I would always replace the thermal paste in a case like this. Worth paying the premium for a good one, still not expensive though
Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 13 Apr 2014 20:11, "Dr A. J. Trickett" <adam.trick...@iredale.net> wrote: > Hi, > > My 7 year old DNUK home server is prone to overheating. > > It has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor which is okay at 1GHz but > when > it gets up to 3.2GHz the temperature quickly rises, it starts to beep and > if > left long enough it shuts down. > > If I left it at 100% CPU load for hours it use to happen, now it will > happen > after less than 1 hour, it can take as little as 30 minutes under full > load. > > I now run it with the CPU governor, mostly set to on-demand and it spends > around 98% of it's life at 1Gz and is fine for what I use it. However it I > do > need the CPU grunt, it shoots up to 3.2GHz and then over heats. > > My current compromise is to lock the CPU at 1Gz and it's fine but it > should be > fine to run at the maximum clock speed for a while at least if I need it > (e.g. > running virtual machines). > > Having checked the mechanicals out this afternoon, the PSU, case and CPU > fan > are all running fine. > > I know the parts are getting old and were all generic jobs in the first > place. > > > My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it? And if so > what is the best replacement alternative for a basic home server? Is there > anything else I could consider? > > > -- > Adam Trickett > Overton, HANTS, UK > > Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for > the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. > -- John Maynard Keynes > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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