I just bought and installed the Zalman 7000 cu. My pc is 2.4c p4, Abit IS-7 with #13 bios, Radeon 9700Pro, 1G GeIL pc3200 ram, 120G hard drive, and a DVD+RW.
I am having trouble with the cpu temperature. On the intel stock cooler, i got 45c on idle, 55 on load. When i installed the Zalman, the idle now is 40c and 50 on load. I am using the Antec Silver compound from Best Buy. (couldn't find ASIII anywhere retail)
Another thing, I have tried to reinstall the Zalman 3 times already. The first two times I got the temperatures above so I thought something is wrong, so I took it off. After I removed the heatsink, I noticed that the top left of the cpu and the heatsink wasn't in contact and the rest of the cpu is. Could this by the problem with my temperature?
I have tried to install the Zalman 7000 cu 3 times now and it improved the temperature by 5c. I thought with this baby, I can get cpu temp to the mid 30s. Please help!
Thanks
I am having trouble with the cpu temperature. On the intel stock cooler, i got 45c on idle, 55 on load. When i installed the Zalman, the idle now is 40c and 50 on load. I am using the Antec Silver compound from Best Buy. (couldn't find ASIII anywhere retail)
Another thing, I have tried to reinstall the Zalman 3 times already. The first two times I got the temperatures above so I thought something is wrong, so I took it off. After I removed the heatsink, I noticed that the top left of the cpu and the heatsink wasn't in contact and the rest of the cpu is. Could this by the problem with my temperature?
I have tried to install the Zalman 7000 cu 3 times now and it improved the temperature by 5c. I thought with this baby, I can get cpu temp to the mid 30s. Please help!
Thanks