This could be due to other components on the motherboard overheating. My suggestion would be to get a separate fan for the hot areas of the board. There are small fans made for this purpose that can be pointed to arbitrary positions on the motherboard. There are usually affixed to a screwhole and are situated at the end of a bendable rod.
Additionally, there should be temperature monitoring for other components such as chipset. It would be worth looking at these temperatures to see if you can pinpoint where the overheating is coming from. I hope this helps, Ben On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 08:41:23PM -0700, David Madden wrote: > I built a media PC with a Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN FM2+ MiniITX motherboard > and 3.7GHz AMD A10-7850K Kaveri CPU. I'm not overclocking or anything, > and it seems to work OK for compute jobs (building kernels, etc.) but > when my wife uses it to watch streaming video, it often crashes after > 10-15 minutes. It's a power-myself-off crash, and the RAM feels quite > hot to the touch, so I sort of suspect a temperature problem, but who > knows? The CPU fan doesn't seem to be going full speed when this > happens, so it might be some sort of control problem / failure to use > all cooling power when necessary. > > Does anybody know where to begin debugging this? It's Ubuntu 14.0, > which is many versions beyond when I used to be able to understand > what's going on. > > Thanks, > -- > Mersenne Law LLP · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 > - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - > 9600 S.W. Oak Street · Suite 500 · Tigard, Oregon 97223 > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
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