earlier today I put a new heatsink and fan on my p3 slot 1 . I decided to upgrade the heatsink and etc because of the amount of encoding I've been doing keeping the cpu cool is a priority. So anyway, I put the bad boy together and take it out for a test run and the temp during encoding was going way over before. I mean I hit 85 degrees celsius before shutting her down. I sat there, well stepped out for a smoke, and pondered what I had done wrong. I used silver thermal compound, new heatsink, dual fans, hmm. So I came in took it apart and noticed that I had fubarred one little detail, the heatsink wasn't completely secured. It was tight, but I was able to pop it down one more pop on each bracket. now I'm encoding, doing this, and running some downloads and only running at 50 degrees celsius. The reason why I bring this up is for those of you that might neglect the tightness of the heatsink and wonder why things aren't quite working correctly. oh and before my upgrades I was running about 65 degrees celsius during encoding, so I feel its an improvement.


I know like ya all care, but I just wanted to point out that sometimes its the little overlooked things that matter. Oh also for those of you with slot 1 processors there is a pretty cool way to get the securing bracket off without damaging it, check here:
http://www.thetechzone.com/articles/p3_heatsink_remove2.htm

ah well, ya all have a good day.

ttfn,
cbj

p.s. just threw out the poll for kicks