Warp wrote:
>   I think that's too much. Many systems I have seen have been configured
> for an immediate emergency shutdown if the CPU temperature exceed something
> like 85 degrees. (If it reaches those temperatures something must be really
> wrong. Maybe the CPU fan died.)

I tried the demo of The Ball on Steam, set it at full screen 1080, and the 
machine powered down in about 3 minutes, apparently from overheating but I 
didn't get any message to that affect on booting up again. Tried it again a 
few hours later, windowed down to 800x600 and got about 10 minutes in before 
it shut off again.

I think the graphics card may be underventilated (as all my slots are full), 
but I've never had that problem with anything else (altho I can definitely 
hear the fan spinning up when I'm gaming (at least other people's games)). 
The GPU itself seemed rather scortching hot when I opened it up to check on 
the dustiness.

I'm wondering if it's worth pulling the card out and visually inspecting the 
surface and/or blowing it cleaner than I can with the card in place or 
something.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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