AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ Overheating

Hi,

I bought a new computer last month, and It seems like if he was
overheating. Games were crashing often, and more often after a crash. I
changed the fan for a Zalman last weekend and it didn't solve the
problem, but it helped. Now my CPU temperature is near 40 on idle, it
was near 50 before I installed the Zalman fan. Note, the Zalman fan is
at maximum speed. I loaded BIOS default because i though it was caused
by some settings that has been changed for my ram (DDR2 Voltage 1.95V)

Anyone got an idea why my cpu is overheating ?

Check the link for temperature/fan/voltage
'[img=http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2812/cputempti6.th.jpg]'
(http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cputempti6.jpg)

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english.
Guillaume

COMPUTER SPECS
AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (Brisbane)
Zalman CNPS9500 (1350-2600RPM 18-27.5DBA)
ASUS M2N-PLUS SLI
2 X 1024 DDR2 800 OCZ Platinium
1 X XFX Geforce 8600 GTS XXX (256 meg)
1 X 80GB WD SATA
1 X 250GB Seagate SATA


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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:58:24 +0530, herbstleyd wrote:

Hi,

I bought a new computer last month, and It seems like if he was
overheating. Games were crashing often, and more often after a crash. I
changed the fan for a Zalman last weekend and it didn't solve the
problem, but it helped. Now my CPU temperature is near 40 on idle, it
was near 50 before I installed the Zalman fan. Note, the Zalman fan is
at maximum speed. I loaded BIOS default because i though it was caused
by some settings that has been changed for my ram (DDR2 Voltage 1.95V)

Anyone got an idea why my cpu is overheating ?

Check the link for temperature/fan/voltage
'[img=http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2812/cputempti6.th.jpg]'
(http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cputempti6.jpg)

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english. Guillaume

COMPUTER SPECS
AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (Brisbane)
Zalman CNPS9500 (1350-2600RPM 18-27.5DBA) ASUS M2N-PLUS SLI
2 X 1024 DDR2 800 OCZ Platinium
1 X XFX Geforce 8600 GTS XXX (256 meg) 1 X 80GB WD SATA
1 X 250GB Seagate SATA

40 degrees sounds fine, what's the temperature under load?

I suspect your problem is with your RAM not the CPU. Try setting the RAM
speed to 667 in the BIOS.

My CPU can go up to 151(F) degrees and down to 120(F) degrees [stock CPU
fan blowing at 6K RPM] in a hot weather. So, I doubt temperatures are a
problem for you. Check the temperatures under load like the general said.

Check the video card too.


On 6/21/2007 6:28 PM PT, herbstleyd wrote:

Hi,

I bought a new computer last month, and It seems like if he was
overheating. Games were crashing often, and more often after a crash. I
changed the fan for a Zalman last weekend and it didn't solve the
problem, but it helped. Now my CPU temperature is near 40 on idle, it
was near 50 before I installed the Zalman fan. Note, the Zalman fan is
at maximum speed. I loaded BIOS default because i though it was caused
by some settings that has been changed for my ram (DDR2 Voltage 1.95V)

Anyone got an idea why my cpu is overheating ?

Check the link for temperature/fan/voltage
'[img=http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2812/cputempti6.th.jpg]'
(http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cputempti6.jpg)

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english.
Guillaume

COMPUTER SPECS
AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (Brisbane)
Zalman CNPS9500 (1350-2600RPM 18-27.5DBA)
ASUS M2N-PLUS SLI
2 X 1024 DDR2 800 OCZ Platinium
1 X XFX Geforce 8600 GTS XXX (256 meg)
1 X 80GB WD SATA
1 X 250GB Seagate SATA
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