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| 21 JAN 2011 at 6:55am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | I see from your ***PCGuide forum thread*** that your heat sink arrived.
Too bad you didn't recognize what the thermal pad was. It would have saved you a little effort.
I guess you'll find out soon enough if the loose heat sink is the only problem.
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| 21 JAN 2011 at 3:47pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (21 JAN 2011 6:55am)
Too bad you didn't recognize what the thermal pad was. It would have saved you a little effort.
What do you mean, "too bad you didn't recognize what the thermal pad was"? - I've never seen this on a HSF before, plus I'm still learning and gaining experience as I go along, and I'm allowed to make mistakes, right?
Do you mean that I didn't have to add that thermal paste atop the CPU this time around? I wasn't sure, so to be on the safe side, I applied the thermal paste.
EDIT - Stopped in at PC Guide where they told me that I should either use the thermal pad already on the HSF or thermal compound, not both - a mistake on my part, something to chalk up as learning experience. What happens if you use both the thermal pad and thermal compound (curious)?
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 21 JAN 2011 at 7:38pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | What happens if you use both the thermal pad and thermal compound (curious)?
Use one or the other - using both will lead to overheating.
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| 22 JAN 2011 at 12:47am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By K515 (21 JAN 2011 3:46pm)
Originally Posted By Jenny100 (21 JAN 2011 6:55am)
Too bad you didn't recognize what the thermal pad was. It would have saved you a little effort.
What do you mean, "too bad you didn't recognize what the thermal pad was"?...
Do you mean that I didn't have to add that thermal paste atop the CPU this time around?
Yes. Since the thermal pad was already there, you didn't need the thermal paste. Using both the thermal pad and thermal paste is too much.
Stopped in at PC Guide where they told me that I should either use the thermal pad already on the HSF or thermal compound, not both - a mistake on my part, something to chalk up as learning experience.
Yup. No lasting harm done though. You just have to clean the mess off and reapply the thermal paste like they're telling you on pcguide.
What happens if you use both the thermal pad and thermal compound (curious)?
It would get too hot. But since it's a Pentium, it would just shut down when it got too hot rather than frying itself.
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