Suggestions please

General Computing Hardware & Networking
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Ok the weather is starting to get a bit warmer here ( not that you’d know from the howling wind outside ) and my shuttle ( sn85g4 v2 with athlon64 3400 ) is starting to over heat and crash again, so I’m looking at replacing it. Think the mobo has had it, after it played up last year I have to keep the top off and an 92mm fan blowing across the mobo.

Space is at a premium so i’m after something small that can sit on my desk and not take up much room. I use this as my main games rig and Boinc, so I don’t need loads of drive bays, but it has to run cool and be fairly quiet as I have 2 other machines in my room as well.

What do people recommend.

cheers

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Before you replace it, have you double checked the existing one? What temp is the CPU hitting under load? De-fluff the fan and inside. Maybe re-apply the thermal paste on CPU and northbridge in case the original has “gone off”. In the bios settings, turn up the fan speed(s) if possible but that is a balance between heat and noise.

Assuming the mobo is ok, downgrading to a sempron should run much cooler as I think most are on 90nm process where I think most s754 a64s were 130nm. Otherwise I’d probably go for a s939 CPU in another Shuttle to suit budget.