Celeron problems

PCvas

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i recently got a Celly566, and been running it for 2 weeks. i only have a heat sink and a fan on it, without the thermal tape and i wanted to find out how much of a difference thermal tape/compound makes, and also, whatahell is it anyway? how does one apply it? my computer is acting weird, it freezes up for about 5 seconds once in a while and then goes back to normal, i used to have it overclocked to 700 or so, but then i downclocked it back to orignal but it still does it...could this be because of high heat? my CPU is running at about 60, and i think its pretty high. what do u people recomend.
 

kvizbar

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That thermal pad on the heatsink helps to transfer heat from the CPU core (the blue square) to the heatsink, so the chip can cool off more efficiently. You should get a replacement for the pad, or some thermal grease. 60 degrees IS pretty high. That's likely what's causing your lockups.
 

mrchan

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go to radio shack, pick up some thermal grease, its cheap, about $2 for the bottle, much much better than the tape. should solve your heat problem and probably let you OC to 850. I'd never run any cpu with thermal grease on it, even at stock speed. to apply it clean off the cpu core and the heatsink (use like rubbing alcohol or something), dab some grease on the core, and spread it with a credit card. it should be a THIN layer, too much and it will cause problems.
 

shiznut123

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Don't use thermal tape. Using thermal compund makes a LOT of difference. I recommend some radioshack thermal paste. It is very good for the price.
 

Killrose

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60C is to damn hot! Get rid of the thermal pad, use rubbing alcohol to clean the CPU good. And use the radio shack heatsink grease, unless you can get some cicuit works or arctic silver compound. My old CII 533 ran at 896MHz day in day out, and could do 920 no prob, but I did'nt like to stress it with the heat, and it never went above 45C (I had an Orb).You might have to add a front case fan as well to cool everything down.

 

Batti

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I have the same chip overclocked to 850Mhz running at 33C right now. Somethings not right at all with your temps!