Hi vaio

I'm relying on that northbridge temp of 29C to be the Ambient. When it reaches 29C I take the reading off the CPU.

Which is still at 46C with Arctic Silver 5

Maybe the temperature sensor on my motherboard isn't up to much but the claims for the various Silver Pastes don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

After this extensive test in the future I'm sticking with the standard easy to apply White Silicone Gloop.

Dave

Hello marysduby,
I am not sure how to interpret this. What does 45C stock mean? How are you measuring this temperature? In any event, 75C is too high a temperature for a CPU. We need to work on this.

mycrofth

I agree with you mycrofth - Go the methodical way marysduby. May require a liitlle more input and work, but when you are dealing with thermodynamics in a closed case, everything affects everything else, so there is more than one way to solve the problem, but only one good way to resolve the source of the problem

No pun intended

Got it, marysduby!

My bet is that your 2.2 Ghz Athlon 64 with the new heatsink and fans running at 75C is not making good contact with the heatsink. A properly seated heatsink of almost any size would lower the temperature. Do you have any installation instructions that came with the heatsink? If so, you might want to try removing and reinstalling it (using just a little white gloop to ensure good contact).

But if you are like me, you might prefer paying for a half hour of benchtime and have a local computer shop do the job and check the temperature. I still have a plastic tube of static RAM for cache under my computer table left over from the last time I fiddled seriously with a computer in the mid-1990s. Unless you do it often, the constantly changing pinouts can make you long for the good old days when all you had to do was cautiously wiggle a DIP chip into place, then push firmly.