K9a2cf motherboard
amd athlon 6400+ 3.2 ghz on two cores
4 gigs ram
3870 ati saphire
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
While playing TF2 I minimized the game to run in a window at 1440x? res and was able to view my dual core center on other side of the screen and saw the temp go up and up and up. While doing normal apps it stays cool. But I have noticed now that while running games the cpu gets hot. I mean 80 celsius hot. Not good. My rig runs hot but I never bothered to really monitor it until TF2 started to recently crash over and over again. The heatsink looks pretty dusty? Could this be it? Or do I just not have proper airflow? I only have two fans going besides the heatsink. One 80mm on side that sucks in and a 120mm on the back that expels. There is another slot in front (120mm) that I can place another fan in to help draw the airflow.... but really? Team Fortress? I never expected that it would do that to a cpu. I have played it on this computer for about two years and never had a problem? Crisis also. I am just wondering if this is an indicator that the cpu could be going out. Anyhow... any advice I would appreciate. Thanks.
amd athlon 6400+ 3.2 ghz on two cores
4 gigs ram
3870 ati saphire
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
While playing TF2 I minimized the game to run in a window at 1440x? res and was able to view my dual core center on other side of the screen and saw the temp go up and up and up. While doing normal apps it stays cool. But I have noticed now that while running games the cpu gets hot. I mean 80 celsius hot. Not good. My rig runs hot but I never bothered to really monitor it until TF2 started to recently crash over and over again. The heatsink looks pretty dusty? Could this be it? Or do I just not have proper airflow? I only have two fans going besides the heatsink. One 80mm on side that sucks in and a 120mm on the back that expels. There is another slot in front (120mm) that I can place another fan in to help draw the airflow.... but really? Team Fortress? I never expected that it would do that to a cpu. I have played it on this computer for about two years and never had a problem? Crisis also. I am just wondering if this is an indicator that the cpu could be going out. Anyhow... any advice I would appreciate. Thanks.