The Asus PC Probe tells me my motherboard is too hot. It turns to red and alerts me when I get to around 45-52 C. My computer has 4 fans, two going in, two going out, so it shouldn't be getting too hot.
What I want to know is what is a good temperature I should expect my motherboard to be at. I am afraid I am running too hot.
I built the computer earlier this year, and my motherboard is an ASUS P5N-E.
Is it just your motherboard temps or your CPU temps as well? Intel stock cooling is known to be shitty. I'd also check to make sure the chipset fan is spinning.
The CPU fan is spinning. The fans are all spinning. And my CPU Temps are staying green on the probe, so I figure they are fine. But my mobo temps keep goin over.
52C isn't that bad, are you sure PC probe's temperature treshold alerts aren't set up wrong? if yes, you might wanna increase the treshold to something like 60°C
That's still pretty high temps for the motherboard.
How's the temperature of the room it's running in? That can affect it. Also, how is airflow around the case? Do you have the fans pushing air directly into a wall or anything? That will affect it. I would also take a can of compressed air to the innards and dust everything out.
The threshold was originally set to 40, I bumped it up to 45 and it is still going over. The room is commonly hotter than other rooms in the house and we have a lot of large things everywhere that really ruins airflow so that is probably it. The two fans bringing air in are in the back where there is a wall, but there is about 6 inches of space or a bit more. The fans blowing out are on the side and have much more space.
Ok, I finally got around to flipping the fans over last week. The temps did drop and remained low while playing a lot of games. Hovering around 40 now. Thanks for all the help everyone.
But new question same topic...
Would my motherboard's heat caused my computer to just shut off ecouple times while I played different before I switched the fans? And now after switching the fans, there haven't been any shut offs, but for some reason my computer freezes up sometimes, and I cannot connect to the internet. Well, firefox just won't bother to open (not sure why) and MSN Explorer can only get to the home screen (i don't use msn, just used it to download firefox).
Normally I wouldn't think that the Mobo temps and the random freezes would be related, but it all started right after I switched the fans. Also, not sure if this would link to anything, but I installed Avast! anti virus, since I was originally running a heavily outdated version of Norton.
use the Norton uninstaller from Symantec's website to be sure.
using multiple security programs simultaneously can cause major issues like endless loops, the programs fighting over rights etc. + Norton honestly is bloatware if you ask me, manufacturers preinstall it while it slows down their systems a lot.
