On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:59:43 +0200, "Zink" wrote:

I have now tried the thermal pad on a pentium2.6 800fsb, and the peak
temperature was 51-52 degrees. On a pentium 2.6 533fsb with arctic silver,
the temperatures never got over 50°. The 800fsb system had also higher
motherboard temperatures at full load, around 40 degrees. The 533 fsb MB was
always at 36°.
These differences might be given by the 800fsb chipset, or software bugs in
the temperature reporting utility used (asus probe).
I do get the feeling that with arctic silver the cpu cools down faster,
however note that the thermal pad is already installed and saves alot of
time and acetone.


It is good to see this followup... too often you see inquiries, but
the final result is never mentioned.

IIRC, the P4 on a 800MHz FSB will use a very slight bit more power,
not enough to even consider except in a very controlled, precise
experiment. Asus' PCProbe can/does report inaccurate temps, I have an
Asus Athlon system here that's confirmed to report 6C over actual
temps, though that means little as to how accurate it is on your
board.

Right now I have a stock of generic (but fairly good) silicone-zinc
thermal compound (Circuitworks I "think"), AS Alumina, and AS3... I
would use the generic compound on a P4, it makes negligible difference
but is still easy to clean compared to AS3 or the stock pad.


Dave