Is my PC going to overheat?

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I picked up a new pc over Thanksgiving break, and about a week ago I started hearing a noise (I'm pretty sure it is the fan) whenever I am either a.) running a lot of applications (iTunes, FireFox, Excel, Magic Online, etc.), or b.) playing WoW, HL2, or CoD2. I installed Everest to check out my system's temperatures, and for GPU it looks like I'm sitting at around 56-57 degrees (celsius) when I'm not playing games, and around 61-63 while I am playing games (even saw a 64 tonight for a second). For motherboard temp it goes from about 38-40 degrees when I'm not playing games, up to about 45-47 when I'm playing games. I am running a P4 630 3ghz with 512 mb of ram, and I've got a Radeon X700 256mb as my graphics card. I'm not a computer expert, so I'm wondering if my computer is in danger of overheating. The noise I hear is pretty loud, but I'm not sure if that is because I'm just doing too much for my pc to handle, or if it is just a loud fan. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Hm... the fan seems to be automatically adjusting to the heat when you use a lot of RAM or strenuous video card use.

As of now, your PC doesn't seem to be in too bad shape. You can really crank the temperature pretty high. However, if you can actually notice the fan that vividly, things aren't looking good. It seems at this rate I think you should...

1) Install better cooling (more fans in PROPER POSITION [to allow more fluent cooling, there's tons of diagrams on good positioning out there] or, if you can afford it, liquid wouldn't hurt [except your wallet ;)])

2) Install more RAM xD 512 and you're trying to run COD2 and HL2? 1 GB MINIMUM for those games in my opinion. ;)
 
Might wanna think about more cooling fans and get RAM with heat speaders... they're a bit more but they run cooler.
 
If your computer is gonna over heat you will know. The most common way is the computer will shut itself down. When a computer overheats what commonly happens it the CPU speed is throttled down to lose some of the heat, if it goes beyond that then it just shuts down. You temperatures are looking fine so I wouldn't woory too much.
 
[quote name='dtarasev']If your computer is gonna over heat you will know. The most common way is the computer will shut itself down. When a computer overheats what commonly happens it the CPU speed is throttled down to lose some of the heat, if it goes beyond that then it just shuts down. You temperatures are looking fine so I wouldn't woory too much.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's true... my buddies computer (which he build himself and used an old as computer case with 2 fans sucking air out. His computer would slowdown and freeze a lot of times. And then he got a new case and more fans and it ran much cooler.
 
you know somethings is up when the tempature of the room the computer is in starts climbing. I use to remember my old system P2-233 :p would raise the tempature of my apartment by at least 5-10 degrees :whistle2:\
 
[quote name='hopesfall']For motherboard temp it goes from about 38-40 degrees when I'm not playing games, up to about 45-47 when I'm playing games. I am running a P4 630 3ghz with 512 mb of ram[/QUOTE]
That's pretty much the norm for a P4. Like someone said, your fans seem to be starting depending on rising or lowering temps, like during gaming. Not uncommon.
 
Looks like I'm not in horrible shape. Good to know! 2 more questions now. I do plan on upgrading the RAM by the end of the year by putting another 1 GB in, as well as an XFI sound card. Will either of those additions require more cooling? If so, what would be some good cooling units to look at? Thank you for all the help guys!
 
[quote name='hopesfall']Looks like I'm not in horrible shape. Good to know! 2 more questions now. I do plan on upgrading the RAM by the end of the year by putting another 1 GB in, as well as an XFI sound card. Will either of those additions require more cooling? If so, what would be some good cooling units to look at? Thank you for all the help guys![/QUOTE]

It shouldn't do anything much. Maybe one more degree at the most. If you are concerned then see if you can more fans to your computer case. If you can't then you can simply take of the side of the computer case, that should let it cool down a bit if the temperature of the room is cooler. You could also turn down the temperature down in the room, let the computer heat it.
 
Those additions shouldn't require any more cooling. RAM doesn't get very hot, and no sound cards require heatsinks.
 
[quote name='dtarasev']It shouldn't do anything much. Maybe one more degree at the most. If you are concerned then see if you can more fans to your computer case. If you can't then you can simply take of the side of the computer case, that should let it cool down a bit if the temperature of the room is cooler. You could also turn down the temperature down in the room, let the computer heat it.[/QUOTE]
No, never never never NEVER take off a panel to cool a comp. Unless you have really crappy cooling right now, it'll *raise* the temps.
 
[quote name='b0bx13']No, never never never NEVER take off a panel to cool a comp. Unless you have really crappy cooling right now, it'll *raise* the temps.[/QUOTE]

I assumed he did not have proper cooling when I made that statement. For instance if he has a Dell with no fans or something like that.
 
Your CPU is running a little hot. Try and make sure your heatsink and fans are not clogged with dust. Also, make sure you have fans.
 
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