AMD Atholon 1.2 - Overheating - Beeping

[sifguy1980]

Anytime I play Diablo 2 or any FPS after about 5 minutes my computer starts to beeeep loudly and my frames per second drop from 90 to like 5 and the games run slowly, but when I am idle on XP everything is ok with no problems. What can I do to improve my cpu cooling? Better yet is the loud beeping the actual CPU overheating? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Difficult to say, as you didn't say which mainboard and which graphics card you have.

 

[sifguy1980]

asus motherboard and a geforce2mx 32mb video card

 

[sifguy1980]

bueller?

 

[sifguy1980]

New fan? coolant cream?

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

The beeping does sound like CPU overheating - have you checked that the CPU fan works and heatsink is in place and isn't covered with dust ?

 

[sifguy1980]

Well there is a fan and there was A LOT of dust, think if I buy a new and better heatsink not one from 2 years ago and get some thermo cream everything should be ok?

 

[StormBringer]

Originally posted by sifguy1980
Well there is a fan and there was A LOT of dust, think if I buy a new and better heatsink not one from 2 years ago and get some thermo cream everything should be ok?

I think if you clean all that dust out, it will be much better.

 

[sifguy1980]

Ok i will test and let you all know

 

[Moimit]

hey also look at your cpu voltage.