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Recent content by ScanIAm

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    Lapping question

    Those temperatures are pretty decent given: 1) I live in North Florida and it's already 'shorts season'. 2) I'm using an Antec Lanboy case with an ATI AIW 9800 Pro GPU. The airflow in this case sucks a dry (hot) wind. 3) I don't let the A/C get below 75F...I moved to florida for a reason...
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    Lapping question

    I just lapped my heatsink using this kit: http://www.easypckits.com/products/premiumlk/ from EasyPCKits. I had never done it before, but my AMD XP 2600+ was dying a slow painful death running at aroun 67C. The kit came with some Arctic Silver ceramique, so I tried putting that on before...
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    CPU speed vs. Heat

    On a side note, the issue was the stock pad/whatever that came with the cooler (Thermaltake Volcano 10+). Put some ceramique on and it's running at 57C. I'll be lappin that puppy this weekend.
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    CPU speed vs. Heat

    Mayo probably would have worked much better than the crap I bought: http://www.overclockers.com/articles938/
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    CPU speed vs. Heat

    Yep...I'm guessing that if I lap the CPU, I'll be in some trouble...
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    CPU speed vs. Heat

    I have an AMD XP 2600+ and it's been running hot for the last few weeks. At Idle, it's 61C, but right now, it's running at 67C so I'm going to lapp it. Further, I was one of the suckers who picked up bogus thermal paste so I'll be fixing that as well. My question is, does a higher amount...
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