I love playing games, and i play often, I have changed a motherboard, which is a Foxconn, and put my old P4 CPU inside,and added and Intel CPU fan, and i'm 100% sure that everything is supported, and all the other hardware and Windows are sucessfully installed. I have found out a few problems though, my fan drops from 1950 RPM to 0 RPM suddenly and often, and then returns to normal in less than 2 seconds, but the temperature of my CPU is normal and doesn't seem to heat up, whats up with that and what should i do?
Secondly, while playing games, my CPU and GPU seems to be heating up, The CPU averages to 60 degrees Celcuis while gaming, and my 8800 GTS also is quite hot, is all this normal?
2007-03-14 20:05:10 · 2 answers · asked by chilam00900 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
i think that the SMART FAN control in your bios is enabled which slow down or shuts off the fan if your cpu is cool enough
2007-03-17 15:52:59 · answer #1 · answered by guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is only temporary, it might be a power saving feature that you have enabled on the motherboard.
I would not worry about it unless it starts to get really hot. I mean so hot that it burns you.
It is normal for the CPU and the GPU to heat up, but there are limits as to how hot they should be getting. Nvidia's driver software comes with a temperature sensor, keep an eye on that and don't let it get over say, 100 degrees celcius.
If you are running an 8800GTS on an old Pentium 4 processor, you really should upgrade to a faster CPU. Otherwise you are not getting the full performance that the 8800 series has to offer.
2007-03-14 20:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋