just ordered equipment for cooling

[talldude]

Oohh...that's a nice sink. I got its athlon brother, the 8045. Still, with my delta 80cfm I get better results with the fan blowing at the HS. Might be because of the focused flow fins. Whatever...I'm sure with a 120mm fan you'll get very nice cooling with little noise.

[ewitte]

Originally posted by talldude
Oohh...that's a nice sink. I got its athlon brother, the 8045. Still, with my delta 80cfm I get better results with the fan blowing at the HS. Might be because of the focused flow fins. Whatever...I'm sure with a 120mm fan you'll get very nice cooling with little noise.

Overclocking will have to wait for the heat sink. This crappy one I have on it now is at 50C idle. Although I did do a terrible job installing the AS because I knew it was only for a few days.

Eric

[talldude]

Lol. I just redid my AS3. This time I went with as little as possible. The layer was so thin I could see the core, i mean there was hardly any on there. Temps didn't budge either way really. I think I need a better HS to get better temps at this point.

[knuckles644]

Wouldn't a transparent layer of as3 inhibit good cooling, like minimize contact? Don't you need like "just the right amount" to get effective transfer?

[talldude]

Well...when you have a HS that has been lapped as flat as is humanly possible with 1500 grit paper, and then buffed to a nice finish, there is hardly any need for thermal paste. The thing is, thermal paste inhibits the transfer of heat if at that point there could be direct die - HS contact. The job of the paste is to fill the little gaps and make sure that there aren't any air bubbles. If you got a perfectly flat die and a perfectly flat HS, there wouldn't be any need for the paste because it would simply block the transfer of heat. That's pretty much impossible to have though...so I went with the as little as possible paste approach.

[knuckles644]

Originally posted by talldude
Well...when you have a HS that has been lapped as flat as is humanly possible with 1500 grit paper, and then buffed to a nice finish, there is hardly any need for thermal paste. The thing is, thermal paste inhibits the transfer of heat if at that point there could be direct die - HS contact. The job of the paste is to fill the little gaps and make sure that there aren't any air bubbles. If you got a perfectly flat die and a perfectly flat HS, there wouldn't be any need for the paste because it would simply block the transfer of heat. That's pretty much impossible to have though...so I went with the as little as possible paste approach.

Ya, I know the ins and outs of thermal grease, I just didn't know you had lapped your hs, but now it's comin back to me (several threads about this a while back)...

[ewitte]

Originally posted by talldude
Lol. I just redid my AS3. This time I went with as little as possible. The layer was so thin I could see the core, i mean there was hardly any on there. Temps didn't budge either way really. I think I need a better HS to get better temps at this point.

The AC kicks in during the night. It was running cool enough I did a quick OC. I pushed it up to 2.91Ghz and maxed out at 55C during the seti benchmark. I'm running 356DDR at the moment at 2.6v. The CPU is still at stock voltage. I'm not taking it over 1.6v. It did do close to 3.2 at stock but I was pushing the memory too much and windows would not load. Since I have the Mushkin coming in I did not play with it.

Eric