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I picked up some artic silver paste and reset it again tonight. its running around 27-29 @ idle. Also put a PCI slot cooler in to suck some heat from the video card. Its still freezing on me though. I got into BIOS right after it froze and checked temps and it was 42 then. Doesnt seem obscene to...

I took it off and reset it again after i noticed it was running so hot and the spread on it was pretty good. Im pretty sure that it was enough. As for case cooling, i have two fans in the back and one in the middle of the side. But like I said, I had the side open for a while too and it...

I did all that last night Sam. I used some rubbing alcohol and removed all the paste that was on there and then reapplied a small amount. About a grain of rice as I have read and reseated it. I made sure that the sink was pushed down and didnt move any. I hate those pushpin holddowns though. LOL

newb here. i recently built a P4 2.8ghz 775 socket w/ gigabyte mobo. The CPU fan is the intel one that comes standard with the 775 chip. Id been having trouble running half life 2 with it. I was tracking down different things. Thought maybe I had too much running in the background...