Aditional Cooling Needed?

[paradidle]

Im getting a little concerned with the temperature when my pooter when its running games and programs. When its appliation free, the temp sits around 45oc - 50, but then shoots up to 75-80oc when I stick on a game like AA or BHD.

Should I worry? Complete noob here when it comes to cooling, as far as Im aware, its basic fan colling.

specs are below

Cheers

[Lee H]

ouch thats one hot system

What size case you got and have you got case fans blowing in the right direction. I would also look @ the cpu cooler as well

Best Regards

Lee

[da_ging]

thats suggests either 1 very small cooler or a bad contact ,remounting the cooler may fix it (make sure you loosen the screws for the motherboard first as the board needs to flex when mounting the cooler)

[Lee H]

hmm, please can we have a full system specs list so we can see where the heat is coming from and also how much room there will be inside the case for additional cooling items.

Lee

[blockers]

1) Where are you reading the temperature from?
2) What system are you using?
3) How many/if any case fans do you have?
4) What HSF are you using?
5) Have you got an thermal paste on there?

Will

[paradidle]

Ok here we go:
P4 2.8 533 fsb
9800 pro
2x512 DDR-SDRAM PC2700
865PE Neo2-PS Series

Im reading the temperature from msi's corecentre program

memory voltage is 2.65v
agp is 1.7v


sorry about the quality