I think my computer is burning up...

Ahhhh!!!! My computer is melting man!!!

My computer just froze like 4 times. I touched the top of my computer case, not even the insides, but the case itself, at the top in the back, it was HOT.

I opened my case up, the following were burning up:
My power supply
My video card
My sound card
My sticks of RAM
My hard drive (this was the worst, I couldnt keep my finger on my HDD for more than 10 seconds... it was just too damn hot!!!)

Argh... what should I do? :(

Right now I have my big fan again, now its positioned so it sucks air out from inside my PC (thanks for the tip Barbarossa :P ). So far it seems to be working, everything has cooled off a bit, exept for my HDD's, they are still burning up!!!

Woot!

The big fan has been running at High speed for about 15 minutes (sucking the hot air out), everything is cool now!!! My temps went down, and the top of my computer is no longer burning up. Even the HDD's are cool now. So now I'm 100% sure my computer freezes because of overheating.

Now the question is... what should I do? I can't keep my case open all the time and this enormous fan running 24/7. The damn thing is all over the place....

There are two approaches that need to be explored in tandem to solve your problem.

1) Case airflow needs to be upgraded.
Without pics of your PC it's impossible to make specific recommendations, but somehow you have to get a good stream of air flowing in and out of the box.

2) Upgrading the heatsink/fans on your chips and cards might also help once your airflow can deal with the extra load.

It's hard to say whether your hard drives are the cause of all this heat or just suffering because of it...perhaps moving them is an option or at least, supplementing the airflow available to them can't hurt.

Oh jeez.

I can't provide a picture of my case, but this is what it looks like:
It's a case, closed up. No window, no 80mm fans, no 120mm fans. Now that I think about it, there is no way that there could be airflow inside... =/

I guess I need a whole new case...

At the back does it not have a grilled area, if it does go down to a local pc shop and pickup a few case fans, you just screw it into the grilled area. Have it pulling air out of the computer if it's so hot, and don't have it with it's back to a wall or in a very inclosed space.

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Originally Posted by Rip The Jacker

Oh jeez.
It's a case, closed up. No window, no 80mm fans, no 120mm fans. Now that I think about it, there is no way that there could be airflow inside... =/

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See?
There has been a mistake and your computer came installed in a coffin.
A real case would help considerably.

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Ok I have another question... what is Temp3? Whenever I do something CPU heavy, Temp3 rises very quickly, and when it hits 90C, my computer freezes, every time.

Is Temp3 by any chance my HDD? I have two hard drives, a 40GB one, and a 4GB one, and because of the lack of space, both hard drives are touching eachother... right on top of each other... so they get really hot. What if I took out my 4GB hard drive... would Temp3 stay at lower temperatures?

Try it, also why even have a 4GB hard drive? Not even big enough to support 1 standard game these days, and i doubt you'd even get Windows on it very well.

Temp 3 is not your hdd, if the temperature was available for that it would be marked as a drive temp.

Download everest home edition, it will probably give you a better idea of what the temps actually are. Speedfan is notoriously bad at identifying which is which.

I suspect any temp that rises rapidly as you've indicated will be the CPU temp, but it could be the PWM temp if that's monitored.

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Originally Posted by lynx

Temp 3 is not your hdd, if the temperature was available for that it would be marked as a drive temp.

Download everest home edition, it will probably give you a better idea of what the temps actually are. Speedfan is notoriously bad at identifying which is which.

I suspect any temp that rises rapidly as you've indicated will be the CPU temp, but it could be the PWM temp if that's monitored.

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Ok, so Temp1 is CPU, and Temp2 is my Mobo... I still don't understand what Temp3 is... it's Temp3 that gets too high when my CPU usage is t 100%, so it's Temp3 that causes my computer to freeze... if I could make whatever Temp3 was to go away...

Rather than have a database of motherboards and their connections (which is how Everest works) Speedfan shows you the possible inputs and allows you to configure them yourself. That way it only needs to know about the sensor chips. Everest needs an update every time a new mobo comes out which is obviously quite often. Speedfan only needs an update when a new sensor chip is used, which is a much more rare event.

The simple fact is that the temp sensor on your motherboard is capable of having more inputs than it is using, so Speedfan shows you the extra unused sensor. Now that you know it isn't used you can click the configure button and tell Speedfan not to display it.

Then you've only got the high Temp1 & Temp2 to worry about. :ermm:

I'm a little lost... it isn't used? But Temp3 is what causes my computer to freeze.

Whenever my CPU usage is high, Temp3 reaches 90C, then my PC just dies... even if SpeedFan is not running. Temp1 and Temp2 never go that high...

Even if I remove Temp3 from SpeedFan, my PC is still going to freeze if I do something CPU heavy, because it's there. I'm sorry lynx, I just don't know what to do...

Unused inouts like that should be fastened to ground, obviously this one isn't. Consequently it is "floating" and is affected by the other inputs. However, since you don't need to monitor it that hardly matters.

I feel confident in saying that when your pc freezes the cpu temp will have gone up too. One of my systems freezes if the cpu temp gets to about 65C. Fortunately that only happens when the heatsink gets clogged with dust.

The bottom line is that your system is still far too hot, it doesn't really matter whether you look at the cpu temp or this spurious Temp3. And we've already established that the case is the problem. The solution is obvious - get some fans in the case or, if there's nowhere for extra fans, get a new case.

Sigh... your right. I guess it doesn't matter what the numbers are, in the end, it's all too hot. :(

I have a PNY 6600GT, when I game it goes no higher than 62C, it rapidly cools down to 52 after I'm done (takes bout 5 mins.)

Idle its about 50-52C

Is this normal, bad, good? What? I've tried google, but many people say different things...I'm lost, help.

Those are normal temps for the stock air-cooled 6600 cards.

Cool, thanks.