My computer does not like itself

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Penguini

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In my other thread, I posted 3 main problems with my comp, and I fixed all of them. Now here comes some very confusing questions.

In the first thread, two of the problems were this

2. My new HSF, the POLO 735 3-in-1 cooler from Thermaltake (won like 8 awards or something) does not like my CPU (Athlon 2500+ Barton). In fact, my old aluminum HSF with 1/2 the CFM works better than it. I have installed it 6 times with 2 different types of thermal paste. I only managed to get this baby to run by setting it on stock settings (it was at 200FSB with my first HSF, stock is 166) and by putting an excess amount of thermal grease onto it (were talking about 1/7 of the tube). I tried putting it on the HSF first, on the core first, etc. No go on that before the glob of it I put on. And, like I said, its working a lot worse than my first HSF.

3. My new GPU cooler, the Arctic Cooler Rev. 3, is working terribly. Even on stock settings, the VPU recovery still comes in and "saves the day" and doesn't like any of my games. When I was loading Call of Duty, my comp froze on the loading screen. I used Arctic Silver 5 (not nearly as much as I used on my CPU).
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I got the heat problem down (literally), but the computer doesn't seem to think its down. The heat is no problem, I had my Athlon 2500+ Barton running at 200FSB at 38C. And ever since I installed the Arctic Cooler right, the card no longer feels hot. But the computer keeps contantly crashing. 3dmark2001 crashes in the middle of the first test. Call of Duty crashes to the Windows XP blue screen of death (I used to think that fucker was rare until now) after about 45 seconds of playing. After those small test, I still can't feel any major heat on the video card (9500 Pro).

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
 
Could this be because I did not remove the shim around the core before installing the GPU cooler?
 
Penguini said:
Could this be because I did not remove the shim around the core before installing the GPU cooler?
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If the shim is slightly higher than the core, then yes, it would prevent the HS from making proper contact with the core. The only way to be certain is to try it without the shim.
 
Elledan said:
If the shim is slightly higher than the core, then yes, it would prevent the HS from making proper contact with the core. The only way to be certain is to try it without the shim.
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I read about a solution which involved putting a larger amouint of the silicone paste so it fills the gap more. And it worked fairly well.
 
I heard that the more thermal paste you use, the worse the results will be.

You're supposed to put a very thin layer of paste on, just enough to make contact with the processor and the heatsink. All the thermal paste does is transfer the heat, and I think if you have too much, it hinders the heat transfer.

Again, that's what I've heard, maybe someone can step in and confirm it.
 
Milenko said:
I heard that the more thermal paste you use, the worse the results will be.

You're supposed to put a very thin layer of paste on, just enough to make contact with the processor and the heatsink. All the thermal paste does is transfer the heat, and I think if you have too much, it hinders the heat transfer.

Again, that's what I've heard, maybe someone can step in and confirm it.
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Metal conducts heat better than thermal paste. Thermal paste conducts heat better than air.

So if there's a gap, bridging it with thermal paste will work, only not as efficiently as having the metal touch the die directly.
 
Elledan said:
Metal conducts heat better than thermal paste. Thermal paste conducts heat better than air.

So if there's a gap, bridging it with thermal paste will work, only not as efficiently as having the metal touch the die directly.
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Maybe someday I'll work up the courage to remove the shim, then.
 
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