An Interview with Arctic Silver

[Colin]

For those seeking to understand some of the problems with socket thermistors, this article (http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2001/december/011209_AS_Interview/011209_AS_Interview.htm) from Van's Hardware is an excellent read.

[mEKbOY]

great questions and you can see why he is the owner of artic silver inc. He addressed a socket thermistor problem lots of been trying to push around and did a good explanation of it and why they are off. I have learned to never trust a socket probe since my old iwill kk266 was off something like 10c and was easily manipulated by a single fan over the back of the motherboard.

[Warlord2]

yes, very good read

I hope that make some mobos that support the internal thermal diode for the XP's soon:)

[Colin]

Bump. Both newbees and veterans will find the concepts discussed in this interview valuable.

[Maximus Nickus]

Is the thing that measures tthe temps a sort of cylinder thing on two legs? On my old board its bent over so if this was it I could bent it up to touch the CPU!

Where is the sensor that gives you the system temps?

[ButcherUK]

Originally posted by nick_cw
Is the thing that measures tthe temps a sort of cylinder thing on two legs? On my old board its bent over so if this was it I could bent it up to touch the CPU!

Yes that's the sensor, it's marginally better touching the bottom of the cermaic with a bit of AS2 on but still not great.


Where is the sensor that gives you the system temps?
In the southbridge or close by it.

[Maximus Nickus]

Time to cool my southbridge!!!!

[Colin]

Since this is on the front page today, bump.