On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:24 +1100, Mark Walkom wrote: > Well the grease is needed as it facilitates a higher efficiency of heat > transfer from the chip to the heatsink. > > Is this a laptop or a desktop PC? > What are the CPU and GPU chips?
Desktop. The CPU fan has been removed and replaced twice. Under load it jumps from 30 to 40 and with a hot ambient (no aircon at all) climbs to 80 and stops. Right now sitting on 29 and 26. The Nvidia card has a lot of cowling around the fans so I wonder how clogged it will be. Previously I had carpet and was in Campsie which was bad for dust. In summary: - I will try and clean the heatsink on the Nvidia without removing it and no worry too much. - I will clean off grey goo on CPU and replace it with a thermal paste. Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
