Originally posted by Descenterace
My recent upgrade to an Athlon64 3500 has led to headaches re: heat. The CPU gets very hot even when idle, and this is after I bought a ThermalRight XP-90 heatsink, a 30CFM 92mm fan and some Arctic Silver 5. And lapped both heatsink and CPU heatspreader...
Hence my planned upgrade to watercooling and a ground-up rebuild of my system. I just hope I can get a decent price for my current rig...
How hot exactly? I'm running a similar setup, a 3000+ 64 and a Venus 12 on my system, and I idle at 38C, if my room is at actual room temperature. It'll top out at 52C, maxed out running the UD agent.
And you lapped the heatspreader on the processor? I wouldnt think that they'd need that sort of treatment. Heh. I've never actually lapped my heatsinks at all and I get great performance.
Another thing to consider too, how are you putting the AS5 compound on? If you slather the entire chip with it, it might not be transferring the heat as efficiently (though, when you think about it, it probably doesnt matter). Arctic Silver's website has been updated with a new way to apply the compound. Not only does it make perfect sense, it makes it way easier when you have to take the heatsink off. One guy I knew slathered it on thick all over the chip. Couldnt get it off unless we maxed out the CPU for a bit, got the temps up, shut down the system, and got the chip off.