I think my computer is going to explode!

[Teta_Bonita]

I was browsing some geek forums, when I noticed that some guy with an ati 9800 could run Oblivion way better than my Nvidia 6800 can. Naturally, this worked me up into a nerdy rage of pure geek envy. I think a few of my pimples grew bigger. Anyway, whenever I run Oblivion it runs slow and my comp fan sounds like an airplane. So today I whipped out speedfan, and lo and behold:

Fan3: 0 RPM
Temp3: 70C

:O

I don't even know what a "fan3" is. All I know is that I have two 80mm fans on the case and one CPU fan. This is bad, right? How do I find out what "fan3" and "temp3" mean? and how do I fix it?

 

[Icarusintel]

you, my friend, are f*cked, mostly because i don;t know what fan 3 is either

good luck!

do you have an Intel CPU?

 

[nutcrackr]

Don't think speedfan takes gpu temp does it? Looks like your cpu temp, but it's far too high for that D:. What CPU do you have?

 

[Icarusintel]

Don't think speedfan takes gpu temp does it? Looks like your cpu temp, but it's far too high for that D:. What CPU do you have?

If he has an Intel it might be the temp of it, I know my Intel runs hot even with the mac daddy fan I have on it.

 

[Teta_Bonita]

oops, forgot about my specs.
Athlon 64 3500+
GeForce 6800 vanilla
2 gigs of RAM
Gigabyte K8N Pro mobo

Nothing is overclocked, last I checked my cpu fan was working.

EDIT: since my system seems mostly stable (just a few minutes ago my comp crashed on bootup), maybe speed fan is just f*cking with me. Do you guys know of any other good temperature monitering programs?

 

[Asus]

Sensor 3 could be a few things. Could be your GPU, could be your CPU, it could be your Chipset on the motherboard OR it could just be a bogus reading.

The Chipset can run hot, its fine. As long as you dont see any artifacts on the screen, the GPU can also run that hot. The CPU is really the only one to worry about at that temp. And only for performance reasons. Example, Athlon's can go up to 85C but the board should shut them down before that.

Intel's will lower their clock speed when they over heat a bit and if it gets even hotter then it will shut down. AMD 64's shut down right away.

You can put your hand on the heatsink for each one and see if any are really warm. If the CPU heatsink is not warm then the heatsink is not doing it's job getting heat off the chip. Either it's dusty, the compound between the two is dry or the heatsink is not sitting flat on the chip.

Makes me wonder though since it says no RPM speed.

 

[DarkSin]

I use Motherboard Monitor. You can get it here http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download.asp?fid=7309&fileidx=1#

I have the same problem. MBM says my Athlon 2800+ is running at 62C(idle) but i'm not having any system instability. It could be affecting my performance though, but i'm not sure because my CPU has always been that hot according to my BIOS.

 

[staticprimer]

I had a graphics card that would run at 70C at load all the time... sometimes it would even reach 100, no joke. Still works too...

 

[Cole]

I just downloaded it and according to me it dosn't show your GPU temp.

My 7800GTX is at 52 degrees Celcius, and there is nothing on the program to match it, the highest being 40.

Also if you hit configure it may help you figure out where the temp is comin from.

I also like this program it tells me about my HD:
Your hard disk is a ST3250823AS with firmware 3.03.
The average temperature for this hard disk is 36C (MIN=26C MAX=48C) and yours is 42C.
The overall fitness for this drive is 96%.
The overall performance for this drive is 96%.

Thats my newer 250gig one...what amazes me is my old Maxtor one. This one came from an emachines and is much older than my newer one:
Your hard disk is a Maxtor 4R080J0 with firmware RAMB1TU0.
The average temperature for this hard disk is 36C (MIN=23C MAX=46C) and yours is 35C.
The overall fitness for this drive is 97%.
The overall performance for this drive is 97%.

 

[JFry]

Open your case and look for a fan that isn't spinning. That's prolly fan 3.