foodmaniac

I honestly have no idea how, but I replaced the thermal paste on my CPU, and the overheating issue suddenly become worse. Stressing FPU now shows CPU Throttling of 2% (which is apparently an indicator that my computer is overheating), and the CPU core temperatures increased to 70 degrees idle @_@

Hmm... My computer already has a rear exhaust fan. I opened up my computer about a week ago and cleaned it out (it was absolutely filthy in there D:). There seemed to be a lot of loose cables running around, which might mean that the chassis is too crowded. I haven't cleaned the heatsink yet as I'm scared that if I take it out, I might destroy the computer's CPU completely.... However, I will look into those solutions. Cheers

Well, my computer just crashed again, although I did check it about 10 minutes before it crashed. The temperature was stabilizing at around 70 degrees. I think that's a bad thing.

Hi everyone, I just recently heard of AIDA64, and so I decided to give it a shot at trying to diagnose what's wrong with my computer. Basically, every now and again, my computer crashes and resets. It basically shuts everything down and beeps like it would as if I pressed the reset button on my computer. This becomes very irritating for me when I'm trying to download something or play games (mostly the latter, as it crashes more frequently when I put stress on the computer) When I first tried this software's stability test, my computer crashed after about 2 minutes, but in a different way. The screen froze and my speakers would repeat and annoying spitting sound (kind of like a rapper). I decided to try it again, and it hasn't crashed on me yet, although I've only been using it for 20 minutes (which is already better than 2). I've been going through this forum, and some of the things I've read are the following: 1) If your computer crashes during the stability test, then it's probably a hardware malfunction 2) Your CPU shouldn't be operating at higher than 70 degrees. I took a screenshot of my tests: http://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/foodmaniac/?action=view¤t=AIDA1.png http://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/foodmaniac/?action=view¤t=AIDA2.png http://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/foodmaniac/?action=view¤t=AIDA3.png http://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/foodmaniac/?action=view¤t=AIDA4.png Note that at 2:43:14 is when I decided to tick stress on all the options. Previously, I had only ticked FPU to see if the CPU throttle would increase. Also, I have read that you should try the stability test for a full 12 hours, which I will do after this post. I will post up the new results when it's done. If anyone can tell me what is wrong with my computer, and how I can best fix the issue, then that would be greatly appreciated I know that part of the issue is obviously overheating, but it is difficult for me to come up with a viable and cheap solution, as I don't have much experience with computer hardware. What effective solutions are there to computers overheating?