Screenie As Promised: 106º!!

[Crysalis]

you know what, i bet your right. I'm not home right now, but i know for a fact that if i touch the heatsink it wont burn me. I can almost bet money that it is my new HD (WD 200gb). I have a 6.5 gb seagate (used for backups) and a brand new western digital 200gb. They are right next to each other (no slots in between them), so i bet they are heating each other up and causing this. The seagate is only used in the wee hours of the morning for backup schedules, so i bet its the 200gb heating up and also heating up the seagate.

I have a question about that anyway; is my 6.5gb causing underperformance of my 200gb? I dont know how many rpms the 6.5gb runs at, but i do know that the 200gb is 7,200 rpms. Should i ditch the 6.5gb and just keep my backups on the new drive? I DO NOT want to partition the 200gb, so dont suggest it.

The only thing i just realized, when i pointed that spare fan at the cpu, the two high temps went down, so it may not be the HD's. I dont know!

 

[ShoobieRat]

6.5gb HDDs still exist? LOL

Your HDDs won't produce enough heat to push a processor heat sensor into the 106 degree range. You've got a funky motherboard. Replace it.

 

[Crysalis]

no no no... i think the high temps are coming from the sensors in the HD, not the HD causing that temp.

 

[ShoobieRat]

Your HDD has heat sensors? That's weird.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Your HDD has heat sensors? That's weird.

Most HD's have them now

 

[gaara]

I don't think your hard drive would be 106 either, hard drives run efficently in the 40 degree range, once a hard drive heats up, the chance of failure dramatically increases. I don't think your hard drive would work properly at 106.

 

[Crysalis]

to heck with it. It still works like a champ so what do i care?!

 

[killians45]

the exhaust on the psu wont be nearly enough. you need air convection carrying off excess heat. imagine it like this. its a hot day. you put a fan infront of the window bringing some cooler air in by putting a fan in one window to bring air in and create a nice breeze by placing one at a window on the other side of the room. creates a nice cross breeze. Now, take the same setup but instead of a window have on facing a wall and another pulling in air from a radiator. now your just blowing hot air on yourself.

 

[GrimReaper23]

no i think speedfan is screwed up

 

[Crysalis]

I know about cooling... i just dont have time nor money to work on my computer. I'm barely home. Most of the time i'm posting in between classes.

Grimreaper- i've used NUMEROUS programs and they all say the same temps. Its not speedfan... its my heat sensors.