[Valdez]

How accurate is speedfan? It shows a little flame symbol beside GPU and the temperature is at 73C... The card is superoverclocked by default, is this temperature something I should worry about?

and also

the past 2 days, this has only happened twice, and I should note there is some heavy construction in my area and it never happened before this contsruction... My PC has powered off randomly two times, and powered back on with the warning screen asking if i want to start it normally. But it is odd that the monitor doesnt shut off... but at same time TV's in the house flickered on and off which is very bizzare to me that only the tower and tv sets would do this but not the rest of the electrically powered things in the house such as lights... this is why I downloaded speedfan though to check the temperature of the cpu. The case fans are both working and the psu fan is blowing steadily and I cleaned the whole pc out not long about so there should not be any dust build up... any ideas? I'm hoping/assuming its just related to the construction in the area since its pretty major, but I'm open to help troubleshooting.

thank you in advance

[mctw]

speedfan simply shows the information gathered by the temperature sensors. as to the little flame symbol, that is giving you a warning it is to hot, however, the software cant tell the difference between components, or work out a good temp, so its set at about 40 i think.

if you hit configure on speedfan, and click on a temperature sensor, you can rename it, and set the desired and warning temperatures there.

i have a 8800GS factory overclocked like yours, plus my own overclock, and that idles in the low 50s, and when gaming goes up to the high 60s. 73c is by no way a problem, could do with being a little cooler perhaps, whats your case cooling like?

as to your pc powering off, its gotta be interference from construction work if your tvs are doing it also. monitors use less power that pcs, and are a lot simplier, so less likely to be effected by power surges/drops.

[Valdez]

Originally Posted by mctw

speedfan simply shows the information gathered by the temperature sensors. as to the little flame symbol, that is giving you a warning it is to hot, however, the software cant tell the difference between components, or work out a good temp, so its set at about 40 i think.

if you hit configure on speedfan, and click on a temperature sensor, you can rename it, and set the desired and warning temperatures there.

i have a 8800GS factory overclocked like yours, plus my own overclock, and that idles in the low 50s, and when gaming goes up to the high 60s. 73c is by no way a problem, could do with being a little cooler perhaps, whats your case cooling like?

as to your pc powering off, its gotta be interference from construction work if your tvs are doing it also. monitors use less power that pcs, and are a lot simplier, so less likely to be effected by power surges/drops.

The cooling seems fine, there is ventilation holes on the side panel beside all of the pci slots and a fan just slighly above it on both the side panel and the back. I should have noticed that that may not be the idle temperature because I had just finished playing a fairly graphically intense game on max settings, although it still showed that temperature up to 30 minutes after I was finished playing. It's idle temperature with no load is in the mid 50's. When playing a game it shoots up between 70-79.


Also, the thing I find odd about the computer shutting off as well as the TV's is that nothing else besides those things even flickers, not even the lights in the room. It doesn't reboot even, it just completely powers off and then back on very quickly as it would if there was a bad thunderstorm.

Thank you very much for your reply.

[mctw]

you might benefit from a case fan pulling air into the case as well. The temperatures are nothing to worry about though.

And i agree, that is odd, the only thing i can think of is that the power must have dropped or surged for an extremely small amount of time, so the difference in the lights wasn't noticeable, Tv's and Computer's (towers) are far more sensitive to electrical fluctuations than say a light bulb.

If you havent already, id advise you buying a surge protector to protect your kit! A mate of mine has just had to buy a brand new motherboard and PSU, due to a power surge! Construction work can cause power fluctuations.

[Carbon]

Yeah, 80c work is not a temp to be concerned about.