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Help! temp won't go down anymore

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ecvs85

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I getting high temperature reading on my zalman CNPS7000B-Cu right now, as high as the stock heatsink gave me!

Before that I had no problems, my temps are around 6C lower, that was when I was still using the original metal backplate plus added washers to keep the height for the screws right. And after I changed the backplate for the zalman's backplate, it was like the pressure was not enough to spread the arctic silver 5 around and thin enough for better heat tranfer.
I tried it countless times and still no avail, I tried to bend the metal clippers a little so that it would provide better pressures, but it is still the same 🙁

my system spec is amd 64 2800+ on k8n neo platinum, the 60C on load are killing me, and the ambient temperature is 30C, before that I got around 53-55C. Any suggestions?
 
it may be, but the coincidence of it happening and consistency after that reapplication of thermal compounds suggest that it was not the case 🙁
 
I bought a Zalman 7000 B-CU to replace Intel stock heatsink on my old P4 2.4 Prescott. I was running 36 C on stock and when I replaced with new 7000 was still running 36 C; no improvement. I would suggest removing the Zalman and going back to what worked, the stock. Zalman may be more quiet but not worth the extra heat for sure.
 
Hmm, but it does gave me improvement before.

I followed the arctic silver 5 instructions and put on the appropriate volumes of it. This is what I observe when I remove the heatsink last time:
before: the thermal compound was spread out nicely and thin
after : the circle spread was smaller and thicker

both using the same volumes of thermal compounds, it would seems that it was the case. So the last time I reapply it I bent the clippers a little and definitely I felt more pressure(no idea how much) when I screwed it up. But the temps are still the same. So i guess it doesn't work out 🙁

any chances of other factors playing around in this case?
 
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