Arctic Silver II & Pentium III - how long?

[Nex]

I recently endowed my P3 800e with a dab of Arctic Silver II, my heatsink and fan combination being an Alpha P3125S Slot 1 heatsink with 2 60MM YS-Tech fans.
I was wondering if anyone could give me a pretty accurate guess of how long it would take to burn/break this lot in?
I'm overclocking on a BE6 @ 124fsb@1.75v.
I'm running a couple of CPU-intensive apps, and have been going for about 20hrs or so without running any 3D games which is where the problems start. 3D games lock up on me a lot, so I got the Arctic Silver II to try and get stability (I previously had generic thermal grease). The website says you need 48hrs to get the ASII to its maximum conductivity. Would that be real time, meaning I have 28 hours to go?
Cheers.

[Endeavor]

welcome to the fourms,
48 hrs sounds about right although you usually see temp drops immedtiatly

[Nex]

Thanks on both counts.
I don't have a temperature diode on my P3, but my Winbond chip IS reporting a temperature for it which seems pretty good. The temperature, that is. Unfortunately I can't compare with before as I never checked the CPU temperature.

[Endeavor]

a good idle temp is 30-39C and a good working temp is 40-49C

but of course, anything colder is better :)

[Nex]

I get temperatures of about 37C.
That's as high as I've seen it, what with some number crunching programs going on in the background.
Like I say, I don't know how accurate that number is seeing as I've not got an actual temperature diode on my P3.

[Celemine1Gig]

All Pentium III processrs have an internal temp. diode! And if you have a hrdware monitoring chip on the mainboard, it should be able to read the temp. diode !!!!