CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
Five years ago, I built myself a new PC.
This morning, the CPU fan finally gave up the ghost.
It didn't do it all at once. In fact, it was still making about 100 RPM, but that was just not enough to keep my AMD Phenom II 3.4 GHz six core monster cool. It did, however, take me completely by surprise when my desktop just shutdown. It didn't even do a proper shutdown, it just turned off.
Not knowing why it turned off, I gave it a slow five count and hit the power button to reboot it. Maybe it was a power fluctuation. I'd been having problems with Firefox 35.0.1 and wanted to install the newest (36.0.4 at the time), and see if that made my web experience smoother. Still, I paid close attention to my hardware system monitor (gkrellm) when it came back up. After a nice, slow, leisurely reboot, the CPU temp came back up at 108°C!!!
That meant that it had to have been over 110°C before it shat itself. That was when I really eyeballed the CPU fan (case sits on my desk with the side open) and noticed its lethargic rate of spin. I quickly hit the software shutdown and brought it down in a controlled fashion. Still, I thought, "That's hot enough to boil water. There's no way a CPU can survive that kind of temps." and I reached out and touched the tip of my CPU cooler's heat pipes with the tip of my finger, and I swear I heard a sizzle before jerking my hand away. Yes. It was actually that hot. And I have a mark on my fingertip to remember it by.
ATM, I have a spare three-wire 90 mm fan bread-tied in place and holding the temp at 44°C steady. All six cores are working fine. There aren't any error messages in /var/adm/messages to indicate otherwise (aside from some asshat trying to break into my root account through ssh. Not gonna work, poopstain!) I've ordered a water CPU cooler from Novum Ovum (NewEgg.com), which should be here by the weekend. Then, I get to cut a portal in the back of the case for the coolant lines to run.
Gonna shut down now and go to bed so I don't temp fate and wind up with a molten CPU by morning. Oh, and Firefox 37.0 is installed now.
This morning, the CPU fan finally gave up the ghost.
It didn't do it all at once. In fact, it was still making about 100 RPM, but that was just not enough to keep my AMD Phenom II 3.4 GHz six core monster cool. It did, however, take me completely by surprise when my desktop just shutdown. It didn't even do a proper shutdown, it just turned off.
Not knowing why it turned off, I gave it a slow five count and hit the power button to reboot it. Maybe it was a power fluctuation. I'd been having problems with Firefox 35.0.1 and wanted to install the newest (36.0.4 at the time), and see if that made my web experience smoother. Still, I paid close attention to my hardware system monitor (gkrellm) when it came back up. After a nice, slow, leisurely reboot, the CPU temp came back up at 108°C!!!
That meant that it had to have been over 110°C before it shat itself. That was when I really eyeballed the CPU fan (case sits on my desk with the side open) and noticed its lethargic rate of spin. I quickly hit the software shutdown and brought it down in a controlled fashion. Still, I thought, "That's hot enough to boil water. There's no way a CPU can survive that kind of temps." and I reached out and touched the tip of my CPU cooler's heat pipes with the tip of my finger, and I swear I heard a sizzle before jerking my hand away. Yes. It was actually that hot. And I have a mark on my fingertip to remember it by.
ATM, I have a spare three-wire 90 mm fan bread-tied in place and holding the temp at 44°C steady. All six cores are working fine. There aren't any error messages in /var/adm/messages to indicate otherwise (aside from some asshat trying to break into my root account through ssh. Not gonna work, poopstain!) I've ordered a water CPU cooler from Novum Ovum (NewEgg.com), which should be here by the weekend. Then, I get to cut a portal in the back of the case for the coolant lines to run.
Gonna shut down now and go to bed so I don't temp fate and wind up with a molten CPU by morning. Oh, and Firefox 37.0 is installed now.
