Artic Silver testimony!!@@!!Question at the end of the story.

[Jwyatt]

Well to start out I read all the reviews about AS. Well i thought I be DAMN3D if im paying $14 for 3 grams of this $hit!
I bought some blue stuff off of e-bay. a buck a tube. I thought i would show them what $ saving will do for ya. Ive used it for a few weeks, but my temps seemed high. Under load i was running my Cel600@945 1.9v@@@@ 45-52 c, yea i kept running it @ that temp

Well i found a decent deal on some AS monday. Bought some It came in today. I quickly ripped the covers from my comp( yes im one of those old school guys, i run my comp with the covers ON SHOCK!!) Cleaned the HS and slug off. Put a dab of AS on it. Then reinstalled and booted...I thought wow this should do it.

Well I sat and looked at MBM start at 25c..thought WOW!. Then it crept up to 30c..thought not to bad! Then before i knew it...BAM im running at 60c...Good lord whats up?!?!!?

My comp eventually CRASHED....#!%&%#$##^#

Rebooted....beeep beeep beeep....OMG AS FUGGED UP MY COMP!

Ripped the covers off again...then noticed. WTF was i thinking. That little plug on the pep66 is for the fan you friggin idot. Well i plugged the stupid plug thing in up and running I go.

Now for the real test. Ive been running full load now for an hour or so...the temp is solid between 33-38c


Well one question. Why does my temp vary so much? Ive used MBM and Asus probe. Bothe look like a data sheed from a lie detector test. The temp will vary somtimes +/- 5c. Meaning from 40-50. Or 30-40.

 

[pbox]

In three words: heat is only generated when the transistors switch, meaning when the CPU is actullay doing something. Most of the CPU is the floating point unit(s), so unless you are really computing something the FPU part will not used -> No switching -> No Heat.

Just try Sandra or Prime95. That really heats it up. This is also the reason for crashes -> Idle -> Low heat -> Runs OK. Prime95 -> Switching like crazy -> Heat -> Crash.

FYI: My idle is about 30C it goes up to 52C when I use Mathematica. In standby it goes down to about 22-23C. Room temp is about 21C.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jwyatt]

Running SETI and RC5. i think i have the cpu load up some

What im saying about the heat jumping is that it jumps 10c between scans. I dont think thats normal. I could put a screen shot of it, but dont know what the hotkey is to take a shot from W98.

LEHP@

 

[pbox]

Ok, sorry I misunderstood. Between readings it is not good.

Couple of tips:

1) Make sure your fan connector is secured (see if it has a contact problem)
2) Try it on other headers (on KT7 boards this might not be a good idea, depending on your BIOS version and setup, they need RPM signal on FAN1 in order to start. A CPU protection feature, that can be disabled on newer BIOSes)
3) Try another heatsink/fan if you have one laying around (maybe the stock fan)

BTW: Alt-PrintScreen is the W98 screenshot (actually window shot). You need to paste the pic from the clipboard to an image editor.

Peter