Hi all Ive recently upgraded my pc i'm currently having trouble since upgrading with computer reboots etc Ive wiped it clean once and installed xp fresh and im still having problems. Is my psu able to cope as its blowing out warm air & seems to be nosier since upgrading from a 4200+ Athlon & 7300Gt gpu my temps are as follows My system is Amd Athlon 6000+ Cpu Radeon 4850 Gpu 3gb Ram 160 Gig Hdd asus M2v motherboard Corsair vs450w psu Coolermaster cavalier 3 case Any help would be much appreciated
How did you seat the Heatsink, did you use arctic silver or just the stuff that came on it from the store? Download and install Speedfan (see sig) and tell us what sort of temps you are seeing. That PSU may be a little under powered for that setup also, got any spares you can test it on?
Can you provide more details? When is it rebooting and how often? Blue screens, or is it just restarting by itself? List your temps while idle and under load as well.
Hi sorry for the late reply pc seems to be ok temps at mo are Temp 1 32oC Temp 2 34oC Temp 3 -128oC HD0 44oC Core 33oC i was worried the psu might be struggling its a corsair vx 450w I seated the psu with ShinEtsu Microsi thermal paste put a rice size on then put Zalman fan ontop of it am i supposed to spread the thermal paste?
Yes it has to be spread very finely (till you can almost see through it) Although you seem to have gotten away with it, yeah i'd say its the PSU probably too small then
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Yep, there's a good chance the power supply is the issue, especially with the new video card since it requires more resources. Check the video card temps, and run memtest86+, just to rule out some other possibilities.
