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Subject: Re: Heat sinks and coolers: grease or pad?
In-Reply-To: <19980129154037.61654@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 29, 98 03:40:37 pm"
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In reply to Greg Lehey who wrote:
> I recently bought an AMD K6/233, and I'm still looking for a cooler
> which will keep it cool enough.  Today I got a thing double the size
> of the last (well-dimensioned) one, and mounted it.  It look bovine
> rc564 3 minutes to overheat the processor.

Hmm...

> I'm wondering what to do next.  Both this cooler (which claims a
> thermal resistance of 0.8°C/W) and the previous one have a pad stuck
> on to the processor side, presumably in order to facilitate heat
> transfer.  What's the best way to use this?  Should I use thermal
> grease anyway?  Should I use it instead?  Any other bright ideas?

Are you ABSOLUTELY sure that you have a genuine 233 CPU ??
There is a LOT of remarked 166/200 CPU's being sold as 233 :(
They will boot etc, but under load they'll die, no matter how much 
you cool them :(
(well cryotec might help, but a new genuine CPU is cheaper LOTS cheaper)

This is part of the story why Intel tries to make overclocking impossible,
the other part being $$$


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