On 8/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So the heat sink is not disspating heat. If it was working well earlier > It means the fan has slowed down. Or U are overclocking > If not u need better heatsink / faster airflow / lower ambient. Put a > fan in the box. >
No. Actually, originally the board that I got was dead. So, in the process of replacing the board, the processor + heatsink was removed. This "cracked" the thermal pad below the heat sink. While refitting the heat sink on the new board, the "cracked" thermal pad must've moved a bit out of position. This is prolly the reason for the high temperatures. The fan is working well. No problem with it. According to AMD's docs, we are supposed to replace the pad everytime we remove the heatsink from the processor. I should've done that but due to my "ignorance" I couldn't buy a new thermal pad / grease.... > > Thermal grease will reduce thermal resisitance between the processor > and the heatsink. This will raise the temp of the heatsink and lower > the die temp by a few percent points. > So you recommend the grease over the pad? Regards, Dinesh Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
