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- Nov 14, 2006
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- Warsaw/Poland
Yesterday evening and night, I installed my first ever better-than-stock cooler. It was an SLK 947U. The current readings of temperature tend to say:
Sys 36C
CPU 46C
PWM 36C
Now, sys shows iprovement if not by very far. I was able to feel the airflow even on an open case. The powerful 8*8 fan on the CPU heatsink probably helps, as well as a recycled "new" 6*6 low-rotation sysfan (by low I mean around 700 and it has a barely noticeable flow, but hey, it was recycled).
PWM shows drastic improvement compared to before - this may be due to the fact I applied Arctic Silver 5 before putting the cooler back after cleaning it a bit.
It's my impression that CPU temp should be much lower. After all, my Celeron 2.4 GHz on the same Northwood core, with stock Intel box cooling, scored around 40 in idle and not really more than 54 in high high stress. So I'm a bit disappointed. I know that 2.6c will emit more heat than 2.4 C-elereon, but still. It's over half a kilo of copper plus liquid silver in between it and the CPU. Also, the Celeron and the box cooler worked without paste. There were some remnants but it was removed a couple of times for cleaning and all and paste wasn't applied because I had none. So now I use half a kilo of copper from Thermalright along with one of the best pastes ever, 99% silver and all, and I get worse temps on a slighty sweatier processor? :S
So, am I right or am I not? Is it possible that I applied too much paste? They said on the CPU and on the heatsink base, which I did... They say this cooler can cool a heavily overclocked Barton to 50 degrees, so maybe I did something wrong.
I would test it, but I don't have much more of the good paste and can't get more until next weekend - and promised my friend some for his proc, so I'd rather not use it for experimentation. Please don't feel offended by my not finding out on my own instead of asking.
Sys 36C
CPU 46C
PWM 36C
Now, sys shows iprovement if not by very far. I was able to feel the airflow even on an open case. The powerful 8*8 fan on the CPU heatsink probably helps, as well as a recycled "new" 6*6 low-rotation sysfan (by low I mean around 700 and it has a barely noticeable flow, but hey, it was recycled).
PWM shows drastic improvement compared to before - this may be due to the fact I applied Arctic Silver 5 before putting the cooler back after cleaning it a bit.
It's my impression that CPU temp should be much lower. After all, my Celeron 2.4 GHz on the same Northwood core, with stock Intel box cooling, scored around 40 in idle and not really more than 54 in high high stress. So I'm a bit disappointed. I know that 2.6c will emit more heat than 2.4 C-elereon, but still. It's over half a kilo of copper plus liquid silver in between it and the CPU. Also, the Celeron and the box cooler worked without paste. There were some remnants but it was removed a couple of times for cleaning and all and paste wasn't applied because I had none. So now I use half a kilo of copper from Thermalright along with one of the best pastes ever, 99% silver and all, and I get worse temps on a slighty sweatier processor? :S
So, am I right or am I not? Is it possible that I applied too much paste? They said on the CPU and on the heatsink base, which I did... They say this cooler can cool a heavily overclocked Barton to 50 degrees, so maybe I did something wrong.
I would test it, but I don't have much more of the good paste and can't get more until next weekend - and promised my friend some for his proc, so I'd rather not use it for experimentation. Please don't feel offended by my not finding out on my own instead of asking.
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