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Hi
I've been having trouble with my PC. I built it myself about 3 months ago (its not the first PC ive built).
When I first got it up and running, it had faulty RAM - I got lots of scandisk errors and consistent crashing/corruption of files.
I got the RAM replaced but there still remained the problem of instability after about 30mins of stressful-cpu activity (i.e. gaming, compiling). Also, when the PC was doing anything, the sound crackled if anything was playing (not always but in specific applications/tasks).
I was told that the PC would be more stable if i used PC133 RAM (instead of PC100) because im using a KT133 motherboard. So I bought 256MB PC133 ram to replace my 128MB PC100 RAM.
This improved stability a little and greatly reduced the sound crackling problem.
The CPU temperature is generally 55-60deg. C. This is way too high, I know. The fan/heatsync do look pretty big but I think I should do something about that temperature even if it doesn't fix my instability problems (although if it does both itll be great
)
I'm considering buying a GlobalWin WBK38 heatsync (with 60mm delta fan) and then applying some Arctic Silver II to reduce the temperature further.
Am I making a good choice? I'd like some info, feedback, user opinions, whatever, on these 2 products. Do they go together well?
Also if anyone could suggest what could be causing my instability/sound crackling please let me know! My system spec is below:
AMD Thunderbird 900mHz - Socket A (not overclocked)
ASUS A7V motherboard
256MB PC133 RAM
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 1024
Creative GeForce2 GTS
30GB HDD,DVD/CDRW,etc
Thanks in advance
Daniel Drake
dan@reactivated.net
I've been having trouble with my PC. I built it myself about 3 months ago (its not the first PC ive built).
When I first got it up and running, it had faulty RAM - I got lots of scandisk errors and consistent crashing/corruption of files.
I got the RAM replaced but there still remained the problem of instability after about 30mins of stressful-cpu activity (i.e. gaming, compiling). Also, when the PC was doing anything, the sound crackled if anything was playing (not always but in specific applications/tasks).
I was told that the PC would be more stable if i used PC133 RAM (instead of PC100) because im using a KT133 motherboard. So I bought 256MB PC133 ram to replace my 128MB PC100 RAM.
This improved stability a little and greatly reduced the sound crackling problem.
The CPU temperature is generally 55-60deg. C. This is way too high, I know. The fan/heatsync do look pretty big but I think I should do something about that temperature even if it doesn't fix my instability problems (although if it does both itll be great
)I'm considering buying a GlobalWin WBK38 heatsync (with 60mm delta fan) and then applying some Arctic Silver II to reduce the temperature further.
Am I making a good choice? I'd like some info, feedback, user opinions, whatever, on these 2 products. Do they go together well?
Also if anyone could suggest what could be causing my instability/sound crackling please let me know! My system spec is below:
AMD Thunderbird 900mHz - Socket A (not overclocked)
ASUS A7V motherboard
256MB PC133 RAM
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 1024
Creative GeForce2 GTS
30GB HDD,DVD/CDRW,etc
Thanks in advance
Daniel Drake
dan@reactivated.net
