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[slim_boy_fat]

Mine freezes from time to time and with increasing frequency - renewing the thermal paste usually sees it OK again.

 

[gaz1]

Mine freezes from time to time and with increasing frequency - renewing the thermal paste usually sees it OK again.

at this point id be considering a new hard drive as thats normally a prewarning its going down

over heating on your pc expect it to shut down and if you try to power it up it wont caused by dust in the air movements around your pc board or cpu cooler or fan not working inside of them not forgetting many gamer pcs use extra fans to boot that hot air out of the case faster

 

[ukracer]

Update:

I always like to let those that have offered help know how things have went so....

I have now transferred everything I don't want to lose to an external drive and also moved the same stuff to the internal mirrored drives in the old pc, so have 3 back ups.

The new pc motherboard has two spare Sat A connectors so all is well there, if need be it will take my back up drives.

The new PC fired up after sitting in the cupboard for a year with no problem, it has open office on it which seems ok but I will probably want MS office simply because that's what I am used to, no rush now because of the following.

I took the side off the old pc, removed the cooling fan and heatsink, hoovered it all over and applied new thermal paste, checked all connections and gave everything a good tap with the screwdriver handle....as you do.

The old pc is now working perfectly, piece of cake this pc technician stuff

So will run the old one for a while and see how it goes, a question I have is what is the difference with thermal paste, the one I got was 99p delivered from ebay (UK seller) but going back to order some more I notice a massive variation in price...is there an equally massive variation in quality and performance?

The only issue was when I switched off the new pc it did 43 updates , took nearly an hour .

Not sure about how good paste is in relation to how much it costs. But its becoming a minefield buying anything off ebay and making sense of prices....or indeed postage times.

It might be better in the chinese thread but i just tried to buy a PCI USB 3.0 off ebay and i whittled it down to 27 using the in the UK tab.
From then i tried to find out if i could get one delivered on friday or saturday.

To cut a long story short the earliest i could get one was a WEEK ON FRIDAY. So i double checked and although it says the item is in the uk all the legal information is in china and most from one company.

PC world dont even have the card i need with an internal 19 pin header......all local independant shops long gone......all roads are starting to point to amazon sadly.

 

[rtbcomp]

Maplins sell heat conductive paste at very different prices, I used the cheapest on the machine I found in my dustbin - the CPU fan packed up and it closed down after a couple of minutes.

 

[gaz1]

we just get this

https://www.cclonline.com/category/444/PC-Components/Fans-Cooling/Thermal-Compounds/

https://www.cclonline.com/search/?q=thermal+paste

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and if you try to power it up it wont

It always comes back to life and can run for hours afterwards. Some days it'll freeze after 30 mins on.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I take it you have backups?

A timely reminder........... But there's nothing crucial on the machine, just used for browsing etc so only 'Favourites' etc would be lost if it died completely.