It's an Athlon 64 dual core X2 given up for dead on my proverbial front doorstep by a relative.
Basically I've got an old machine here I'm trying to fix and the strangest thing keeps coming up, the machine will suddenly shut down as if the power cord was ripped out of it.
I've done some experiments, firing up a big fat nasty session of TMPGEnc Batch processing (video file conversion - nice big fat 1900x1400 wmv file to 1900x1400 mpeg) while running Celestia (a GL-based astronomy program) and I have Speedfan 4.34 running at the same time. This way I can monitor the temperature of both cores.
I've charted this 3 times and each time one of the cores hits 109C and the other hits 70C, boom, it shuts down before the video conversion process is anywhere close to done.
There's no more dust in this machine (there was loads of it before) but one fan is broken, half its blades are gone. The blades were stuck inside, causing the fan not to move. So when I tweezered them out and the fan started moving again, I ran the same tests again and the CPUs stayed around 51/54C and completed the task.
Time will tell if it keeps this up, but with the fan broken, it's time to replace it.
Basically what's a good kick butt fan/cooling system for the Athlon 64 X2 that doesn't require water/etc.? I am thinking that a good heat sink/fan combo will work but I want to get one of the best that I can, because I think that if this is solved, I will have revived this PC and can give it back.
Thanks. :)
Basically I've got an old machine here I'm trying to fix and the strangest thing keeps coming up, the machine will suddenly shut down as if the power cord was ripped out of it.
I've done some experiments, firing up a big fat nasty session of TMPGEnc Batch processing (video file conversion - nice big fat 1900x1400 wmv file to 1900x1400 mpeg) while running Celestia (a GL-based astronomy program) and I have Speedfan 4.34 running at the same time. This way I can monitor the temperature of both cores.
I've charted this 3 times and each time one of the cores hits 109C and the other hits 70C, boom, it shuts down before the video conversion process is anywhere close to done.
There's no more dust in this machine (there was loads of it before) but one fan is broken, half its blades are gone. The blades were stuck inside, causing the fan not to move. So when I tweezered them out and the fan started moving again, I ran the same tests again and the CPUs stayed around 51/54C and completed the task.
Time will tell if it keeps this up, but with the fan broken, it's time to replace it.
Basically what's a good kick butt fan/cooling system for the Athlon 64 X2 that doesn't require water/etc.? I am thinking that a good heat sink/fan combo will work but I want to get one of the best that I can, because I think that if this is solved, I will have revived this PC and can give it back.
Thanks. :)
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