- Jun 9, 2001
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I was installing the heatsink on top of my pentium 3 733 MHz processor and damaged the thermal interface material (the white guey stuff) on the bottom of the heatsink.
I got my computer up and running and saw that the CPU temperature was at 40 C and the MB temp was at 26 C. If I left my computer on for about an hour, the CPU temp rose to 45 C.
I think the temp is too high for the CPU and the damage I caused to the thermal interface material while installing it may have affected the heatsink's mechanism.
Is the temperature too high? If it is, should I replace the heatsink and if so, any deals out there for a good quality and cheap priced heatsink?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I got my computer up and running and saw that the CPU temperature was at 40 C and the MB temp was at 26 C. If I left my computer on for about an hour, the CPU temp rose to 45 C.
I think the temp is too high for the CPU and the damage I caused to the thermal interface material while installing it may have affected the heatsink's mechanism.
Is the temperature too high? If it is, should I replace the heatsink and if so, any deals out there for a good quality and cheap priced heatsink?
Any ideas?
Thanks.