Ok so i got my sound card, and its awesome. I can't use my speakers beacuse they have some propriatory gateway connector bull****, but i have some good headphones.
Anyway, when I loaded up the comp and got everything loaded, the MP3's were studdering again, but not nearly as bad or much. I was wonder wtf was going on. It wasn't the software either. I tried 3 diffrent programs. Might be the drivers but i have the newest drivers for the Fortissimo III. It was hot as **** in my room, and i was playing BF1942. I know thats a system hog, and uses the CPU a lot. I specifically did this too see if the studdering would come back.
Seems to me that the studdering is caused by the CPU getting hot. Im listen to tunes right now flawlessly, and im running a software probe that came with my mobo. Says my CPU is about 105f. thats good, but I checked in the BIOS when I was having problems, and its said 125. The BIOS probe seems to detect on the high side, but 125? I have Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB. I don't think 125 is that bad, but i think remembering that 120 was about when you start having probs. I got my room temp down and its working good again, and thank god winter is coming.
So.. my questions are...
Is 125 about 52c too hot for my CPU and this is in a hot room. Haven't tested BF1942 temps in a cooler room.
and, which is should i trust? The software probe or the BIOS. The mobo temp in the BIOS and software both concure, but the CPU temps differ.
Im going to go check what the BIOS says my temp is, the software says is 104 now.
The BIOS says 120F. ehh i don't trust that. All i've done is web browse and play mp3s, wich uses less than 3% cpu. anyway, thanks in advance.
oh and my heatsink isn't the best thing in the world, but its better than the stock one.
Anyway, when I loaded up the comp and got everything loaded, the MP3's were studdering again, but not nearly as bad or much. I was wonder wtf was going on. It wasn't the software either. I tried 3 diffrent programs. Might be the drivers but i have the newest drivers for the Fortissimo III. It was hot as **** in my room, and i was playing BF1942. I know thats a system hog, and uses the CPU a lot. I specifically did this too see if the studdering would come back.
Seems to me that the studdering is caused by the CPU getting hot. Im listen to tunes right now flawlessly, and im running a software probe that came with my mobo. Says my CPU is about 105f. thats good, but I checked in the BIOS when I was having problems, and its said 125. The BIOS probe seems to detect on the high side, but 125? I have Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB. I don't think 125 is that bad, but i think remembering that 120 was about when you start having probs. I got my room temp down and its working good again, and thank god winter is coming.
So.. my questions are...
Is 125 about 52c too hot for my CPU and this is in a hot room. Haven't tested BF1942 temps in a cooler room.
and, which is should i trust? The software probe or the BIOS. The mobo temp in the BIOS and software both concure, but the CPU temps differ.
Im going to go check what the BIOS says my temp is, the software says is 104 now.
The BIOS says 120F. ehh i don't trust that. All i've done is web browse and play mp3s, wich uses less than 3% cpu. anyway, thanks in advance.
oh and my heatsink isn't the best thing in the world, but its better than the stock one.
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