Not sure if i've mounted the heat sink properly

Gilbert Coquard · 27 Jun 2009 at 14:29

At the min it looks like this.

blue outline is the cpu, and the black is the Freezer Pro copper heatsink.

Temps at the min are
core 1/2/3 at 20degrees and CPU at 32degrees

Should i be worrying about the gap at the top? Its the highest i could manage to get the heatsink.

valdai · 27 Jun 2009 at 18:11

Is there meant to be a picture there?

Geekazoid · 27 Jun 2009 at 18:18

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na its a graph showing that a wee bit of the top of cpu is not coverd by the heatsink.... i have no experience with those heatsinks sorry pal although your temps look fine...

[edit] what are your temps on load?

Occooler · 27 Jun 2009 at 19:07

a 12 degree difference is surely indicative of something wrong?

BIGBC · 27 Jun 2009 at 19:13

That 12 degree difference seems a tad odd to me too.
Id try running the system with a different cooler (spare or stock) to get some ideas of temps and then compare to temps with the Freezer Pro.

Gilbert Coquard · 27 Jun 2009 at 21:04

So the 3 cores being 12degrees less than the cpu is a bad thing? should the cpu be near enough the same degrees as the cores? during a quick 3 hour prime95 stress test, the cpu never went above 43degrees, and the cores were at about 31degrees

anyway this is a screen shot of my amd over drive.