Hi,
With regard to the arctic silver II, the temperature
decrease is half true, half myth! It might decrease
the temperature of your cpu only if you're using a
very poor quality thermal paste. In my case, I was
using a silicon based thermal paste that came with my
Vantec 6030 heat-sink-fan, and I saw only 1 celcius
decrease in temperature when I switched to using
arctic silver II. If you are in need of new thermal
paste, then maybe you should buy it. Otherwise, there
is no point. It cant perform miracles, so you can say
that I was dissapointed. Give this url a read and
decide for yourself:
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cooling/compound/
Sinan
--- Lourens Steenkamp
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:29:17 -0500 Jesse Marlin
wrote: How cool? I have Athlon XP 1800+ on a Gigabyte
GA-7VTXE MB and the
bios reports it at around 54 degrees celsius. I looked up in the AMD online manual and it claims the max is 90 degrees celcius. I took a lot of precautions when building it, and thought it would be running cooler. One part that worries me is that I can actually touch the heatsink. What kinda of temp are you reading on yours?
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That is comfortable for this CPU. In "another O/S" <grimace> (have to get a driver for my sensor chip), in the same case (AOpen full tower with the recommended Coolmaster heatsink on each CPU and extraction fan for the hdd's) my XP 1600+ peaks at about 51 degrees C, my T-Bird 1.2G was peaking at 62 degrees C. I am trying to get hold of some Arctic Silver II thermal compound, according to tests that I have seen, this alone should decrease the temp by 4 or 5 degress C. High performance cooler units are difficult to get hold of here - Third World country stuff, so I have to try other things?!
Have fun with your new system.
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