I thought that I read somewhere that when you are in bios looking at the temps, the CPU is actually runnng full speed, not idling? Or maybe that was just on some mobos?
>>At 08:46 AM 23/06/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: >>>At 07:36 AM 6/23/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: >>>>I got it working on my motherboard using Arctic Silver 5. Seems to be >>>>running at 51C idle using his heat sink. >>> >>>What did he use, some latex caulk? <lol> >> >>Heh heh. He used that old style white compound, but he used about a pound >>of it. :) >> >>Here's a strange thing. On his Gigabyte motherboard, the CPU climbs >>steadily updwards (it's at 64C now sitting in the CMOS) with the same >>compound and heat sink (I have the heat sink running from a power supply >>connector, since when I attached it to the motherboard, the CPU climbed to >>82C in about a minute and shutdown.) I've updated the BIOS, but I'm >>thinking the motherboard must be doing something weird to be heating the >>CPU this way. I can't check the voltages, as it just says "OK" for all >>voltages instead of showing actual numbers. Clever. >> >>T -- JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
