Topic: Advice Please

[Robotochan]

MY 2000XP runs at roughly 50 - 60 degrees, is this too much?
I want to cool it down and make it quieter any ideas of an affordable fan and heatsink that will work on an Asrock K7VT2?

[Adept]

I expect Bat could get it down to 30 degrees for you Robotochan, but I think that 50-60 deg. is well within the recommended operating temperature for a 2000XP

[Robotochan]

I was looking at the Ebuyer reviews for fans and peeps had 2100XPs at 20 - 25 degrees. I was very suprised since my PC acts as a heater - I sit next to my radiator so I've turned it off  

[Sandra]

My pcs been running for about 6 hours,although only surfing,and its showing the CPU as 50 C.
Thats on a XP 2100+ so we dont seem miles apart  

[Robotochan]

If I kept my PC on for 24 hours using SETI@home I could cook my sunday dinner on my mobo  

[Robotochan]

Just looked at Mobo Monitor said my CPU was 80 degrees! Got worried as it slowly rose, then it got to 89 and my PC shut down. Went into BIOS after about 5 mins with my case open and it said 70 for the CPU and 50 for the system!

[Sandra]

Which and how many programs have you been running and for how long to get it so high  

[Adept]

Is the CPU fan actually spinning Robotochan?

[Robotochan]

Well my fan is running at just under 5000RPM
my PC was on for ages running music most of the time aand SETI@home all the time. Trying to catch up with Big_boss's lead of 32   I've turned of my radiator and opened my window for the time being. I'm hoping when I upgrade my PC that I will get a super cool heatsink and fan and some of that artic stuff  

[Sandra]

Sounds like the little green men have homed in on your PC for helping to spy on them and are aiming their cpu heating up ray guns at your PC  
Looks like your only hope is to turn the SETI prog off before they fry it and possibly you  


       :kid2: :mg:  

[Adept]

I run seti@home too Robotochan. I'm a member of The Register's team.

You can see my total here. I'm no. 39

[Robotochan]

WOW Nice!, Big_Boss and I are in Scotland's SETI http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Scotland%27s%20SETI

Well I have some good news for peeps living in Dunfermline, if there is any apart from Boss and I. One of the PC shops are opening again! The place where I got this one hehe  

[Clive]

Very impressive Adept.    Wouldn't it be scary if we found aliens really do exist out there?

[Robotochan]

I wouldn't doubt that some of the peeps on SETI@home are aliens! The technology to do over 500 years of processing in 3 years is amazing!

[Adept]

Do you actually run the screensaver Robotochan? If you run the commandline version of Seti you can complete units much faster.

I also run SetiSpy which allows full control of the commandline client and SetiQueue which caches multiple seti work units so that, when the seti project is down (which it frequently is ) you can carry on processing using WUs from your cache. The results are stored until Seti comes back online.