On 26 Mar 2007 17:06:56 -0700, happymac.support@gmail.com
wrote:


>I checked the BIOS page. Unfortunately, it shows the same readings as
>PC Probe--around 70 at idle. Any suggestions on what I can do?

Determine which subsystem is suboptimal.
It's not hard, look over all aspects of the system, which is
interfering with optimal cooling? The only case where there
is something that wouldn't be obvious is if you didn't
realize the quality of heatsink needed or that 'sink wasn't
sitting on the CPU good, in which case you'd remove it,
clean off thermal interface material, apply tiny bit of
heatsink grease and reattach.


>Maybe a
>fan is failing, as I said in one of my previous posts:
>
>>i have noticed something though. Before from
>>when I got the sytem to 3 months ago there was a sound of something (i
>>am assuming its a fan) that revved up and down. Now, the fan noise is
>>consistent and stays the same. Maybe, just maybe the system was a bit
>>louder before.

Well are any spinning at an especially low(er) speed or not?
That should be pretty easy to determine just by looking at
them, if not an RPM readout.


>
>I honestly dont know. What do you think?

That you have not adequately described exactly what all your
system's cooling subsystems are like. We can't see the
system.


>I checked on the ASUS page
>for my motherboard and there is nothing about cooling issues or
>anything. Oh, by the way, I found out the number of fans I have. here
>is the info:
>
>1) Power Supply Fan
>2) GPU Fan (on the graphics card)
>3) CPU Fan @ around 4115RPM
>4) Case Fan (attached on the inside of the case)
>
>No idea if thats enough. As far as I can tell, all the ones listed
>here are spinning. there is air coming out of the Power supply fan,
>the GPU fan is spinning, the Case Fan I can see is spinning, and
>obviously the CPU fan is going too.


Describe in detail what case, what fans, where they are
mounted, what obstructions there are to each compared to
having only a large open hole. This includes the case front
bezel.

Describe room ambient temp during these temp readings.

In short, tell us about your system and environment.
Something about it is different. Only by thorough
description will that become evident.