Thanks to
MotherBoard Monitor,
I noticed that the chip in my new rig was running a little hot at idle
(around 110 degrees farenheit, god only knows how hot it was getting
during actual use). This being an AMD chip, I didn’t really think
much of it as I remember the older chips ran
very hot. I mentioned it to
Bob, at which point he reached through the internet and smacked me; “did you use thermal grease (aka
High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound)
between the chip and the heatsink?” Whoops. Hey, it’s been
a while since I built my own machine (I’ve used it on all previous
builds, simply forgot this time). So I ran and got some, took the
chip out, applied a gratuitous layer of the “compound”, and put
everything back together…and then spent 30 minutes washing my hands
trying to get rid of the crap that had glued itself there. The
chip is now running around 90 degrees F, so good call. It’s
actually running cooler than my Intel rig. Don’t forget to use
this stuff.
Posted
Fri, Jun 17 2005 3:52 AM
by
Jayson Knight