Thursday, Feb 14, 2008
Several times ago I moved to a new place. Here my room is smaller than the one in my old place, so I have to put my PC in the 2nd floor living room. And I thought that made a significant difference.
Previously my PC is inside the room, which is equipped with an AC. Therefore, I can affect my PC's temperature by manipulating the AC. But now, with it's moved to the living room, which there is no AC there, I feel that my PC overheats fast. My city is a well-hot one, you know.
Once I ever played Just Cause ,Company of Heroes, and followed by Stranglehold (graphics setting: the most max) for about 5 hours nonstop and nothing happened. But now I played Call of Duty 4 and World in Conflict (graphics setting: medium) and for both games it sends the overheat warning just in the first 20 minutes. Do you have any suggestions for how to cool my PC down? Maybe buying some extra fans? Or special game cooler?
Oh yeah, my VGA is Radeon X1900XT (it's an old model yeah but I have faith on it, it's still trustworthy after all) and I got 2 fans in the CPU.
Previously my PC is inside the room, which is equipped with an AC. Therefore, I can affect my PC's temperature by manipulating the AC. But now, with it's moved to the living room, which there is no AC there, I feel that my PC overheats fast. My city is a well-hot one, you know.
Once I ever played Just Cause ,Company of Heroes, and followed by Stranglehold (graphics setting: the most max) for about 5 hours nonstop and nothing happened. But now I played Call of Duty 4 and World in Conflict (graphics setting: medium) and for both games it sends the overheat warning just in the first 20 minutes. Do you have any suggestions for how to cool my PC down? Maybe buying some extra fans? Or special game cooler?
Oh yeah, my VGA is Radeon X1900XT (it's an old model yeah but I have faith on it, it's still trustworthy after all) and I got 2 fans in the CPU.
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Posted Feb 16, 2008 8:19 am PT
Thanks sharpsh0t! Your 1st advice is interesting. But where can I get an air compressor
? But gratitudes anyway, I'll try it out!
? But gratitudes anyway, I'll try it out!
Posted Feb 16, 2008 8:57 pm PT
Sorry, I'm not really good at trying to figure out how to make sure a computer doesn't overheat. But, when it's the summer here, I use a fan to cool down my computer. My house's AC stopped working about 2 years ago and my family uses Fans to keep cool during the summer.
Posted Feb 16, 2008 10:56 pm PT
sounds bad... my internet connection is like that, it stops working after about 10 min of use. ( i don't know why) also, i didn't know that you had WiC, What is name on it (pm me)
Posted Feb 17, 2008 3:21 pm PT
well some people have air compressors that they use for their car tires, or footballs/basketballs etc. Then there are also air/water compressors some people use to powerwash. And also the cheapest and maybe the easiest is to go to staples and buy one of those cans. They go for a few dollars. Usually you use them to blow out junk from under your keyboard and other nifty things. My dad has a compressor for his car, so i just borrow his every few months to use it.
Posted Feb 17, 2008 8:49 pm PT
where exactly is it overheating? if its the cpu u should check if the Thermal grease is still on the chip. if its the grafics card then i really dont have a good solution. if its ram then there are cooling devices for them too. btw are u sure that u didn't overclock anything? my ram overheated coz of that ^^ . but a cheap solution would be a big fan that stands next to pc and blows air into it. an expensive solution would be a water cooling system in connection with a huge radiator.....hope i could help u a bit 
Posted Feb 21, 2008 8:35 am PT
Well I think it's either the processor or the GPU but most likely the one mentioned last. I don't think I've overclocked anything, I'm still not daring enough to do that 
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I've tried to put a fan, yes, and I've even opened the casing while the fan blows, but it only affects a bit, sadly
. For example, it only lengthened the time for about 5-10 minutes. Maybe I'll try the water-cooling, can you estimate how much is it, o0kami? I'll have to compare with sharpsh0t's air compressor.
.I've tried to put a fan, yes, and I've even opened the casing while the fan blows, but it only affects a bit, sadly
. For example, it only lengthened the time for about 5-10 minutes. Maybe I'll try the water-cooling, can you estimate how much is it, o0kami? I'll have to compare with sharpsh0t's air compressor.
Posted Feb 22, 2008 6:53 pm PT
My one is ATI Radeon 9300.
Posted Mar 4, 2008 10:25 am PT
And does it heat?
Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:17 am PT
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Another suggestion that may help due the trick is to just switch out the older fans and replace them, like anything else the fans do wear down after a bit. And the third option is to always add another fan, but i don't care to do that cause then maybe too much energy is getting pumped into the machine/don't know where to put the dang thing cause there isnt much room in my comp anyways. Hope that helps in some way ^_^