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    AMD Athlon X2 4800 overheating! HELP!!

    sorry i must clarify, it 'looks like' the Scythe Zipang.
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    AMD Athlon X2 4800 overheating! HELP!!

    well! it all worked out! ran it for 2 days..no issues..no overheating and no reboots! thanks everyone for helping with your inputs!! cheers! :)
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    AMD Athlon X2 4800 overheating! HELP!!

    so here's what i did in the meantime...i read up on the cooler master thermal paste i was using..and apparently they're rubbish. So i applied the thermal paste that came with the GPU cooler. (thermal right) and it seems to be stable now...its showing 56c on load..which seems about right. I'm...
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    AMD Athlon X2 4800 overheating! HELP!!

    I have an AMD X2 4800 (brisbane), on a Gigabyte AM2 mobo, with 2gigs of ddr 2 800 mhz ram, a 4850 with thermalright AMC and a creative extreme gamer soundcard. My PSU is a Tagan 600w (truepower). Now, the story: off late my system started turning off while playing games or running heavy...