CPU Overload

[cupic]

Hi Guys/Girls

have a problem that I hope you can help me with.
When I'm @ 90-100% of CPU the computers alarm kicks in @ 60C and tell me its overheating.
Motherboard temp 31c
CPU temp 44C
HDD1 30C
HDD2 32C these figures are at CPU usage of 10%

when ripping these figures goes to
Motherboard 33C
CPU hovering at 62C
HDD1 and HDD2 @ 35C,also temp goes up when trying to do a disc clean.

Ive clean most to the dust gathering around the fan @ cpu fan @ video card and fan @ the pwr supply.

Could this be that the thermal paste is dried up or do I need another fan.

Its a P4 Motherboards a Gigabyte GA-8S651M-Rz(C) Chipset a SIS 651 and 1gb Ram with 2 HDD one 60gb other 160gb.
Also can this motherboard handle more than what the alarm tell me.

Thanks in advance

cheers

[BeStRaFe]

if its intel - 85 deg safe
if its amd - 70 deg safe

check for dust...
the thermal paste on your heatsink may have dried up
powersuply might be overheating, or case fans may be screwey

[cupic]

Originally Posted by BeStRaFe

if its intel - 85 deg safe
if its amd - 70 deg safe

check for dust...
the thermal paste on your heatsink may have dried up
powersuply might be overheating, or case fans may be screwey

Thanks for the advice
How can you turn off the sound alarm and it is a intel.Thought the Intel shutdown down @ 75C
cheers

[BeStRaFe]

go into bios

just bash F1 or the DELETE key @ startup

if its a gigabyte delete will do it...

and go into hardware monitor, power save theres like 5 different things it can be under...

just turn it all the way to 90

or go down to disk smith, spend 5$ on a tube of thermal paste and fix it!!

[S3SR]

i bought a big mutha heatsink and fan (asus silent square pro, even has a rpm control), makes 70degree CPU's run at 28 idle and 34 playing oblivion and thats overclocked 10%

looks like all you need is a better case and more fans, or revise the way everything is set out, cable tieing your power cables and IDE ribbons out of the way improves cooling.

if AMD dont cover the entire chip with thermal paste, only that bit in the middle
intel is the whole thing or might be the other way around????

you shouldnt have to set the warning to 90degrees because constantly at that temp you may as well throw it all out and upgrade, you will in a while

[cupic]

Thanks guys will increase to 70 and if still happen ill order a dell with Vista

[ON_DUBS]

heatsink won't be very effective if your case isn't properly ventilated.

do you have a case fan to vent the hot air?

is your case tidy or is it cluttered with loose cables?

is your machine close to a wall or somewhere that airflow out of the case is restricted?

[jonk]

Pull the cpu out, clean off the old heat grease with meths, then use ceramique 'arctic silver' heat grease only. When you pull off the cpu you'll notice it's brown - means it's had it. Don't use cheap heat grease, and it's better to use heatsink's that screw onto the board and not clamps that come standard with cpu cooler's.

And don't smother the back of the cpu with it either - one tube of ceramique's stuff will do 50 or more cpu's, you don't use much at all.