Recent content by Dixie_Darlin

Totally want to thank all you guys. RobCrezz, I'm a she not a he. =) Evidently the Thermaltake water 2.0 bit the dust. I found out what happened with the stock cooler, one of the plastic pin thingy's was broken so I'm guessing that's what made it hotter as soon as it booted up. Correct? I...

Well darn, no improvement and really hot that time. Any other suggestions? I just don't know what else to do and afraid to leave it on for very long. Thanks, Dixie_Darlin

GPU is not hot. Checked that in Catalyst. Power supply fan working as I can see it. I'm not real familiar with the Thermaltake 2.0 but both of those fans are working. Strange it just happened last night. Thanks. Update: GPU is at 39C with a fan speed of 37%.

Last night my computer shut down and I realized it was hot. Wasn't doing anything but surfing. At any rate, I took the case apart dusted/canned aired everything out. No change, so I removed and reapplied Arctic Silver 5 (six times) and it idles at about 47C but even at 20% load I'm getting...