cut outs

[Gavin1985]

hello, my wife as been playing diablo 3 the specs on of her pc can hardly it easy. but for some reason her pc cuts out n restarts around 30mins to a hour.

been told its overheatin n pc's these days cut out to protect thereselfs. we downloaded core temp and both of her cores seem alot hotter then my cores on my pc( there doubling there heat over my cores) but we have noties there is no fan under her psu could it be that? we did just change her processor fan to so maybe something to do with the paste?

 

(sorry for my spellin lol)

 

 

/thnx

[KenB]

Hi Gavin

 

Download speccy from here: (the free version)

http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download

Run it when playing the games and post the temperatures here.

 

there is no fan under her psu

There is usually an exhaust fan on the PSU - strange if it doesn't have one at all.

 

we did just change her processor fan

Why was this necessary?

It could be due to this - the temps will tell us.

[Gavin1985]

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1002/1111it.png

 

this was after a few mins playin diablo 3

[KenB]

Hi

The m/board temp looks high.

(Mine is 43 C at the moment - not playing games though)

 

Try taking the side panel off ( if a desktop ) and run speccy again.

Let me know the temps now.

[Gavin1985]

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/5900/32067273.png

 

 

 

this is with the side of

[KenB]

That has taken the HDD and Graphics down a bit - but the CPU & m/board are still high.

 

You say you changed the processor fan - why was this ?

 

The thermal paste should have been removed ( rubbing alcohol ) from the surfaces before applying a very thin layer.

Was this done?

[Gavin1985]

i only took the fan of as a blade on it had snaped abit and was makin sounds. doesnt the paste go under the metal thing u screw the processor fan on to?

[Plastic Nev]

Hi if by metal thing, you mean the heat sink, then if that has been removed, it should be cleaned and new paste applied before fitting it back.

If you have or even haven't disturbed it, it is still a good idea to replace the thermal compound anyway. I would certainly be doing it if I was having such high temperature issues as your are.

There are many tutorial video's on how best to clean off the old paste and replace it with new paste, this guy shows a good way to do it.

 

 

Though you will see there are many other video's in the right hand listing on the Youtube page.

 

Nev.