Author Topic: Thermal Gels (Read 3191 times)

« **Reply #15 on:** September 18, 2002, 08:26:12 PM »

Don\'t order from coldcpu.com they sent me wrong gels and didn\'t respond to any of my e-mails.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2002, 08:39:22 PM »

welp, i\'ve added the Arctic silver 3 too my cpu. I\'m getting 41c and it gets up too 44c when playing games.. It\'s what i wanted. VERY good for my processor.. This is the first day too, It\'s meant to drop another 2c to 5c over the next 75 hours etc. So hopefully it gets lower. I think the gel i was using had a air pocket. So it was trapping heat. :/

« **Reply #17 on:** September 22, 2002, 10:23:19 PM »

U using a P4? That\'s high for a P4 isn\'t it? My T-bird runs 48c at idle.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #18 on:** September 22, 2002, 10:27:10 PM »

i\'m using a Athlon XP not p4.
I\'m also looking into getting a new Sink/fan, The Thermaltake Volcano 7+ is looking pretty good to me.

Got great reviews at lots of sites. One of the top rated sinks. Costs a fair bit though for a sink.

« **Reply #19 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:52:02 AM »

But, but §ôµÏG®ïñD you told me not to get a AMD and you got one yourself. Hmmmmm!

My CPU temp right now is 35C.. When I play games it can go upto 45 or so, but I still don’t have any case fans so Im using a Table Fan to get ventilation (with the case open of course)

Oh and Im getting my GPU today so I\'ll see if my games "freezing" problem gets better..

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #20 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:53:40 AM »

I did, hmmm.. must of been when i had not ever used one.. Thinking a lot like mm, i must of told you in the thought that they fry easily.. Unless your stupid. They don\'t.

« **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:54:37 AM »

yeah, some magical force keeps them from overheating

*yawn*

« **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2002, 02:57:24 AM »

Yeah you told me that when you worked with computers alot of customers came back with fried AMD processors..

To be on the safe side I got a heatsink that was good for 1.7GHz for my 1.6GHz CPU.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:07:00 AM »

yea they still do, usererror mostly.. Morons don\'t install there own sinks properly.. half of them don\'t even use thermal gels.. classic.

mm, there\'s a difference from overheating and getting hot. My processor may get warm/hot. But it\'s never overheated. I\'m using a standard sink that came with my processor.. I BET your not hmm. My cpu sits idle at 41c and 44-45c while playing games.. that\'s 7c more then yours.. not much man. When i get my new sink, It\'ll drop a fair bit more.

There\'s thermal diodes on the new mbs now... My mb doesn\'t have a thermal diode, but does measure the temps.. So if my cpu were to get above 65c. It\'ll shut off my comp. I run my machine 24/7 only to turn it off when i play around with hardware etc... Hasn\'t shutdown on me yet.

« **Reply #24 on:** September 23, 2002, 03:50:42 AM »

AMD\'s nowadays are fine. Now they also have thermal diodes as Souly said. GO AMD, w00t!

« **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:23:59 AM »

like i said, AMD = second class

and intel outdistances them every day

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:30:00 AM »

For the price.. you\'d hope so.

« **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:48:02 AM »

think of it this way

you pay 20,000 for a mustang for a reason
you pay 10,000 for a geo for an entirely different one

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:54:04 AM »

OR, You don\'t buy any of them.. get a old car, Do it up to the max, and it hammers over both

« **Reply #29 on:** September 23, 2002, 06:55:21 AM »

define "do it up to the max"

you could end up spending more than the cost of both of them

Hello

Author Topic: Thermal Gels (Read 3191 times)