views of the Messerschmitts flying over, and of the seaguls

[Reece]

Hi Deepsix, I have an X700 AGP card & it weighs 1kg (no kidding) but it runs cool, I purchased 8 small (video card) copper heatsinks, come with adhesive thermal tape & cost around AU$15, I also placed a vantec iceberg cooling fan on the opposite side of the other fan (now has 2) since it had a nice flat piece of aluminium plate to mount to! Yes I'm a little paranoid about heat problems.
Also I have an AMD Athlon 64 processor & can vouch for a fact that the Vapochill (refrigerated) heatsink keeps the processor at around 28Deg C without giving off much heat at all, and it cost around AU$70 I previously had a radiator & pump setup, and this is better!!
Hope this is of some value to you!
Cheers.