I got the Vantec Aeroflow2. Fan runs at about 4500 rpm.

Unfortunately CS still makes it run really hot, and when I tried to uninstall CS something made it go way hot, too. I'm just not sure what the hell the problem is now.

I'm working on my dad's computer right now. Copying over my documents and burning some video files. Then once it's all copied over, I'm going to format my drive. It needed it anyway. Everything's way too fragmented and never wants to get fixed. Maybe there's some kind of virus that wants to drain all my cpu power. I dunno, but if that doesn't at least help, then I'll probably be boned in the computer area

 

Welcome to the land of AMD. Hope you like your space heater. :exnbp:

 

did you try loading the "failsafe defaults"?

 

:werd: My next upgrade will involve a cpu that's never given me any trouble... good ol' Intel. I shouldn't have listened to the people who said that AMD was the best for gaming. I should've listened to my buddies in the computer department at my old job :/

I didn't do the failsafe settings because I figured the problem was basically fixed. I'll probably do it when I put my HD back in my machine.

 

I did find a newer problem. seems native to this board and this board only.

apparently the cpu diode temperature is falsely reported to the bios's C.O.P. *CPU overload protection) and causes it to shutdown. This explains why my bios's hardware detection temperatures were so amazingly high on my cpu. I found a program that effectively "resets" the diode sensor and makes it display the real temperature. I'm about to test it by starting up CS.