Alley,

I'm so glad you didn't ignore the problem like many people do. I'm also pleased that you're getting some progress on your fan problem and that you won't have to be without your computer for several weeks.

I had been going to suggest you ensure the case fans were blowing the right direction (the front one blowing "in" and the rear one blowing "out"), but not spinning at is also a problem, obviously.

You also want to be sure your fan is properly mounted and is in solid contact with the CPU. It needs to be flat and securely pinned in on all four corners. (You won't see it, but there is also a tiny bit of "thermal grease" between the CPU and the fan. It fills any tiny air gaps and helps heat flow from your CPU to your fan.

Your temporary solution is excellent, by the way, and you should be okay until everything is sorted out.

I have a home-built system based on an Intel i7-3770k and an Asus motherboard. I'm really happy with the Asus board. I can control my case fans via the motherboard, but my daughter has a lower-budget version of the same board, and the only fan it can control is the CPU fan. I like the temperature-controlled fans because they are very quiet most of the time, and spin faster only when needed.

Both systems will perform an Intel-sanctioned "automatic overclock" from 3.5GHz to 3.9GHz when the CPU load justifies it, and as long the the temperatures allow it. It also "idles" at 1.6 GHz when I doing stuff like typing this post.



P.S.
I am not impressed with Geek Squad at Best Buy. All they do is install software like MS Office, maybe install a hard drive, and other extremely basic stuff. I had a problem with a brand-new eMachine computer several years ago (the SD card reader didn't work). Their solution was to send it to the manufacturer, estimating a 6-week turnaround. I called the eMachine support directly, explained the problem, and they shipped a new component directly to me, free of charge. They didn't even want the old one back. I ended up being very pleased with eMachine (known for low-cost computers) and very disillusioned about Geek Squad. More recently, I wanted to test a power supply. Their test was to plug it into another customer's motherboard and see if it worked. Yikes! I now own my own $15 power supply tester.

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if you have an Nvidia card , the big suspect in this is the Nvidia driver - there have been posters on Geoforce / Nvidias site claiming the new drivers are actually burning out their video cards from running so hot. I would not be surprised if it turns out that what you are experiencing is a result of this. My computer was overheating like crazy too, once I rolled back it started running normal again and hasn't shut down for a few days now - my case fan even stopped making strange noises.

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What version did you roll back to, the 310 version?  I am there but I guess I won't really know what's what til I get the new fan and motherboard installed.

Alley

I'm still on the 314 version, but losing confidence in testing anymore because the computer isn't overheating / shutting down - it's still not running as well as it did before but at least the chances of burn out are apparently less.

sorry to hear about the mb btw, that's harsh!! I hope you get your system fully up and running again soon!!

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