Dharam said...
>I have a AMD 233 mounted on a super 7 motherboard and a decent cooling
>fan and a layer of thermal paste in between. However, the 233 heats
>close to 61c and higher and then the system stops. What else, if
>anything, can I do to reduce this heat? The power supply fan works fine.

My 2c worth...

I have an AMD K6-2 which caused me a little trouble and heat was suggested as being the problem. I was told to try a program called "Rain", same authors have a similar program called "Waterfall". I installed the software that runs an algorithym that parks CPU processes that are not needed and effectively reduces CPU temp. I was skeptical, but now swear by it and have a number of colleagues who believe this is a good product for reducing freezes, BSOD's etc, often caused by ncreased CPU heat.

You can get it here...

http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/Benchmarking_and_Tune_Up/Review_18382_index.html

Regards Roger.

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