t-bird un oc'd running hot?

[xlR]

I just switched from a pII 350 to a athlon t-bird 1ghz with a pc chips mb807 motherboard. The chip is not overclocked. The chip came with a big heat sink and a fan that straps onto the chip and uses thermal tape. No name brand I assume. I immediately noticed that after 20 minutes of use my mouse froze and the only thing that responded was a reset. This happens continuously. I found some processor temp monitoring software and it reports the chip running at 32 C while idle. But when I run a program like HOTCPU that runs the cpu through some tuff tests, the temp goes up dramatically almost instantly and I finally shutoff HOTCPU when the cpu his 52C in less than 10 minutes. I'm guessing I need more fans but I just don't understand why I would need more than standard cooling on an un-overclocked processor? Your thoughts/suggestions on the subject as well as sugg. for ways to cool it would be appreciated....

[Vector]

Thermal tape is the devil...try scraping the stuff off and get some thermal grease.

In my experience Arctic Silver is really good, but like 15 bucks a vile...

Anyway, you're likely having some sort of heat dissipation that you'll probably want to get taken care of before you run the cpu too much

[Tachyon]

What type of heat sink/fan do you have? That may be part of your problem also.

[xlR]

I just bid 20 bucks for a GLOBALWIN FOP38 on ebay and I guess I'll pick up some thermal grease at radio shack? Or does the arctic silver make that much of a difference? What bothers me so much is why the thing is overheating out of the box without oc'ing it. I'd prefer to get the global win FOP38 from a local store so I can get it now. Any chain computer stores sell it?

[kat]

fed ex overnite

is you case in side of a desk??

if youve removed the hsf look and make sure that it is centered over the die my hedgehog will slide to the north a little and the temps will go up

also the spring on some hsf can be installed backwards the springs center is off set just a little if put on backwards you wont get even pressure