Heatsink

Loxa · 8 Mar 2012 at 19:34

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-000-AC&tool=3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-003-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27

These are suitable?

Mattus · 9 Mar 2012 at 01:05

This is all pretty academic because idle temps are essentially meaningless (and heavily dependent on room temperature!) On its own, idling at 36c won't do your system any harm.

What is the temp at full load, whilst running a program like Prime95? That's what really matters.

Loxa · 9 Mar 2012 at 01:27

Mattus said:
This is all pretty academic because idle temps are essentially meaningless (and heavily dependent on room temperature!) On its own, idling at 36c won't do your system any harm.

What is the temp at full load, whilst running a program like Prime95? That's what really matters.

Oh ok. Ive never really heard about Prime95 or used it would you beable to give me a quick run down on it

Much appreciated.

Rusty0611 · 9 Mar 2012 at 08:56

Mattus said:
This is all pretty academic because idle temps are essentially meaningless (and heavily dependent on room temperature!) On its own, idling at 36c won't do your system any harm.

What is the temp at full load, whilst running a program like Prime95? That's what really matters.

Agree - but the OP could move his heatsink. Never a good sign of a heatsinks ability to transfer heat via thermal compound.

Deception · 9 Mar 2012 at 09:10

Thrust4Money said:
Oh ok. Ive never really heard about Prime95 or used it would you beable to give me a quick run down on it

Much appreciated.

It basically stresses your CPU to find unstable overclocks and see what max temps would be. The fact that you haven't used anything like that means those max temps in the original screenshot are way too high to be not under any kind of load.