Damaged Heatsink for P3 733

[CrustyToeJam]

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.

 

[Eltano1]

What kind of HS do you have?. In any case to can remove that and apply Artic SilverII and it will work better than with the thermal interface.

Eltano

 

[CrustyToeJam]

I'm assuming its intel. Its the heatsink that came with the processor.

 

[SpeedTrap]

it aslo depends on your mainboard. any asus board wont show correct temp especially the CUSL2 series

 

[CrustyToeJam]

I do have a cusl2-c motherboard. So should i be worried?

 

[Generalen]

No I don't think U should be worried I got a 733 too It can run much higher than that for very long time (had mine running @52C in many weeks cracking rc5 that means it ran 24/7 at full load)