Yea I've been using speed fan for a whil now. Nvidia 6600 runs hot according to Nvidia website and 60-70c idle can be normal but mine is usualy 60-65 even on load.
Also the 512 chip was giving me problems again and was plenty cool. But it seems like something else to me.
When I got the computer it had two 256mb sticks of ram. I bought a new stick of 1gb Patriot ram and had all kinds of problems. I returned it and got another and it worked well for several months until I purchased the second 1gb Kinston ram. At this point the Patriot ram tested bad so I exchanged it for 1gb Kinston ram. With my GFX card being 128mb it seems to put my computer over the 2gb ram limit and lots of problems. So I swapped my parents computer one of my 1gb and took their 512mb Kingston that is not more than 1 year old.
The board is kinda a bad design because the gfx card and the cpu are both very close to the ram. AGP slot being at the top.
It ran somewhat fine for a few months with 1gb and 512mb. Can this sustained temperature of 110F ruin the ram?
My board is saposed to take 2gb and the problems always seem to come using more than 1gb. Is there a setting or jumper somewhere that could be set wrong?
Thanks man I know I am long winded :p
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