What a horrible design, i cannot stand those pins. So awkward.
I decided to clean my PC from the inside today as summer approaches. I had noticed an increase of 10-15C in my CPU temps. Putting me close to the maximum for my CPU. I was shocked at how much dust was covering the fan at the front of my PC, we are talking an inch thick. The heat sink also had a covering of dust, although not nearly as thick.
Doing brought back painful memories of how awkward the pins are to push into place. It took me four attempts to do this correctly, and i have done this many times.
The Arctic Cooler that i use doesn't help much either because of its weight, and the fact it is not laying flat once in position.
I now seem to have close to perfect contact between the pins, heat sink and my cpu. Idle temps in our room (which is pretty hot and stuffy due to the amount of electronics in the room including a chiller) have soared since summer has arrived.
I used Arctic Silver Ceramique.
I now idle at 38-40c on both cores, and at 100% full load using prime95 my temps only increase by 15c to 55c. The maximum before throttling occurs with my CPU is 72c. So a nice bit of headroom there if temps continue to soar in sunny England.
Moral of the story, use a CPU cooler that isn't so fiddly, and likely to break if you push a pin to hard when installing.
I decided to clean my PC from the inside today as summer approaches. I had noticed an increase of 10-15C in my CPU temps. Putting me close to the maximum for my CPU. I was shocked at how much dust was covering the fan at the front of my PC, we are talking an inch thick. The heat sink also had a covering of dust, although not nearly as thick.
Doing brought back painful memories of how awkward the pins are to push into place. It took me four attempts to do this correctly, and i have done this many times.
The Arctic Cooler that i use doesn't help much either because of its weight, and the fact it is not laying flat once in position.
I now seem to have close to perfect contact between the pins, heat sink and my cpu. Idle temps in our room (which is pretty hot and stuffy due to the amount of electronics in the room including a chiller) have soared since summer has arrived.
I used Arctic Silver Ceramique.
I now idle at 38-40c on both cores, and at 100% full load using prime95 my temps only increase by 15c to 55c. The maximum before throttling occurs with my CPU is 72c. So a nice bit of headroom there if temps continue to soar in sunny England.
Moral of the story, use a CPU cooler that isn't so fiddly, and likely to break if you push a pin to hard when installing.
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