Should I be worried?

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When I put on my CS:S lately everytime I play I hear a high revving sound but I don't know if it's the cpu or psu or what.

It gets ridiculously loud and stays like that until I shut down the game(s) and im wondering if theres anything to be worried about.

Im thinking maybe the cpu bc it's pretty much underpowered for my rig.

Any suggestions :confused:
 
It sounds more like your board's fan controller is getting busy when you start placing a load on system resources. Your supply is on the low side where it's own fan is probably getting busy there once a demand is placed on it as well. When you start the game up try listening to hear where the sound is loudest. That will give you an idea of which fan is cranking up.
 
The one thing I was going to add before was checking your temps. You can look in the bios at the hardware monitor there if the board has that feature as well as downloading SpeedFan for this. High cpu temps will see game and other crashes due to those eventually. A noisey fan is a sign of wear too. Have checked to see if you have a dust buildup inside?
 
My temps while gaming reach like 55c I think. I check temps all the time but Im gonna clean my cpu fan/heatsink if I find out how on earth to do it.
 
Buy a can of compressed air generally sold as cans of air cleaners. You have to take the case out in an open area and go lightly inside when blasting any dust and debris found out of it. Is that a stock hsf? Most likely. What do you have for case fans? One rear 80mm typical or additional front, side cover?
 
PC eye said:
Buy a can of compressed air generally sold as cans of air cleaners. You have to take the case out in an open area and go lightly inside when blasting any dust and debris found out of it. Is that a stock hsf? Most likely. What do you have for case fans? One rear 80mm typical or additional front, side cover?
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Ya it's stock for now.

I have 1 front fan.
 
You can always add a rear one as well there to move the heated air out. Even with a Zalman CNPS 9500 I have to blow the dust off of the fins every so many weeks to keep that clean. The stock fans are quite a bit smaller in size and always get cluttered faster on most. The Pentium Ds won't run as hot as P4s by a long shot but 55C is still a little warm especially if you are not ocing anything.

Despite how quiet the 92mm fan is on the Zalman model you can still hear when it gets cranked up when I put a good on the cpu. If your board has overheating protection that will crank the rpms up to keep it from overheatiing. Besides adding a fan or two to get the air moving eventually you will want to move into a faster cpu and even a better cpu cooling setup. But that will come in time there.
 
Alright I found out it's the cpu fan revving when I play games. So would taking it +heatsink apart and cleaning it well help with that?
 
hpi said:
Alright I found out it's the cpu fan revving when I play games. So would taking it +heatsink apart and cleaning it well help with that?
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it certainly won't hurt(as long as you know how to dissasemble it and put it back together of course) just rember you may well have to repaste the heatsink to the cpu to maintain effective heat transfer to the heat sink fins, the fins are no doubt clogged with dust which can cause a considerable heat dissapation problem.
Did i read that you don't have a rear fan in your case? if that's so, you REALLY should consider getting one-you NEED to get all that hot air out of the case and cool air circulating, also are your cables inside tidy or just(like a lot of overheated pc's) all over the place? plus if you are using IDE leads then get the round ones as they allow for better airflow through the system, one last thing.... on the rear of the case, are their any pci slot blanking plates missing as you really need to seal them up to create as much of a vacuum as possible inside the case which helps to force the hot air out where YOU want it to go(through your fans)

Just a few helpfull tips to keep in mind. :rolleyes: :)
 
microchipper said:
it certainly won't hurt(as long as you know how to dissasemble it and put it back together of course) just rember you may well have to repaste the heatsink to the cpu to maintain effective heat transfer to the heat sink fins, the fins are no doubt clogged with dust which can cause a considerable heat dissapation problem.
Did i read that you don't have a rear fan in your case? if that's so, you REALLY should consider getting one-you NEED to get all that hot air out of the case and cool air circulating, also are your cables inside tidy or just(like a lot of overheated pc's) all over the place? plus if you are using IDE leads then get the round ones as they allow for better airflow through the system, one last thing.... on the rear of the case, are their any pci slot blanking plates missing as you really need to seal them up to create as much of a vacuum as possible inside the case which helps to force the hot air out where YOU want it to go(through your fans)

Just a few helpfull tips to keep in mind. :rolleyes: :)
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uh Lol I took off the side of my case so I only have 1 side on so the air pretty much comes out but im waiting for a rear fan so I can put the side back on.

Ah my cables are tidy/messy :P

Hm il take those tips in mind, thanks.
 
To clean the cpu fan all you generally need is a can of air cleaner. You shouldn't have to remove the hsf unless the thermal pad is going. The lack of a air flow is one problem to look into there by getting the largest fan for the rear exhaust. When you get more air flowing drawing in the cooler as well as blowing the heated out you'll probably see the cpu temps drop a little too.

To give you a quick example of that the last case here saw board temps climb higher then the cpu's with the Zalman on. The two 80mm case fans, one rear and one top, didn't quite do the job. When putting the new board, cpu, and everything else into the new case with a 140mm front intake, a 120mm rear, and then adding two 120s on the side cover the board temps dropped from 46-48C right down to 31C. The cpu 44-46C then dropped to 33C for the idle. The increased air flow made the big deal there.
 
hpi said:
uh Lol I took off the side of my case so I only have 1 side on so the air pretty much comes out but im waiting for a rear fan so I can put the side back on.

Ah my cables are tidy/messy :P

Hm il take those tips in mind, thanks.
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you would think taking off the side panel would help wouldn't you? well it doesn't always quite work like that as you can see from the temps you are getting, unless you sit a desk fan next to it
 
microchipper said:
you would think taking off the side panel would help wouldn't you? well it doesn't always quite work like that as you can see from the temps you are getting, unless you sit a desk fan next to it
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It gets way hotter with the side on. I checked.
 
That's from the lack of good air flow and no rear exhaust to blow out the hot air! Your holding that in despite the front intake. If you can mount a 120mm on the rear even with an adapter that will help see those go down. You idle temp should then be down in the low 40s with the stock hsf there.
 
PC eye said:
That's from the lack of good air flow and no rear exhaust to blow out the hot air! Your holding that in despite the front intake. If you can mount a 120mm on the rear even with an adapter that will help see those go down. You idle temp should then be down in the low 40s with the stock hsf there.
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thank you for explaining that PC EYE, at least YOU understand what i was trying to say :)
 
microchipper said:
thank you for explaining that PC EYE, at least YOU understand what i was trying to say :)
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You read what I went through when putting a new board, cpu, video card into the old case with the two 80mm fans there. The 939 boards run warmer then the old Socket A models due to the new power distribution on the newer boards. With the 754s and up for AMD and P4s and newer for Intel you definitely want to cool system temps more even while the cpus draw less power. Their heat tolerance is now lower. Instead of 85-90C you are now seeing 60-70C max.! If you go to 74C... :eek: !!!

That happened with the last cpu here when the cpu fan didn't make it. The cpu sidn't either when it went d.. o... a... a month later with the new cooler on it. taps please! :(
 
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