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I was just about to complete checkout then i remembered about thermal paste/greece. Do coolers normaly come with their own paste or do you normaly have to buy that separately?
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artic silver 5 is considered the best?Comment
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Ok then, i've bought it all and i will fit it when it arrives. They had no desent thermal paste on their website so i'll get that tomorrow in town.
Thanks for all your helpComment
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ur more than welcome and we need all the state of the art hardware we can get around here!
I ran across some geil (copper based) paste a while back, it's very dangerous
as it conducts. but on the amd 64 which is covered by a metal plate, safe.
Spread it? thin and even, less is better, prime the heat sink, put a little on it to fill micropores and swipe off excess. I have been doing this for a few years.Comment
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Ok then, i think that the overclock is complete. I am running at 2.858 Ghz, 238 MHz FSB, 12x Multiplier, 1.600 Volts, 203.45 MHz Membus.
Idle = 35 C
100% = 49 C
I think that the new TT cooler was a bit of a must have item. I had to use stock cooling for a couple of days while it came and you could tell it was struggling to keep temp down, but i only used the pc for simple tasks, nothing which brought the usage much above 20%, no encoding or anything.
It is a good fan, a bit noisy on the full 5500 RPM but i don't mind it, makes the pc sound powerfull
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Takes good care of that cpu, it will eat digital video very fast.Comment
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Unfortunately, the system was not as stable as i thought when i posted last so i have had to raise the volatage by 0.050 making the total 1.650 Volts to the processor. Will the extra voltage hurt the CPU at all (nominal running voltage is 1.500v)?Comment
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Watch the temp, make sure the case is getting good airflow, that cpu
sounds like it's slightly overclocked by AMD to reach it's rating, my default voltage is lower and I just boost to 1.5V. Watch those cas settings also,
they might be the issue, the on cpu memory controller makes those setups
extremely picky with ram.
I don't know what I would do without Everest, (thanks again UNcasMS)!Comment
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