Hello,
Currently running on a Athlon XP 2500+ not overclocked. Using the fan/heatsink that came with the processor. Everything is mounted in an Antec Sonata Case. I had some heat concerns since a couple days and bought another 120mm fan for intake (Antec Smartcool) and the Artic Silver 5 for the cpu (didn't use any thermal paste when building, just the wax pad that was on the heatsink.
When removing the heatsink to add some paste, i realized that the wax pad melted and felt all around the cpu. Removed everything, cleaned carefully with acetone and followed the instructions carefully to apply the thermal paste.
Now, the cooling isn't really better. I still get a cpu at 57C with a system temp of 41C when doing nothing. During intense gaming, cpu reaches 63C and system 45C .
I know that thermal paste can take up to 200 hours and several temp cycles before reaching maximum efficiency but I thought that results would be better than that at first.
Is the heatsink/fan that comes with the AMD cpu crappy or what?! Don't know what to do to improve...
.fs.
Currently running on a Athlon XP 2500+ not overclocked. Using the fan/heatsink that came with the processor. Everything is mounted in an Antec Sonata Case. I had some heat concerns since a couple days and bought another 120mm fan for intake (Antec Smartcool) and the Artic Silver 5 for the cpu (didn't use any thermal paste when building, just the wax pad that was on the heatsink.
When removing the heatsink to add some paste, i realized that the wax pad melted and felt all around the cpu. Removed everything, cleaned carefully with acetone and followed the instructions carefully to apply the thermal paste.
Now, the cooling isn't really better. I still get a cpu at 57C with a system temp of 41C when doing nothing. During intense gaming, cpu reaches 63C and system 45C .
I know that thermal paste can take up to 200 hours and several temp cycles before reaching maximum efficiency but I thought that results would be better than that at first.
Is the heatsink/fan that comes with the AMD cpu crappy or what?! Don't know what to do to improve...
.fs.