Started playing Skyrim again too, but whatever, I'm a COD fanboy, at least I can admit to it ;)
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You're lucky that no permanent damage was done (well, maybe some psychological). Your story reminds me of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxSqCdT7xPY
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Haha yeah I thought of that video too. Luckily the V8 heatsink portion is just MASSIVE as all hell. Pretty sure that's the only thing that saved my CPU. Over-the-top coolers FTW.
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I would've gotten a freaking heart attack, good to know it actually managed to hold out with those temps.
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Possibly your power supply is failing and not sending enough power to the fans?
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Nah, the fans draw so little power compared to the rest of the components (GTX 460 SE, Core i7, X58 mobo) there's no way the fans wouldn't power but the rest would, they totally locked up, it was odd.
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First thing that came to mind was something funny i read earlier in a game
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If your fans are plugged into your motherboard, it might be better to plug them directly into your power supply.
Many CPUs underclock themselves to stay within safe temps. I saw an i7 system running with only one of the heatsink pins properly. When the guy checked on it after seeing the temps, the thermal paste wasn't even touching much of the CPU.
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They're all powered fully right from the PSU. :)
Good tip though, I feel the same way bout the mobo leads, I'd rather just have them always on all the time.
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Interesting article about processor temperatures (and more):
http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/02/26/intel-core-i7-temperatures/
Apparently 80°C should be the recommended maximum, even though intel decided to make the official info a "trade secret"... go figure :S
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Apparantly they've had that since 2007? http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-removable-laptop-water-cooler!-And-other-co/
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There's no need for water cooling to me... Last thing I need is a failed RAD/pump system, then my chip would really be fried, at least the massive V8 heatsink without the fan still kept the chip alive.
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(Preface: I work in IT, network specialist but today I had to handle a ton of downed servers and PCs... it was a long day...)
I come home to install the new stupid little card reader I got with a gift card for Christmas. I open up my PC just to take a poke at the motherboard to find the USB leads I'm plugging into... When I start to notice something, my bottom-mounted case fan isn't spinning.
At first I thought "ok, no big deal, I can live without the bottom fan." Then I look at the two top mounted fans (same model fans) not spinning either. Then I take a peek at the little LCD screen on my actual board which shows me the temps... says 98c, and I go "HOLY SHEET". I usually run in the high 20's to lower 30's. Something clearly isn't right.
I grab my flashlight and start poking around in the case a bit more while the PC is on. I notice that between the massive metal parts of my V8 heatsink, the fan for the cooling power on the CPU isn't spinning either.
Four (actually five...) fans down, in one day. So glad I bought this card reader and opened my PC, I've been playing MASSIVE amounts of COD lately and I'm shocked it hasn't blown up yet hahaha.
I had to go out and drop a ton of money on new hardwdare, and a new V8 (pretty darn expensive... but I plan on returning the broken one in the new one's box, shhhhh) and about 7 hours later I'm back up and running and I notice my rear case fan is only spinning at about 1/4 of the RPMs it should, and it's locking up too awesome! (This is the five comes from earlier.)
What happened to Fridays being awesome nights out? Blargh.
TL;DR my PC almost died, I saved it, wasn't what I wanted to do today. [/rant]
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