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Note on Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound
Just a note that I tried this on a KN8 + Opteron170 + geminII setup, and it
worked fine, and did drop temps from AS5 a couple degrees. With Prime95 running on both cores at it peaks at 53C at about 28C ambient. As an afterthought I put it on both ends of the chipset heatpipe heatsink and saw temps actually rise a couple degrees. But I suspect this is bogus, as I think the tempsensing chip is also underneath the heatsink and didn't get any compound on it, because it sits lower than the voltage regulators and I didn't think about it. The stock thick tape that I removed probably touch it. In any case system temps never rise above 38C. Anyway, thumbs up on MX-2, though I think they were stingy with the syringe, it looks like 2 applications is all it will do. rms |
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Note on Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:10:24 +0000, rms wrote:
Just a note that I tried this on a KN8 + Opteron170 + geminII setup, and it worked fine, and did drop temps from AS5 a couple degrees. With Prime95 running on both cores at it peaks at 53C at about 28C ambient. As an afterthought I put it on both ends of the chipset heatpipe heatsink and saw temps actually rise a couple degrees. But I suspect this is bogus, as I think the tempsensing chip is also underneath the heatsink and didn't get any compound on it, because it sits lower than the voltage regulators and I didn't think about it. The stock thick tape that I removed probably touch it. In any case system temps never rise above 38C. Anyway, thumbs up on MX-2, though I think they were stingy with the syringe, it looks like 2 applications is all it will do. Bummer. I get about 5,000 applications with the 99 cent thermal compund I use that I bought about 30 years ago, which also worked better than the original thermal compound. My X2 3800+ maxes out at about 55C with a system temp of 40C with both cores close to 100%. But my cooler only cost $6.95, a TR2-M6. What was that P.T. Barnum used to say... -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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Note on Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound
What was that P.T. Barnum used to say...
Don't step in the elephant **** "Wes Newell" wrote in message news:iMNBi.3559$xg.1486@trnddc05... On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:10:24 +0000, rms wrote: Just a note that I tried this on a KN8 + Opteron170 + geminII setup, and it worked fine, and did drop temps from AS5 a couple degrees. With Prime95 running on both cores at it peaks at 53C at about 28C ambient. As an afterthought I put it on both ends of the chipset heatpipe heatsink and saw temps actually rise a couple degrees. But I suspect this is bogus, as I think the tempsensing chip is also underneath the heatsink and didn't get any compound on it, because it sits lower than the voltage regulators and I didn't think about it. The stock thick tape that I removed probably touch it. In any case system temps never rise above 38C. Anyway, thumbs up on MX-2, though I think they were stingy with the syringe, it looks like 2 applications is all it will do. Bummer. I get about 5,000 applications with the 99 cent thermal compund I use that I bought about 30 years ago, which also worked better than the original thermal compound. My X2 3800+ maxes out at about 55C with a system temp of 40C with both cores close to 100%. But my cooler only cost $6.95, a TR2-M6. What was that P.T. Barnum used to say... -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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