On Saturday 15 April 2006 07:56 pm, Vaughn Treude kindly wrote:
> A question for the build-it-yourselfers out there:
>
> It seems I always have trouble with heat when reinstalling a CPU. Since
> it's a used heatsink I have to put on new thermal compound. I bought a
> tube of Arctic Alumina thermal grease and followed the instructions from
> the company's website as closely as I possibly could. Still, the BIOS
> says that the CPU (an AMD 2600+ or something similar) is heating up to
> 60 degrees C. Assuming the BIOS is right, I did something wrong. I've
> already redone this twice. This is the heatsink that came with the
> CPU. And yes, I cleaned the old thermal pad off the heatsink with
> carburetor cleaner as recommended. The problems, as I see it, are:
>
> 1. It's extremely hard to get the thermal grease in a thin even layer.
> The directions say you can use a razor blade or a clean credit card.
> I've tried both. I never get the layer quite even and if I try to fix
> it, I always make it worse, producing gaps and whatnot.
>
> 2. The directions say you shouldn't twist or slide the heatsink when
> mating it down on the processor. Makes sense, but with those tiny, tiny
> little plastic nubs on the sides of the CPU socket, it's very hard to
> mate that with the heatsink's mounting hardware exactly right the first
> time. Seems like it's always a millimeter or two off. Unless I want to
> take it off and reapply the goop, and do this about 50 times in
> succession, I need to slide the heatsink over a tiny bit.
>
> Has anybody had this kind of trouble, or am I some kind of idiot? Is it
> better to just by a new heating with that meltable thermal pad on it?
>
> Vaughn
>
Is this an AMD CPU? What kind of system is it, e.g. socket A, or what?
It's been a while since I had to put on a heatsink but I've built a number of
AMD socket A machines, and the stock heatsinks that came with the CPU were
always junk- loud and inefficient. But even so, this sounds hotter than
normal.
The only time I've ever had one get hot like that, it wasn't mounted flush
with the board. I had tried using a shim to keep it from cracking upon
mounting, and the shim made it not fit right. There was actually an air gap
under half of it.
Siri Amrit
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