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My rommies P3 lately seems to be running hot. I pulled it out checked the AS cleaned it up applied some more arctic silver and put it back in but it didn't change the temps any...Before it would run 26-28C unloaded and about 34-36 running folding. Here lately this SOB is hitting 48C under a load. The HSF has always been a GORB and its working fine still. I just don't get it. House temp is always the normal about 70-75 degree's? This comptuer has been having a problem locking up here the last month, will do it randomly at any given time. I'm just wondering if this CPU is going tits up on him. Its a P3 500e@733 1.8v's FC-PGA on a slotket. Always has ran at this speed just fine and it puzzles me why it would pitch a bitch now...

Those temps are definatly on the warm side. I get concerned when my temps make it to 40. I think it is pretty safe to assume the temp of 48 is causing the lock ups. Why it is doing it all of a sudden I don't know

Well I don't think 48 is all that bad. What is that like around 110 F? That's not that hot. Now if you were running 130 or 140 F, then that would be kinda hot. CPU is capable of running much hotter than that. Most monitoring of CPU temps display on the low side anyway. Most are running hotter than people think.

For a P3 48c is pretty high. It keeps locking up and acting goofy and i think it has to do with the heat myself. This chip always has ran at about 36c until recently and nothing i do gets teh temp back down. Most P3's i've seen run about mid to high 30's at the most unless they have shitty cooling on them.

pop the case and aim a room fan at it for a while... does it still lock up? if so, its a heat problem.

maybe the fan on the orb isnt spinning as fast as it should?

maybe the psu fan is exhausting in instead of out, or not exhausting at all?

any extra case fans? are they all working? fans at the front should be exhausting in, fans at the back should be exhausting out.

maybe you could lower the voltage a tinge?

PSU exhausts 80mm in the front is intake i took the side off put a 16 inch fan right next to it dropped it a couple degree's but still locked up. The Gorb fan is spinning at 5000 rpm's and moves a lot of air. Clocked the POS back down to 550 at stock volts and it still locked ran at about 40C. I think some hardware on it myself is having problems what i don't know. Trying to talk him into just letting me upgrade his comp to a T-bird still working on that.