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heatsink installation...

Kali · 2003-07-23 15:26:27

Was putting together a 2500XP system earlier today.. bit of a snag... Installed the heatsink (Sharkoon CUS2) as per instructions, seemed to be a lot of compound under the pull off-tab but fitted it to the cpu anyway.. turned on the pc, no problems, checked in the bios for the temperature and its at 75C, and loading an OS…

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#32 31-07-2003 10:35am

Kali

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voltage is normal (1.65) tho not rock-steady..

heatsink isn't that hot.. (id call it slightly warm).. and this is when the alarm kicks in at 65? .. plus when the PC turns on its instantly 55.. I'm trying to convince myself its faulty readings

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#33 31-07-2003 11:55am

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Left the PC on for 3 days straight with asus probe monitoring the temp of my 2500 barton, most of the time it was steady around 42/45 degrees and it peaked at 49/50 when i was playing planetside

Going to overclock it till I get it running steady around 55 and running hard at 65.

Want to wait till I get a better case though so next months paycheck better hurry up

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#34 31-07-2003 10:08pm

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Are the motherboards both the same model? Sounds like the thermistors might be unreliable

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