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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 00:52:57 -0800, "OscartheGrouch" <Tondaleo@hotmail.com> wrote:

>In Doom3 I kept getting kicked to desktop. My cpu was running really hot 
>then, I replaced it with a good heatsink and never got booted to desktop 
>again. Until now in Q4. CPU is running around 132F (57C). It was running way 
>higher in D3. MB running 95F (35C) and GPU around 53C, whatever that is in 
>farenheit. Is my gpu running too hot? Geforce 6800GT, Athalon 2800+, 1 gig 
>dram, Asus A7N8X. I can't play 5 minutes without getting kicked to desktop, 
>no error messages. TIA, OTG 
>

Well, I've still got the same mobo and CPU running on one machine, and it always has run pretty
hot under a full load (both the Tbird on the KT266 and the Barton on the Nforce2 did).  Those
numbers seem to be about right.  The only thing that ever helped as far as lockups and getting
kicked back to the desktop (apart from the bigass HS and Fan, actually opening up the side of
the case for airflow, and so on) was reseating the heatsink every month or so and making sure
not to use too much thermal compund.  I also remember that replacing my PSU with a more reliable
and powerful one helped a lot with the crashes.

Supposedly temps above 60C aren't unusual, but I used to always worry when they got that high
during gaming.

This forum always seemed to have the best info.
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/asus-vf13.html

Using one of the idle-loop fixes seemed to keep it from jumping up too high too quickly even
though they're mostly for the KT133 & 266 chipsets.  VCool always seemed to do the best job and
it was free too.  It's getting hard to find, though.  I'm not sure if Martin Peters even does
anything with it anymore.

VCool -  http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1012013416/1 

or maybe
http://www.cpufsb.de/CPUCOOL.HTM

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On 11/3/2005 12:52 AM OscartheGrouch brightened our day with:

>In Doom3 I kept getting kicked to desktop. My cpu was running really hot 
>then, I replaced it with a good heatsink and never got booted to desktop 
>again. Until now in Q4. CPU is running around 132F (57C). It was running way 
>higher in D3. MB running 95F (35C) and GPU around 53C, whatever that is in 
>farenheit. Is my gpu running too hot? Geforce 6800GT, Athalon 2800+, 1 gig 
>dram, Asus A7N8X. I can't play 5 minutes without getting kicked to desktop, 
>no error messages. TIA, OTG 
>
>
>  
>
You should try running RivaTuner's Hardware Monitoring.  Set it to watch 
your GPU during a game.  My 6800 shoots up to 70c when gaming, no 
problems, supposed to go that high, I think if for some reason you were 
going into the 80's or 90's on your GPU, then you'd be in trouble.
Is your CPU overclocked?  If it isn't overclocked then 57 might be OK, 
if it is overclocked then you need to get the temp down.  I have an XP 
running at 2200 MHz, it idles at 42c and knocks on the door around 50c 
when gaming.  If it was me I'd freak out if I was running at 57, but 
then my CPU is overclocked by 20%. 
How are you getting the 57 temperature?  When you check some monitoring 
software for highest temperatures, often they'll show "spikes" that 
aren't really indicative of the actual temperatures achieved under load. 
Check Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer  after you get one 
of these crash to desktop and see if there's an application error.
I should point out that it's happened to me too, getting dumped to the 
desktop.  The event viewer display two error messages that are devoid of 
information.  It's only happened to me a couple times and only playing 
single player

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