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Althlon 64 Retail Heatsink
Hi,
When you buy a retail athlon, with the heatsink and fan, do you need to put any more of the grey gueewy stuff (whatever it's called) on the bottom of the heatsink? My heatsink has a nice little pacth about an inch square on the botton and I'm wondering that's enough? Thanks Paul |
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When you buy a retail athlon, with the heatsink and fan, do you need to put
any more of the grey gueewy stuff (whatever it's called) on the bottom of the heatsink? My heatsink has a nice little pacth about an inch square on the botton and I'm wondering that's enough? It's called thermal compound, and you don't need it unless you remove the heatsink and put it back on (the patch is single use only, if you remove the heatsink you'll have to scrape it off with a credit card, and apply your own compound). Regards, Chris |
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:43:41 -0000, "Not Known"
wrote: Hi, When you buy a retail athlon, with the heatsink and fan, do you need to put any more of the grey gueewy stuff (whatever it's called) on the bottom of the heatsink? My heatsink has a nice little pacth about an inch square on the botton and I'm wondering that's enough? Yes, that's enough. Either leave it alone OR clean it all off completely and apply a different heatsink grease, which might gain you a couple degrees. |
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OK excellent.
How do I measure though the temp of the CPU? I've ordered an Antec P160 case http://www.xpcgear.com/antecp160.html which has a front LED swivel panel which amongst other things has two temp probes. Where should I put probes? "kony" wrote in message ... On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:43:41 -0000, "Not Known" wrote: Hi, When you buy a retail athlon, with the heatsink and fan, do you need to put any more of the grey gueewy stuff (whatever it's called) on the bottom of the heatsink? My heatsink has a nice little pacth about an inch square on the botton and I'm wondering that's enough? Yes, that's enough. Either leave it alone OR clean it all off completely and apply a different heatsink grease, which might gain you a couple degrees. |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:20:12 -0000, "Not Known"
wrote: OK excellent. How do I measure though the temp of the CPU? I've ordered an Antec P160 case http://www.xpcgear.com/antecp160.html which has a front LED swivel panel which amongst other things has two temp probes. Where should I put probes? Measure temp with the bios health monitor or windows software available on motherboard CD or downloaded from manufacturer. A temp probe can't begin to get near that accuracy. Put the case probes wherever you want them... One could measure video card temp if your card doesn't have that functionality, and the other an ambient case air temp towards the middle-to-top, or whatever else you have temp concerns about. If you were to change to heatsink grease, it might be a lot easier to do so NOW, not after you install heatsink and run system. At that point the heatsink will be stuck to the CPU, sometimes making it difficult to remove. Additionally you then have to get it off of the CPU too, and it doesn't just wipe off, may need scraped with a soft plastic tool (like a credit card) and some petroleum solvent. Much easier to just get if off the sink before it's used the first time. |
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Ok thanks, I've put it on now.
"kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:20:12 -0000, "Not Known" wrote: OK excellent. How do I measure though the temp of the CPU? I've ordered an Antec P160 case http://www.xpcgear.com/antecp160.html which has a front LED swivel panel which amongst other things has two temp probes. Where should I put probes? Measure temp with the bios health monitor or windows software available on motherboard CD or downloaded from manufacturer. A temp probe can't begin to get near that accuracy. Put the case probes wherever you want them... One could measure video card temp if your card doesn't have that functionality, and the other an ambient case air temp towards the middle-to-top, or whatever else you have temp concerns about. If you were to change to heatsink grease, it might be a lot easier to do so NOW, not after you install heatsink and run system. At that point the heatsink will be stuck to the CPU, sometimes making it difficult to remove. Additionally you then have to get it off of the CPU too, and it doesn't just wipe off, may need scraped with a soft plastic tool (like a credit card) and some petroleum solvent. Much easier to just get if off the sink before it's used the first time. |
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