Some hardware (more!) advice.

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Bah, even after I bought my uber mega Antec PSU my CPU is running way too hot under minimal load. I've bought a better heatsink, better thermal compound and the thing still runs at a healthy (sarcasm) 64c, with the case open and the PSU no where near the case. Somebody lent me a working 3000+ chip to test with it, but it just beepcodes and powers off but it works in my friends machine. And there is only one Jumper/switch regarding clockspeed on my board and it is already set correctly. Reason i'm saying this now is because last night I was doing some fairly processor intensive work (audio editing processing effects etc, not the most but fairly intensive resampling 40 600mb audiofiles) and the temparature shot up to 75c and I switched the thing off because the edges of the screen started to wave about and flicker.

I might just go out and buy This board and a 3.2ghz P4. I'm gonna give the 3000+ another go, maybe I missed out a rudimentry step. But to me it looks like a new board and CPU is in order. Thankfully the board I might have to buy works with the rest of my hardware.
 
I'm starting to suspect that it may potentially be your mobo causing the overheating issue somehow or other...
 
You sure you're not feeding extremely hot air into the cpu? (where are you drawing your air from?)

Did you put your cpu fan on properly? (They're supposed to be intakes, so they blow INTO the heatsink, not out.
 
halfracedrift
You sure you're not feeding extremely hot air into the cpu? (where are you drawing your air from?)

Did you put your cpu fan on properly? (They're supposed to be intakes, so they blow INTO the heatsink, not out.
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I've done that before by accident, and it didn't make much of a difference (believe it or not).

As previously posted, check fan speeds and check power settings.
 
halfracedrift
You sure you're not feeding extremely hot air into the cpu? (where are you drawing your air from?)

Did you put your cpu fan on properly? (They're supposed to be intakes, so they blow INTO the heatsink, not out.
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The PC is sitting in the coldest room in the house with the panels off both sides of the case, also the PSU isn't even inside the case so I have no idea where hot air would be comming from. I've looked in the Bios, I have speedfan constantly running on the machine and the voltages look fine. The CPU fan varys from 1500 at startup/minimal load to like 2000.
 
do you have an external temperature probe? It could just be that your readings are borked... Or does your heat sink get super hot to the touch as well? At 51 degrees, mine is just warm to the touch...
 
See that's the thing, I can put my hand on it and it's warm. Even after I powered down from the 75 degrees incident I put my hand on it and it was warm verging on hot. You mean something other than the motherboard that measures the temparatures, no maybe if I can find one in a shop i'll buy one. Oddly all the rest of the temparature readings are fairly low around the 30 degree mark, barring my SATA HDD which seems to heat up to 44. The thing is with the case off there is a noticeable amount of heat comming off the machine, it practically heats the room up. I'll have to look for a temparature probe. But that still doesn't explain why the display started to wave about, barring that i've got a crappy old monitor but it's never done that before and it's od that it's happening when the temps go up on the pc.
 
The only thing it could be is fault tempurature probe on the mobo, waaay too much voltage in the BIOS, or the heatsink improperly placed on the CPU. Either that or a horribly, horribly crappy HSF.
 
I have tried 3 different heatsinks, i'm fed up of clearing the paste off the damn processor every time. Standard AMD Cooler, Coolermaster Aero 7+ (noisy massive thing) and the Thermaltake one i'm using now which is nice and quiet even with the case off. And yes they all do the same damn thing. All the voltages are running on defaults, because I didn't want to use the Aero 7 for OC'ing which was too damn noisy running at low speeds.

Hmmm, i'm using it now and it did the same rediculous temparature readings. But it still runs stable no crashing or restarting. Now i'm looking at some of the voltages, they are off the +5V seems to be at 3.30 something. I'm just wondering if it's just more than the temparature sensors.
 

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