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P4 Dust

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ras786

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I was replacing my retail p4 heatsink with a Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu and I found all this dust on the p4 itself....Is that normal?

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It's normal. This the first time you took off the heatsink?
The pic is huge, you should resize it. :D
 
I've taken my heatsink off my P4 and older AMD rigs a couple of times and have never seen dust like that. Do you have any air filters in your case? Looks like you put alot of thermal paste on too. Just a little rice grain sized bit in the middle is perfect for a P4, you don't even have to spread it around the heatsink will do that for you.
 
That much thermal paste could be your hsf man.,.... passivly :D

and i never used the retail but wtf is that "ring" looks like a quater
 
The newer retail heatsinks have a round copper core surrounded by aluminum fins in kind of a spiral. I think that round thing is that copper core which makes contact with the CPU.
 
haha yes it was a bit of thermal paste....but if you look closely there are a lot of gaps in the paste....and the spiral circle in the middle is in the center and i guess what happens is on the retail heatsink when the metal starts to fan out, the gaps in the heatsink are still in contact with the processor when it fans out.......So dust comes in....but the question is why would intel use such a stupid design :eek:
 
here's a pic of the retail heatsink to show you the copper circular center :D

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Just a little rice grain sized bit in the middle is perfect for a P4
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-responding to that do...any of you have pics on good application of thermal paste before you put your heatsink on?

-also I have a lian li pc-65 there are air filters in the front next to my hard drive but not in the back fan which is close to the processor....so i guess that shoud have a big impact
 
With that heatsink, it is apparent that the dust is blown through the fins and onto the processor since there isnt an actual base on the bottom to keep the dust out. That is okay I guess.
 
is that application of thermal paste specifically for arctic silver or is that the standard amount?
 
Originally posted by sackowitz
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

See note #10 for P4.
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Wow, I've always had fairly decent luck with the paste aspect of cooling but I've never done it like THAT. I've always just put some on and spread it around so that it's a paper thin coat ontop of the heat spreader. Maybe I'll have to try re-applying it sometime this week seeing as I'm going insane with my air temps. ;)

Thx
 
man cornelious0_0 how you gettin such good temps with the zalman? I installed the same one on my p4 3.0ghz c and I'm gettin like 43-45C horrible temps.....I'm sure i put too much thermal paste, but I have a lian li pc 65, two out-take fans, two intake fans.....and I'm running the zalman without the fanmate controller.......
 
Originally posted by ras786
man cornelious0_0 how you gettin such good temps with the zalman? I installed the same one on my p4 3.0ghz c and I'm gettin like 43-45C horrible temps.....I'm sure i put too much thermal paste, but I have a lian li pc 65, two out-take fans, two intake fans.....and I'm running the zalman without the fanmate controller.......
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My LiLi never had very good airflow.....horrible in fact. My case temps were always way to high for my liking, and that's where ALL you others temps come from. If your room and/or case are fairly warm, what do you fans really have to work with. ;)
 
but literally my case itself is cold to the touch, and i got pretty good temps with my retail heatsink (34-36 C), so i still think i put too much paste because i made sure every inch of the processor was covered......
 
Originally posted by ras786
but literally my case itself is cold to the touch, and i got pretty good temps with my retail heatsink (34-36 C), so i still think i put too much paste because i made sure every inch of the processor was covered......
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Yeah, maybe just redo the compound. I'm actually very curious to see what kind of gains (if any) I might see by only putting a litle dab on like it shows on the Arctic Silver site. I've never had any problems but who knows. ;)
 
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