Artic silver

SiriusB said:
As for the AS5, I think it takes about 200 hours before it is fully burned in, so to speak. I believe it requires x-number of heating and cooling cycles. All this info can be found on Arctic Silver's website so I suggest you start reading.

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Yeah i am runnig Sandra burn in now this should make the cpu temps go up and down so should be ok, tbh though even after 200 hours i cant see the temp dropping 5 oc. :(

Also need to find a temp probe me thinks although thiscould be costly. :(
 
SiriusB said:
Temp probes aren't very expensive. :)

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Well I forgot that I have some temp sensors on my fan control unit I will use one of them. :)

Hope this works ok.
 
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I put a temperature probe over the core of the cpu between the processor and the heatsink which obviously affected cooling as the system was reporting temps of 70 degrees whereas the temperature probe display was showing 55 degrees (15 degrees lower).

could it be possible that the motherboard was reading the temps correctly for my old venice, but is now reading the opty temps 15 degrees out.

this would mean my load temps were around 48 degrees. this to me seems likely as the heatsink is only warm to the touch, certainly nowhere near the stated operating temperature of my cpu.
 
cymatty said:
I put a temperature probe over the core of the cpu between the processor and the heatsink which obviously affected cooling as the system was reporting temps of 70 degrees whereas the temperature probe display was showing 55 degrees (15 degrees lower).

could it be possible that the motherboard was reading the temps correctly for my old venice, but is now reading the opty temps 15 degrees out.

this would mean my load temps were around 48 degrees. this to me seems likely as the heatsink is only warm to the touch, certainly nowhere near the stated operating temperature of my cpu.
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no it means the outside of your cpu was 55c. the core when under a heat spreader will typically run 9-10c hotter than a probe on the outside of the spreader, and the cpu's probe is right inside the core;)

furthermore, putting the probe between the spreader and the heatsink will effect cooling...for the worse. if you break the bond betwn the cpu and heatsink, the heatsink won t cool it efficiantly and chances are the heatsink will be clooer than it should be.
 
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james.miller said:
no it means the outside of your cpu was 55c. the core when under a heat spreader will typically run 9-10c hotter than a probe on the outside of the spreader, and the cpu's probe is right inside the core;)
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Even so then it is 5-7oc out still which means the temps are getting close to being ok :) So instead of it being 60oc the cpu is actually around 54oc which is ok as my room is 30oc.

james.miller said:
furthermore, putting the probe between the spreader and the heatsink will effect cooling...for the worse. if you break the bond betwn the cpu and heatsink, the heatsink won t cool it efficiantly and chances are the heatsink will be clooer than it should be.
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The probe was only there for 5 mins to see the temp difference it is not there now. :)
 
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Alsopassed 3d/pc Mark, amd stresscpu for 1 hour somewhere around 1.2 million iterations, temps are coming down as well.

Woo happy now. :D
 
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