[wellylug] cpu temperature reported incorrectly
Brent Wood
pcreso at pcreso.com
Fri Oct 29 17:42:28 NZDT 2004
>
> I presume the original poster meant thermal paste - just remember you're
> trying to exclude the air from the regions where the metal doesn't make
> contact - you are not trying to create a layer of paste between the
> surfaces. The less you can get away with applying, the better. If you
> stuff it up with too much paste, you risk actually trapping a bubble of
> air and then you might as well not use it. I use an amount equal to about
> half a grain of medium rice and smooth it out with the edge of my Flybuys
> card.
Shuttle provide some with the cases. Less viscous than some others I've used.
They also provide a copper shim to sit on top of the cpu & help eliminate the
air space away from the central cpu. If you do it properly there shouldn't be a
cooling problem.
The tension holding the heatsink on a cpu tends to squash unnecessary compound
away anyway, so any surplus just gets pushed aside (& makes a mess)....
Is this really about Linux? :-)
Cheers
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