Hello, I recently bought Cool Drive 4 and I want it to give accurate readings of the temps. For the moment, I have one of the thin heat sensors that comes with the drive on the CPU heatsink. I was wondering if it was safe to put the heat sensor between the CPU and heatsink. I know I would have to re-apply the thermal paste etc.. but I remember reading it is not recommended to put anything between the heatsink and CPU even tho the heat sensors were designed for it. Also, I was wondering if there is a good guide for overclocking my CPU. Considering the CPU is running at a very low temp (30C idle), it probably won't hurt to go to 2.2ghz from 2.0ghz. Anyways, thanks in advance.

I'll answer the sensor question. No, not between the heatsink and cpu. Some choices may be to place the sensor just touching the heat spreader and secure it with a dab of good glue...in this case, arctic silver thermal adhesive might be a good choice. http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_thermal_adhesive.htm ...and only a very tiny amount. Because of the large number of pins on a very small amount of real estate, I wouldn't try to snake the sensor wires between rows of pins. That only leaves a chance of snaking the sensor wires under the socket, attaching the sensor to the cpu with kapton tape, and carefully getting the whole mess back into the motherboard socket. Your motherboard may or may not allow this; you'll need to find a large enough opening between the socket and motherboard to pull it off. Now I just have to say it again, never put anything between the processor and heatsink other than some kind of heatsink compound. Never...ever...for any reason... Skip