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Originally Posted by Jstn7477
Honestly the StarTech.com cooler doesn't look too bad. Remember that the X2 5000+ BE is only a 65w TDP processor on a 65nm process with only 1MB L2 cache total, so I'm going to stick with my explanation about the TIM under the IHS. I don't really know how effective a new cooler will be if the heat is having a problem escaping the IHS in the first place.
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That'd be a problem. I have no idea how to remove the IHS...
(And what on earth could have caused the TIM between processor and IHS to go kaput? Perhaps once it overheated really bad or something?)
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Originally Posted by ChristTheGreat
If you remove the heatsink, do you will see if there isa good contact CPU to heatsink..
By the way, room temp??
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Yes when I removed it the first time today the TIM was very evenly spread and showed that it had been filling up small spaces which needed to be filled. Even when I removed the AS 5 the second time, it was the same. I only made a drop the size of a grain of rice and it spread nearly to all the ends of the IHS.
Room temperature is 76F / 25C.
But still, in the
same room there's both pc's - the one with the 5000BE at 54 degrees and my E8400 (@ 4Ghz) at 42 degrees.
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Originally Posted by ChristTheGreat
and what reads your temp? Bios , core temp?
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I am using Hwinfo and Speccy for both pc's. Both programs give the same temps.