Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 03:45:45 -0800 (PST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heat sinks and coolers: grease or pad? Message-ID: <199801291145.DAA21479@hub.freebsd.org> 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 $$$ Søren
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