Recent content by Murq

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    Q9550 on Striker II Extreme heating up, please help

    Ok, this thing started bugging me too much, so I removed the Vendetta 2. A big mistake. The pushpins felt more fragile than the one's on intel stock coolers. For the first time in my life there now blood on the heatsink, haha. Cleaned the sink and cpu with spirit, applied the grease correctly...
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    Q9550 on Striker II Extreme heating up, please help

    Thanks guys, especially BonzaiDuck for your in-depth advice! Yeah, they didn't have arctic silver so I thought I'll just go with the paste that's bundled. Gave a good press on the push-pins, they were all good. 1. and 3. I have the latest bios, i flashed it two days ago. 2. The bios that...
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    My Q9550 Temps - Too High?

    To me that sounds like way too much thermal paste. Also you don't need to spread the paste around like that, pressing the sink on the cpu should be enough to make it spread evenly. Did some of the grease squeeze out from between the sink and the cpu?
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    Q9550 on Striker II Extreme heating up, please help

    Some unlabeled silicon thermal grease that came with the OCZ cooler
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    Q9550 on Striker II Extreme heating up, please help

    Hello all! I'm new here and wish that someone could give me some advice on my current problem. First off, here's my setup: Q9550 Asus striker II extreme OCZ vendetta 2 cpu cooler OCZ ddr3 2gb 1600 MHz platinum Asus 900 ultimate gamer case 2 x 9800gt Vista home premium The...