Felt Pads on the 4 corners of Thunderbird CPU

[ddrupp]

I was cleaning up my core and around it where I got some Artic Silver on it. One of the pads fell off. I re-applied it with some glue. Am I hurting anything ? Can I get a new pad someplace ? My temps are adequate at around 40 C for a T-Bird 800 and around 45 C with a load. What purpose do these pads serve ?

Thanks for your answers in advance,

Dave

 

[Tetsuo316]

<< Am I hurting anything ? >>



no, the glue should bond just fine with the ceramic of the chip.



<< Can I get a new pad someplace ? >>



probably, but i don't know where, and more importantly, i don't think you need to.



<< What purpose do these pads serve ? >>



they stop the heatsink from crushing the core of the processor.

 

[ddrupp]

Thank you for your reply.I feel a little better about it now.

Dave Drupp

 

[ddrupp]

Thank you for your reply.I feel a little better about it now.

Dave Drupp

 

[ddrupp]

Well-----------My CPU died on Wednesday----It may have been the felt pads but I will never know. I had to get a new T-Bird 800 on Thursday. Just thought you would want to know. The rubber pads MAY indeed be very important. I had 2 small chips missing fom the corner of the core on both sides that the bad pad was glued on.


I got a Coolermaster DP5-6H51 heatsink fan combo at the sane time. It has thermal tape on it and I just stuck with that instead of the Artic Silver. It runs a 2 degrees C hotter but I have no problems. Room Temp is around 72 F ,Mb temp is around 78-80 F and the CPU temp right now is around 41-42 (104-107 F). I have never seen it peak 45 C yet but I really haven't taxed the system yet since I replaced the CPU. What are your thoughts on these probably inaccurate temps? I have a Asus A7V MB with bios version 1005A.

I also have a sunon case fan in the front of the case pulling air in and one in the back pulling air out.

Thanks

Dave

 

[Mikewarrior2]

A7V tends to &quot;approximate&quot; temp a tad higher than actual core temp.

However, the comparison issues comparing PCTC versus Arctic Silver still exist. I recnetly got some results on a Celeron2-566 @ 990 1.9V, and the difference at load between AS and PCTC was about 7C. Keep in mind this is at 31W cpu heat output, not the 50+ of duron/t-birds. Expect the difference to increase with higher W cpus.



Mike

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

ddrupp.. today a pad fell off mine too and I glued it back.. I'm running with that duron cpu right now..

When did your cpu die exactly?

Did you do some more work with the cpu and remount the heatsink, and then found it was dead? Or did the heatsink just seem to go -crunch- on the cpu at just some random point for no apparent reason?

 

[ddrupp]

It died on Thursday night. It was fine in the morning and I went to work and Thursday night I cranked her up ---------AND---------nothing happened. Power went on ----fans were running --hard drive initiated but nothing on the screen. I took the the computer over to a friends house who also has a T-bird CPU and diagonstic checked components until I came to the CPU. I put his T-Bird 700 in mine and she fired right up so I knew then it was the CPU.

So to make a long story short---yes it was kind of random. It was working and then it went poof. Keep an eye on it---but there is really nothing you can do if it goes though.


Hope this helps

Dave

 

[Tweakmeister]

Any chance I can purchase that (burned out) chip? Email me.