[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? > Yes, if the chip is hot, the heat sink should be too. As others have said, it sounds like your heat sink wasn't properly installed.
D > Anyway, it looks like I will have to pursue extra cooling, when I have the > time. Thanks for everyone's input. > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Jeff Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Thanks to everyone who responded. Tomorrow I'm going to look for a new fan >>> to >>> >> put at the back of the system. There doesn't seem to be much outward airflow >> right now, so that's what I'm going to tackle. If it doesn't work, then I >> may be >> stuck because I don't think I'm up to the job of applying a new heat sink. >> >>> >>> >> It's not as bad as I made it out to be.... but you do need to be >> careful. Air bubbles or dead spaces with no coverage between the die >> and the sink are Very Bad Things (tm). My guess is that you need a >> better cooler than INtel stock, which means applying a new heat sink. >> Work with the guys at FrozenCPU.com. They'll sell you what you need >> (basically, Arctic Silver 5 paste and a decent heat sink). >> >> If you carefully follow the instructions that come with both the heat >> sink and that are on the Arctic Silver website for the application of >> the paste (i.e. do *not* try to spread it around yourself! Put down a >> single thin stripe in the location and of the size recommended, and let >> the pressure of the tightening down of the heat sink do the spreading), >> you will be fine. >> >> Jeff >> _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
