My arctic silver vs. thermal paste results on T-Bird 900...sort of...(and a question for mikewarrior)

[Spoooon]

This wasn't really a true comparison of thermal paste vs. arctic silver, but rather the Taisol heatsink with paste vs. FOP32 with arctic silver.

Taisol with paste:
Idle 45-47 degrees celsius
Load 55-60 degrees celsius <--- kinda scary temps

FOP32 with arctic silver:
Idle 30-33 degrees celsius
Load 36-38 degrees celsius

Load defined as 10-20 minutes of Quake III
Ambient temp is a toasty 26 degrees celsius

Well, I can imagine that replacing the Taisol with the FOP32 made a big difference, but some of that credit goes to the arctic silver as well.

I wanted to include some RC5 stuff, but didn't think about it until I switched the heatsinks.

edit: Ran the RC5 client for 10 minutes, the temp peaked at 42 degrees celsius

A question for Mikewarrior: is the thermistor reading the temp too low or too high?

edit2: The dramatic difference can also be attributed to my inexperiance in installing heatsinks on Socket A CPUs. But still, my other thread did show a dramatic improvement when using arctic silver as opposed to thermal paste.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

is it a 900 at default clock/voltage?

if that is so, you'd expect a core temp around 17C over ambient for the FOP38, and 23C over ambient for the taisol.

With a peak of 42C running rc5, i'd guess that the FOP temps are fairly good &quot;approximation&quot; temps.



Mike

 

[Spoooon]

Yes, the processor is at default settings. Right now though, I don't really care which is better, just that I was able to fart around with the heatsinks and not crush the core!

 

[Mikewarrior2]

in that case, you should be fine with the FOP.


Mike