Cpu getting too hot? What to do?

[softhunder]

I checked and there is no thermal paste there at all.
Is that normal?

 

[baronvongogo]

hmm what about on the heat sink it self? maybe a thermal pad? i took my 6800GT apart a week ago and my GPU had thermal paste on...so im not sure.

heres a link of someone doing just that :

http://www.shaunchng.com/articles/tutorials/gpu_p/gpu_p.php

 

[softhunder]

No its not on the heatsink either but i dont remember about the thermal pad. I m quite bad at remembering things but as far as i can remember there was just metal and no thermal stuff on heatsink or GPU

 

[baronvongogo]

Then i would apply some, although iv never done it my self...

 

[softhunder]

Then i guess i ll put the rest of the paste on my GPU and hope that I would get the desired result.

 

[baronvongogo]

post back with results you can also download everest found in my sig, it tells you your GPU temps.

 

[Phrantic]

i disagree with spreading it with a credit card
i suggest putting the grain of rice size dot in the center and then applying your hsf. the pressure of hsf spreads the paste where it needs to be...which is the center of the cpu's heat spreader.
read from the arctic silver5 website under installation, they have a good reason for not spreading it. i.e. the heat transfer is more efficient if the paste is centered on the cpu instead of totally covering it.

I agree with this method. But letting the pressure of the heatsink do the job gives almost the same output: thermal paste evenly spread over nearly the entire surface.

 

[softhunder]

I just downloaded and installed Everest and it doesnt show GPU temps
I just liked the benchmarks. Got some good ones.
I will apply the paste in the night cauz right now i m waiting for another problem for which i have made another thread about my PC restaring when i Shut it down from windows. I hope you can help me with that too. so that i dont have to open up the whole system again.
Here is the thread

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140349

 

[baronvongogo]

did you go to computer then sensor in everest? sometimes it shoes GPU temps along with CPU and fan speed.

 

[softhunder]

ok, now i can see it. Before i just went to GPU. Its showing 56 c when its normal and thats pretty much for being normal i guess.