Methinks CPU is overheating...

[marcoco]

I've got my first homebrew pc built and running.
All seems fine except that some of the parts seem to warm up pretty fast. If I run the PC for 10 mins, the CPU temperature gets to almost 62c, and some of the resistors near the CPU are warm to touch, and the graphics card too.

I'm running a 1ghz tbird not overclocked, in a KA266-R, with a Volcano II hsink & Fan attached. I'm using the thermal pad that was attached to the heatsink and attached the fan a few times before being happy with it. Would using Thermal grease make that much of a difference? Am I grounding something? Is 62c not as bad as I think it is? (I dont even have the case on yet, so it will get warmer)

Any ideas on what might be causing this to be so hot? or how I should deal with it?

 

[Sparkles]

Thankfully I solved my problem, I have an ASUS CUV4x, and there's no other way around it, the on-board therm was wrong, considering my processor was cool to the touch, there's is no way on earth it was running at 75c.

As for your problem, 62c isn't THAT bad, espically for an AMD processor, which generally run a deal hotter than P3's if I am correct, espically if it dosen't have thermal paste, and it does make a difference.

As for your graphics card, those suckers get hot, I can seriously burn my hand on my Geforce 2 GTS if I lay my hand on the back area where the GPU resides for a period of time during a Tribes 2 game, and that's with a heatsink/fan combo on the GPU and a room fan blowing on the card.

 

[Passions]

is there any signs of it actually overheating? random freezes, reboots, errors, etc? otherwise, it seems fine. temp reading are not always accurate.

 

[marcoco]

I dont get re-boots, or lock-ups. Im just worried that it's going to get hotter and hotter. I guess my next project is going to have to be case mods. Like adding a couple of fans to the case siding, and possibly to the PS case (is drilling holes in the PS case dangerous?)

 

[rUbY0rEd]

so whats a good and accurate temp reading program?