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    1ghz thunderbird is boiling

    I tried once again to reinstall cooler/processor and I saw an interesting little thing: The electronic device (whatever you guys call it in english...) which measures the temperature from the processor looks like it has melted from the top. The "root" is blue but the head is whitish...
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    1ghz thunderbird is boiling

    The heatsink is installed properly so that should not be the problem. Those thermalgrease advices really bothers me. All you guys say that I should use as little as I can but I got the processor much cooler when "painted" the processor white instead of putting only a small drop over...
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    1ghz thunderbird is boiling

    The heatsink is warm after shutdown but not hot. I have tried to install the cooler about 50 times but temperature is always the same. Currently I am experimenting with loads of thermalgrease on the chip and it helped once more a little bit. Now the processors temp is from 60 to 65c. The...
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    1ghz thunderbird is boiling

    Hello! I just bought a new machine and it run fine exept the processor runs around 70c degrees! the hardware I'm currently using: 1ghz thundebird, no overclocking (10.0x100)...yet ;) Abit KT7-raid mb Coolermaster DP5-6H51 Few first times I started the computer the temperature was soon around...