X2 3800 running at 113C under full load. :|

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How frightening!

...... does your desk run faster with the extra ram?
 
haha OP, i literally went :eek: when i first read that.

Never had that problem... thank god o_o.

i bet eclipse's desk OC's pretty well now..
 
Haha that's the second time I've been put into someone's sig on these forums. The first time was because of a really awkward joke I made though, not because of my n00bishness. Just be sure to fix my typo in your sig... attacked = attached. "attacked" is what I was doing to the CPU during this whole thing. :p

Wow this thread has continued longer than I thought it would.
 
rofl! The thermal pads that come with stock coolers are crap anyway. I scrape off the thermal pad, clean the heatsink, lap it, clean it again, and then apply some cheap silicone paste (the same stuff that came with my SLK-800a back in the day). and then install it. It makes a 5-10C improvement over stock cooling without spending a dime.
 
Mr. Headshot said:
rofl! The thermal pads that come with stock coolers are crap anyway. I scrape off the thermal pad, clean the heatsink, lap it, clean it again, and then apply some cheap silicone paste (the same stuff that came with my SLK-800a back in the day). and then install it. It makes a 5-10C improvement over stock cooling without spending a dime.
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5-10C? Are you sure? Most people say that Arctic Silver only makes a 1-2C difference... 5-10C is like a VERY high performance air cooler/watercooling difference....
 
man, that cpu is definitely burned in for OC!!

but DUMBASS!!! lol

the stuff on the AMD CPU HSFs for K8 is not crap actually, it's Shin Etsu compound which, IMO, is even better than AS5. I use AS5 myself cuz Shin Etsu is a bit tough to find up there in Canada.
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
why not? ;)


running it that hot is never good, regardless of the circumstances, unless you're trying to kill it quickly. burn-in is generally a myth anyway.



i've put ram in backwards SO many times, it's amazing. especially ddr2 T_T
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I'd say burn-in (full system) is good for use with servers. Wouldn't want to throw a production rig on the rack and have something die the next day (or hour).
 
This reminds me of a server I used to run for Counter-Strike 1.5 back in the day...

One day, it shut down unexpectedly and wouldn't POST. I opened the system, and burned myself REALLY bad on the heatsink. I messed with everything and reset the BIOS. It booted again. So I checked the temps, and was running IDLE at 110C! Load was in 120's. I didn't care about the thing enough to do anything too great about it, so I slapped on a larger heatsink (ghetto-mount w/ rubber bands and zip-ties ftw) and let that mofo run for another year before the heat from the CPU killed the mobo.

The CPU still is good too. :D

Eclipse- I didn't realize you could run a chip without a heatsink like that... Then again, you are at an obscenely low voltage... Either way, that's kick ass. I need to try that sometime.

Back on topic... Glad to hear you got it fixed, OP. This is the first time I've ever heard of someone forget to remove the plastic. Good thing CPUs are durable.
 
damn glad to see amd is doing better now. i'm sure we all remember the tbird and palomino results from the thg video
 
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