Alarm sounding on PC

[ajones]

Just upgraded the guts of a friends machine with the fallout after a series of PC upgrades I did for the household PCs. The CPU was an AMD X2 4600 with the stock cooler, and he was having getting an alarm raised by the mobo when he started anything CPU intensive. After reading up, the temperature threshold on the X2 wasn't that great (64 degrees or summat like that) and even at idle the CPU was running around 50, so it didn't take a great deal to knock it over the edge.

I upgraded a couple of the system fans, but the big difference was replacing the TIM on the CPU, which knocked 10 degrees off the temp straight away.

I'd try that first, by far the cheapest thing to try.

[Steven W]

I've gone for a Corsair A50 cooler

[Legthigh]

I've gone for a Corsair A50 cooler

Let us know how you get on mate