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every time you remove the heatsink you have to replace the thermal compound?
Radio Shack stocks Arctic Silver at almost all stores.
Try 3-in-1 oil. It is a brand available at Walmart etc. Sewing department if not automotive. Any brand of sewing machine oil.
One drop.
Mike
Do not add additional Arctic Silver without completely cleaning both contact surfaces. Too much thermal paste or improperly applied thermal paste will severely degrade your heat transfer.
yep, i know. thanks for the reminder tho.. can never be too careful
i posted my temps here but i am also looking for a reliable way of testing to make sure my heatsink and thermal compound are installed and applied correctly.
i have used PC probe and speedfan, and both of them seem to show the temperature jumping quite a bit. i turned down the sample rate and i still get ~4-5°C jumps - it just seems unreliable to me... is there a program that will log and/or graph systems temps over time? i would be interested to see that.
Last edited by DirtyElf; 17 Nov 2010 at 11:17. Reason: to -> too
have you tried cpuid? they have other monitor programs too HWMonitor
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting
Last edited by brianzion; 17 Nov 2010 at 11:32. Reason: update with screen shot
Here is one of the reasons I like AIDA64. In addition to its other capabilities it runs in the background displaying and updating a highly customizable presentation that is integrated into your wallpaper.