So a month ago I started having problems with my [old] PC. It was overheating, specifically the graphics card. The NVidia 470 had performed flawlessly up to that point and all of a sudden, at IDLE it was running at 79 C.
I was baffled, I tried cleaning it out; I took it apart and reseated the heat sink (scraped off the old paste and applied arctic silver), etc. Nothing worked. When I played games it got up to 100 C!!
So I decided, alright, I'll install MSI Afterburner and apply a custom fan plan (basically the thing was whistling along at about 60% to 70% to keep the temps at a reasonable value). This has been a great machine and has served me well, so I wiped it clean and reinstalled Windows 7 planning to give it to my son... and wouldn't you know it: The card was idling at 41 C. It had to be some kind of driver issue? I don't know. But now the machine is running great. I am updating Windows... perhaps if it starts overheating again I can roll back the updates to determine what caused the problem.
Anyway, Isaac is getting a smoking machine. Here are the relevant specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
8 GB RAM @ 1066
NVidia 470
I think Anabelle will get the Aluminum iMac and I'll maybe sell her G5 iMac on Craigslist or something.
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