athlon overheating!!!help

[k10]

i bought an AMD athlon 1000mhz system
the cpu temperature gets to 57 celcius whithin the first half hour at idle, can someone tell me why its heating up so much, i have a superorb heatsink by Thermaltake but i have not put any silicon paste when installing the heatsink.
thanks

 

[Fink]

Pull out the plug and step away from the computer. Get in your car and go to radioshack. Buy thermal compound (~$5). Go home. Put a thin layer of thermal compound between the heatsink and the processor. Plug computer back in. See temperature drop 20C. That is all.*


*if outside of US, disregard the radioshack bit.

 

[Scorp006]

lol...

 

[surlyjoe]

lapping that rice bowl of an orb wont hurt either

 

[kat]

Fink (Jan 19, 2001 07:43 p.m.):
Pull out the plug and step away from the computer. Get in your car and go to radioshack. Buy thermal compound (~$5). Go home. Put a thin layer of thermal compound between the heatsink and the processor. Plug computer back in. See temperature drop 20C. That is all.*

even better than that go to radio shack and pay1.09 for thermal grease and watch 20 degree`s melt away


*if outside of US, disregard the radioshack bit.