Cooling!

My pc overheated tonight as i was downloading and on farcry, my psu was on full and it was very loud due to psu/fans etc on full.

I have a heatsink on my cpu, and a fan on the side of my case on the cpu/heatsink. i'm buying a soundcard this week to, i want a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic for gaming, aswell as my current setup so i want to make sure my system is going to be cool enough for my current upgrades and summer.

My setup at the moment is:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice @ 2.41Ghz (267*9)
XFX Geforce 7800GTX 256mb
2 x 512MB Samsung pc3200 DDR 400mhz RAM @ ddr333 4x HTT
200GB SATA 150 Maxtor 8MB Cache Hard Drive
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SKT 939 NVIDIA® nForce4 Ultra M/B
Hiper Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Blue

how do you guys keep your pc cool? especially with summer coming up!

 

I'v installed a few case fans

 

http://www.canadacomputers.com/ProductImages/004769/363.jpg

This is how I keep my system cool. Works like a charm!

 

If your PC shut down from heat your Way too Hot. ( it's not summer yet, you'll be in deep do do then)
OCing makes heat, ya might have to back off a bit.
IMO over 50c is too Hot.

Your PSU is controlling your fans?? Bad idea, usually thermally controlled fans bad, manual speed control is Best
Better off using fan bus.

OCing usually requires aftermarket cooling, for your CPU get your self a Thermalright XP-90 HS $27.95 The Best Bang for your Buck:
http://jab-tech.com/Thermalright-XP-90-OEM-pr-2921.html
or XP-120
Case airflow very important add some case fans, or upgrade the ones you have to some that push more CFM

 

no sorry my psu is not controlling my fans, it controls itself, as in it goes off how hot it is.

And it was very loud so im guesing it was at full charge! or my psu was? hmm lol

Anyways in farycry it just stopped! though when i press ctrl+alt+del it went baxck to desktop (after bout 10 secnds)

 

Over 35c is hot for me.

I have Akasa silent case fans, plus a Zalman CPU cooler with a 120mm fan, don't ask which one cos I don't know.

Will post pics tomorrow.

 

Increasing the number of fans and after market heatsink are very effective, as above, but also cleaning the case out from time to time and refreshing your thermal paste, can make 5-6C difference. Does you Video Card have sufficient cooling as they can produce significant system environment heat affecting mobo, CPU, etc, especially during gaming.

Look this is a bit "ghetto" but it is a Vid Card cooling mod for ~$5 US and lowers his card temp by 10C which preserves other hardware. So if you don't mind a coarse looking but potentilly very effective cooling strategy try it out. Most new cards come out with fan cooling and exhaust for GPU but this does it for card RAM.

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=271

 

check and see if your fan on the psu is up to speed,from what i get out of this post is that the fan on the psu stopped,maybe that is the only problem.