gf3 ti 500 athon xp 1800 a7v333 sound blaster 350w PS aluminum case 1 side fan windows xp 256 ddr 333 2 hard drives 1 cdrw I have been thinking and i think the reason it is so hot is because i put the intire tube of thermal paste on my CPU. Don't you think this would make it hot? how do i remove it?

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Well, maybe it's too late to respond, but I'll give it a shot anyhow. If you used up the whole tube of thermal compound - you definitely need to remove most of that stuff since you're only supposed to be using a fine film on the center of the processor (the little square in the center of it). Here's what I would do, for proper removal and cleaning: 1. Unplug everything and remove your heatsink, folowed by removing the CPU itself. 2. With a papertowel, remove all of the residue from the processor first - all of the residue which can be EASILY removed, that is. 3. Follow up with some rubbing alcohol or a damp bit of papertowel that's wrapped around a q-tip. You don't want to use just the q-tip, since you'd end up with q-tip crap, stuck all over everything. 4. Do the same on the bottom of the heatsink. If possible, try to preserve yourself a little bit of heatsink compound, so that you can reuse it later. 5. If you used rubbing alcohol, let all parts sit for a couple of hours, to ensure that absolutely everything has dissipated properly. Better safe than sorry, you might even want to wait overnight. 6. Put a thin film of heatsink compund on the processor, as described earlier. 7. Put everything back together, and see what happens. 8. If you need help with installing the heatsink properly and safely, look for the post where some guy asked about chaging the heatsink. That was the 12th or the 13th of August. Hey Intel, AMD rulez!

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