Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 17:12:54 12/08/02
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On December 07, 2002 at 14:32:41, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 07, 2002 at 12:41:21, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>Time ago I had for my Me Windows a "Rain" little program capable of cooling the >>cpu. Now I use an Athlon and XP winows and it seems there is not an equivalent >>to the rain thing. WAnybody knows what to do? I am afraid any day my PC will >>just explode. >>Fernando > >Windows XP doesn't need this "rain" program. The only reason Win95/98/ME do is >because of gross oversight. > >79 C sounds a bit warm. The average temperature on the 7 AMD systems I have >built within the past year is around 50 C. Even my Thunderbird 1.2 GHz (65.7 W >chip) runs at 35-42 C in my room (27 C). Speaking of which, it is the difference >between ambient (temperature of case) and CPU that matters. Because of the >physics, the rate of thermal transfer is dependant on the temperature drop. Then the solution is simple. Just purchase a quiet air conditioner and blow the cool air into the computer. : ) Bob D. > >I have a couple systems with Thermalright SK6 heatsinks. However, I have found >that the AMD heatsinks that come on retail box chips are also quite effective. >Using the AMD heatsink instead of the $40 SK6, my temperature was only about 5 C >higher on the couple systems that I've used it with. > >The only thing I have had trouble with is the thermal tape that comes already on >the heatsink. This stuff is responsible for 15+ C increase in temperature. Get a >tube of Artic Silver 3 (~$8), and if you have thermal tape on the bottom of your >heatsink, a bottle of Ronsonal lighter fluid (~$2 at 7-11). The Ronsonal will >dissolve the tape. After that, rub a thin layer of Artic Silver 3 into the >heatsink, and put a thin (~1 mm) layer on the CPU. > >-Matt
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