Overheating: Enemy Number One - Comments Page 2

For my laptops, I've used laptop legs, little folding legs that stick on the bottom of the case & elevate it for better intake airflow. Similar to the folding legs on a keyboard.

Thanks for the insightful article. I like your temporary fix for your heat problem.
I had a similar problem when the fan on my GPU failed. I took an extra 80mm fan and loosely strapped it on with zip ties so that it would hang approx an inch below the graphics card. I then plugged it into the motherboard for a constant power supply and viola! Problem solved.
The extra loosely hanging wires I tied up with another zip tie.

ROBERT - RE YOUR 15 AUG ENTRY:

"{. . .]and sometimes is accompanied by a small cloud of dust."

THIS is a sign that your comptuer could use some cleaning before it's too late. I drive around in the North Central deserts of Nevada doing research and when I SEE dust, I know it's time to get out that "can of air" (I often just have a SMALL heavy duty compressor to keep my tires inflated and using a *GOOD* HEPA filter) blow it out using low pressure - which can be a couple of times a week depending on how open I keep my windows or how much wind is blowing - it's that stuff that will eat up or 'burn out' your comptuer. My last comptuer lasted until some online company tossed out some file trying to 'fix' a simple problem that forced me to buy a new comptuer -- about 13 years. THAT is what a clean comptuer can do for you.

Watch the dust when the fan starts up, it's telling you it's time to pull the case and just blow a LITTLE air through it to keep it clean. A good analogy is the buried BBQ pig -- The 'dirt' you use to bury it is the dust, your computer is the pig.

SO NO SOLUTION OTHER THAN THROW MORE AIR AT THE PROBLEM? No small, simple liquid or gas cooler? I mean, Jezzz, even when I lived without power during a graduate program, I used pipe and tubing to keep about 200 gallons of water hot by simple convection heating of some of those metal drums!

We use 21st century technology and stone age technology to cool it?

I use MBAM and update & scan with it on a regular schedule.
I surfed to the "SpeedFan" site and clicked on the proper "Download." Then I went to the "Core Temp" site (both www.almico.com...) and got the message that the latter does not exist. Then when I ran MBAM, I was told that MBAM had quarantined _SpeedFan_!!! I have uninstalled it. Could be a glitch, but I am **not** taking any chances so I uninstalled SpeedFan and won't try for Core Temp again. I'll investigate alternate routes. Safe than sorry. Just my experience. Yours evidently was quite different. Thanks for posting the article anyway.

@butch

Core temp is not from almico.com, its from alcpu.com. Differrent site, different makers. And believe me your MBAM is wrong, its false positive. Both program are ok to use.

I downloaded this program but really don't know how to use it. Is it monitoring my temperature on an ongoing basis and will it pop up a warning if my computer is getting too hot? Or, do I have to open it to get the readings if I suspect something is wrong?

Speccy by Piriform (free) gives me all the temperature readings I need: CPU, Graphics Card, Hard Drives & Motherboard.

Using an old Mecer XP tower, I had a 64 bit ready PC for Windows 7 built in, using an ASUSTek Inc MotherBoard P5P43TD (28 degrees C); Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33 GHz CPU (38 degrees C); Nvidia Graphics Card GeForce GTS 250 (35 degrees C); Two Seagate HDDs 500 GB = Local C:\ (32 degrees C) and D:\ (31 degrees C).

Everything ran too hot, so I added two EXTRACTOR, 1200 RPM silent fans, to the side panel, cutting squares of the panel out, to expel the heat, which brought the temperatures down to those given in brackets, and my PC has been running all day today. Of course, the tower must still be cleaned every six months or so of dust and fluff.

It seems, in my view, better policy to expel the heat rather than blow in more air, which works to advantage on hot days.

Thanks for the article Bob.

Despite warnings above, I still fell for the misleading add that says "download" for Speedfan. And I'm suppose to be a computer expert. Kind of insulted why they would do that. But then again, I don't think they have much control over what kind of ads they put on their website. Or do they???

Be very careful