My sister Mary brought her HP desktop to me because it was shutting down. She suspected it was heat-related.
I confirmed her suspicions. About 10 minutes after booting, the CPU fan would spin faster. I installed SpeedFan which said the GPU was running at 98C.
Opened the case and found the CPU heat sink was clogged. Cleaned it out. SpeedFan now said that GPU was running at 72C which I thought was high.
I then installed Speccy and its temp readout is different. See below.
These temps look good to me. Why the conflict between Speccy and SpeedFan? Maybe SpeedFan hasn't kept up with new hardware.
Summary
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Athlon II X4 630 30 °C
Propus 45nm Technology
RAM
6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
PEGATRON CORPORATION VIOLET6 (CPU 1) 44 °C
Graphics
COMPAQ FP5315 (1024x768@60Hz)
256MB GeForce 9100 (HP)
Hard Drives
149GB Seagate ST3160812AS ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW TS-H653R ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device
I confirmed her suspicions. About 10 minutes after booting, the CPU fan would spin faster. I installed SpeedFan which said the GPU was running at 98C.
Opened the case and found the CPU heat sink was clogged. Cleaned it out. SpeedFan now said that GPU was running at 72C which I thought was high.
I then installed Speccy and its temp readout is different. See below.
These temps look good to me. Why the conflict between Speccy and SpeedFan? Maybe SpeedFan hasn't kept up with new hardware.
Summary
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Athlon II X4 630 30 °C
Propus 45nm Technology
RAM
6.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
PEGATRON CORPORATION VIOLET6 (CPU 1) 44 °C
Graphics
COMPAQ FP5315 (1024x768@60Hz)
256MB GeForce 9100 (HP)
Hard Drives
149GB Seagate ST3160812AS ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW TS-H653R ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device
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