Yes, the fan is plugged in, and Its in the only way it can fit in, because the heatsink clips only fit in one way. I figured out it was the programs, because even if I quickly restart it to check the temp in the bios after playing Bf2 for 30min on MAX settings, the CPU is still at 52 degrees or so idle. Im still worried, 52 idle seems high. Would Artic silver help any? I heard AMD's heatsink/fans are decent. Everything runs fine and there has been no restarts, so if its safe enough to use it for casual gaming, then I will probably just wait for now...
Oh....this isn't too important because my computer runs fine the way it is...but if anyone could help out it would be appreciated...
My ram is 3200, 400mhz ram, but it only runs at 333 paired with a amd64 Venice 3000+ CPU. I dont think there is a way to change it higher in the bios, but then again I haven't been poking around the bios too much.... I have 3 sticks...1 1gb stick and 2 512mb sticks. All the SAME ram, same brand, speed etc.....
One more thing....
I downloaded an updated bios for my mobo, it came as a bin file...now what?