Recent content by blackd

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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    Spot on. It is hard and doesnt come off easily. Infact, and this is something I realized just now - the shape of the gray paste is an EXACT circle - I always wondered how that was - Now I know why :( :( Hot - Not all round the year - the winters are cool here. Not too hot, and not too cold...
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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    It's cold in my room, that's definitely not a problem :) Dubai's a good place to be. I stay closeby. How did you find it? I just ordered some Arctic Silver 5. Should be coming thru tomorrow. Could you give me an example of something which has isopropyl-alcohol. like say, a nail polish...
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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    In the Middle East. Next to Saudi Arabia :) Now you know why I'm worried about my E6300! Are you using the stock HSF?
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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    OK PCTC2, but what about this plastic bit? I dont know if I removed the plastic which came with the HSF or not. Maybe it just fused with the 3 strips thermal paste? I just did a 4th reseating, and noticed that the grayish material has spread out in a circle over the surface of the cooler and...
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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    Thanks all for your suggestions. Whazzat?????? I'm a noobie here, and I followed the instructions from the video on the Intel website.. There's no mention of applying any paste or taking off any plastic off the bottom of the heatsink - Are you sure I have take the plastic off the bottom? Is...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Coretemp unfortuantely crashes (BSOD) my system. Speedfan reports temps higher than IDU - it's reading 9 degrees higher than IDU for both cores! The intel HSF comes with a thermal pad - they've specifically said not to add any sort of paste - so until I change the HSF I'll stick with the pad...
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    E6300 idling at 60 - HELP!

    Hi, I just setup my E6300 system (All factory settings, no overclock), and its running waay too hot, and I cant seem to cool it down! When I startup and look at the temps in BIOS (or Intel Desktop Utilties), I have 41 C for my CPU temp. It takes around 5 minutes to slowly go upto to 60 C...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Hi, Has anyone been having problems with the CPU temps on this board? I have an E6300 which idles at 57 C and goes upto 65 C with load (temps measured using Intel Desktop Utilities and stress test in that same software). CPU fan spins at (only?) 1100 RPM. SpeedFan reports my 2 cores even...