FM warming PC?

Sometimes I realize a kind of an odor here, but PC have never restarted or something.

I was not sure if it could be FM related, but then I downloaded trial version of Everest to keep an eye. Before I load FM, processor was about 60º (running only internet applications). After I load, the temperature increased to about 70º, and when a match is being played it went to about 80º. I'm now worried about it. Is there a way to handle this?

FM 2006, Pentium 4 3GHZ. Thanks in advance.

Sometimes I realize a kind of an odor here, but PC have never restarted or something.

I was not sure if it could be FM related, but then I downloaded trial version of Everest to keep an eye. Before I load FM, processor was about 60º (running only internet applications). After I load, the temperature increased to about 70º, and when a match is being played it went to about 80º. I'm now worried about it. Is there a way to handle this?

FM 2006, Pentium 4 3GHZ. Thanks in advance.

Perhaps you should do a Google search on "fan control" for your particular machine. It's likely you can find software that manages your fans and core temp. Did wonders for my hot-hot-hot Dell a few years ago.

Great, I will do that. Although I'm afraid it will possibly require a lot of technical skill, am I right?

Actually, no. The program that I found was very easy to use.

Alternatively, have you tried looking at your bios setup? You might be able to choose a higher fan speed here too.

Or one way i lowered my Heat, was by just adding another fan to the back of the computer. Twas very cheap and i could install it myself

What processor do you have? Those temperatures sound pretty damn hot to me, IIRC AMD processors have a safety shut down at about 80C.

I'd suggest reseating your existing heatsink/fan, but as you'd need to clean the processor and reapply thermal paste. If you aren't comfortable doing all that then you could always buy a new heatsink/fan with a pre-applied thermal pad. Ideally you'd clean the previous gunk off the processor, but even if you don't I'm sure you'd see a significant improvement.

If you don't fancy either of those then extra fans might help a little. Take note of the direction air is moving through the fans (there's usually a little arrow); you want the fans at the front of the case to be pulling air in and the ones at the back blowing out. Also if you have a fan on the side, a common mistake is to have it blowing out hot air. Due to the position of the CPU fan in most computers, it's normally more effective to have it drawing in cool air.

sounds simple, but have you tried vacuuming/hoovering your computer? get rid of excess dust that could be causing a blockage of air flow

I'd strongly suggest using a can of compressed air to blow dust out rather than a vacuum. There are a lot of things on the motherboard like capacitors that could easily be sucked up.

It's a good point though; just blowing some dust out of the heatsink might make a difference.

my previous computer used to overheat with FM. also overheated with halflife 2.

when it came to buying a new one i made sure that there were loads of vents on the casing and good quality fans.

How do you check the temperature of your pc?

You say its a Pentium 4. Some of these ran very hot unless you used some specialist cooling. I had a 3.6ghz version and it idled around the same temps you mention and went as high as yours when FM was processing. I tried software solutions, new heatsink and fan, none of it made a difference so in the end I upgraded.

The comp ran fine despite the heat but I didn't want the one time it did overheat too much and crash be a game ruining one

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i used to check mine by touching the casing. if it burned me then it was too hot.

not very scientific but it worked had to take the side off and blow a stand up fan at it everytime i used it.

i'm sure you get software that comes with the computer that checks heat though

I believe, unless you have got specific software to monitor your CPU temperature, that you have to go into BIOS to view your temperature settings. Its something like pressing F8 or some similar key when your computer is first turned on that will take you into the main menu. Normally you then can see the default settings and when your PC is programmed to shut down if temperature gets above a certain heat, i.e. 70C.

Check the CD's that came with the comp, they often have software for monitoring the system. If you can find any and you know the motherboard model no. (probably available in the manuals that came with it or on the makers website) then you can download MBM (motherboard monitor) and this will tell you lots of info about your mobo.

What program are you using to monitor temperatures? If your PC isnt shutting down, it will be fine. Once something overheats it shuts down the computer to be safe.

I really thank you for all these replies. Well, I'm using "Everest Ultimate Edition", a diagnostics tool, it shows us a lot of stuff about performance. I'm reading and thinking about your tips!