A hot chip and a cool heat sink are both consistent with a poor thermal connection between them (paste misapplied or missing). Apply fresh paste and don't remove the heat sink afterward to see how it spread; if you do that you'll need to wipe it clean and start again.
Ken At 03:55 AM 8/22/2008 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Today I was able to buy an extra cooling fan and install it at the back of the case. This dropped the temps a little--to the low 60s for Temp1, and mid 50s for the cores, but I still get errors in the torture test. > >I noticed that the heat sink on the processor isn't even warm to the touch despite the high temps being reported by SpeedFan. Shouldn't it be getting fairly hot? > >Anyway, it looks like I will have to pursue extra cooling, when I have the time. Thanks for everyone's input. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
