Old Pentium3 server questions.

[tsuehpsyde]

Recently I started running a Counter-Strike:Source webserver/gameserver out of my old Pentium3 box and my cable internet (512MB PC133 memory, 6meg down 512k up cable). As of the past week or so, it's had a pretty regular workload which makes me wonder how well the thermal compound is holding out in there for my P3. It's a 750MHz Coppermine at stock clocks (kind of want to overclock since the CPU is bottlenecking @ over 14 players and I run a 16 slot server) and it's been untouched since I got it back in 1999 or 2000. So it's been 4 or 5 years now and I diddn't know how stock paste held up. If it's probably no an issue, I'll forget about it until I have any issues with the server (which I havn't) since they don't have a heatspreader and I've yet to try applying thermal paste on an open core.

Thoughts?

 

[ScHpAnKy]

Anything is better than running bare core, I'd say to go for it (the bare chips are easiesr to apply a TIM to)

 

[FunkStar]

Just re-apply some if you have some handy, can't hurt, but if you cant then i wouldnt worry too much. Also, if you got any spare cash i'd buy another stick of ram for the sake of it, it'll help performance probably as much as o/cing it does.