Cooling Questions

Hey all. Like the site.

I recently blew a 420-watt stock power supply and sadly it killed the motherboard and part of the hard drive. I had another hard drive, so that saved some cash.

I now have a new motherboard in, really new on the market but still runs AGP 8x video and LGA775 socket as my old one did.

I now have a 500-watt power supply by Antec as well. I'm really worried about cooling now, as I've already received a blue stop error from windows saying my CPU may be hot, and a BIOS POST warning about it too. I put the last bit of thermal goo on the CPU before installing it (its not a new CPU btw), hoping it would calm down the fans and stop the errors. But I just recently got another BIOS error saying there's an error with the internal temp.

At the moment, I installed .Net Framework 2.0 and my computer went from silent to really loud within a few minutes. My SpeedFan is showing temps of 84 HD, 97 Temp1, 128 Temp2, 122 Temp 3, although they're variable, they dont change a whole lot. I can only adjust speed 2 though, and it quiets it down as soon as I take it from 100% to 90%. But the temps shoot up.

I don't know why its running so hot. I have 6 80mm fans running in a mid tower case, two in the front plate, two exhausting the rear, one side plus the CPU fan itself. Also, all my cables are neatly cleared away from the CPU's position. Although, I was messing with which way the fans were facing.

My dad just spent a lot replacing the mainboard, and me, well, the PS was enough to get me broke. I don't want anymore phyiscal probs.

Any ideas for a better fan configuration or a cooling method? Specs:

Asus P5PVDI-X AGP/PCIE Proactive Mainboard
3.2 Intel P4 LGA
1.5GB RAM
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256, AGP 8x
No PCI cards.
160GB West Digital sata
500-w Power Supply
Floppy + DVDRW drives

 

Is your BIOS up to date?
Was the cpu & heatsink clean before you put a small amount of thermal paste on?
Have you tried taking the side of the case off and turning all the fans off except the HSF?
That should keep you busy for a few minutes...

 

What do you mean here? Have you reveresed them and thus inlet to outlet? What are your warning temps set at in your BIOS (PC Health)?

 

To reference your temp look at this guide:

http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm

You could look here under Case Cooling Topics or under anything to potentially improve your thermal management:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=154105