07-06-2003, 06:40 PM
I had something similar going on here.
I was actually getting system shutdown due to heat. I turned on the software cooling in the monitor, and that cooled off the CPU nicely, except when in D2. They seem to feel the need to pump Kernel processor usage to 100% when the game is running, which prevents sofware cooling from doing anything.
So, I started digging in. My fans were already pretty clean, but I hadn't taken the CPU fan right off for a while, since the 'puter I use for D2 has a Slot 1 type processor which is a bit of a pain to take apart. When I did, however, there was a lovely blanket of lint on the heatsink.
After cleaning it up, I have no more heat issues. CPU temp runs 60ºC while running D2, (software cooling still doesn't help there), and around 40ºC while doing "normal" things.
By the way, you mention taht your CPU "spikes up to around 50 degrees Celsius". It is possible that your system is under-reporting the CPU temperature, there are a number of boards that had that problem recently, and there may be a BIOS update to correct that.
-rcv-
I was actually getting system shutdown due to heat. I turned on the software cooling in the monitor, and that cooled off the CPU nicely, except when in D2. They seem to feel the need to pump Kernel processor usage to 100% when the game is running, which prevents sofware cooling from doing anything.
So, I started digging in. My fans were already pretty clean, but I hadn't taken the CPU fan right off for a while, since the 'puter I use for D2 has a Slot 1 type processor which is a bit of a pain to take apart. When I did, however, there was a lovely blanket of lint on the heatsink.
After cleaning it up, I have no more heat issues. CPU temp runs 60ºC while running D2, (software cooling still doesn't help there), and around 40ºC while doing "normal" things.
By the way, you mention taht your CPU "spikes up to around 50 degrees Celsius". It is possible that your system is under-reporting the CPU temperature, there are a number of boards that had that problem recently, and there may be a BIOS update to correct that.
-rcv-