Nope, it was my north bridge getting hot because the new cooler doesn't blow down on the motherboard.

Luckily ASUS is so cool they include a fan with the motherboard for just such an occaison,...

Results. It's great... except I'm confused where SIV is getting this temp for 'T3 CPU' that is an alarming 121C while everything else is 40
...

I'm going to go with ARCTIC COOLING UCACO-FZ13100-BL. It's the biggest, best cooler I can get in that case.

When I upgrade to an AM3 mobo I think I'll make a DIY water cooler out of the project....

HTPC + Gaming PC.

http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=580&cl_index=1&sc_index=26&ss_index=68


It was a fine HTPC when I only had a phenom x4 in it, but I upgraded to...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186065 Pretty sure this is it unless someone gives me a clearly better solution. Thanks for reading.

Yeah, that's on the new short list.

35 db 150w http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2984&product_name=Vortex%20Plus
35 db 130w...

Must be a great company to have such consistent service?
Their website:
Making it cool for over 10 years!
:laugh:

Bonus points: the maximum overall height of the cooler is 140 mm.


Now I'm looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103057

And planning to drill a few holes for...

I was looking for some links to a HSF roundup, but the most recent one I could find on google was from Frostytech... like last year.

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm/

And don't get...

I tried freenas but was disappointed because I couldn't see how to get it to act as a primary domain controller for my house. Ubuntu works though, but getting windows 7 computers to log on is a...

I'm looking to upgrade my computer this Christmas and I've been really disappointed in my performance. I got a GTX 570 and swear it didn't help anything!

Stats on this machine:

AMD Phenom X4...

You should check the harddrives for SMART errors.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/5.42/
Is good for it.

You'll need another HDD on hand to replace the one...