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Heatsink/Thermal grease
Name: Metthew Date: July 14, 2004 at 22:26:31 Pacific OS: 98se CPU/Ram: 1.4/256mb
Comment:
I have benn running at almost 71 C and that is too high so i need to get a new heat sink and new thermal grease. I have an AMD 1.3 ghz What should i get? iv herd copper core is good but is it. What is the best? heatsink/grease
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Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 14, 2004 at 23:32:11 Pacific
Reply:
Things that will make a bigger difference than the type of thermal paste:
Clean the heatsink/fan assembly with compressed air to remove the accumulated dust.
Remove the heatsink/fan assembly and clean off the old paste. You may need a solvent like lighter fluid if it's gotten hard. Put new paste on but just a little bit. Too much is not good.
Get a larger cooling fan that will blow a higher volume of air.
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Response Number 2
Name: Metthew Date: July 15, 2004 at 01:24:36 Pacific
Reply:
Okay I will order the parts,thank you Dave.
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Response Number 3
Name: tommo Date: July 15, 2004 at 03:56:06 Pacific
Reply:
i have an amd 1.3gig cpu in a machine with win98se ,, running a copper base cooler thermaltake volcano 11 ..cpu temp is 36C,,
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: July 15, 2004 at 17:14:00 Pacific
Reply:
The odds are that you have a perfectly good heatsink/fan now. If you Follow DAVEINCAPS advice and clean things up, you probably don't even need a bigger fan. But make sure your case temperature is not too high. Check your power supply fan and case fans (if you have them).
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