Actually... it didn't, and that's a problem...
So, my heatsink managed to uncouple itself from my processor a few days back, and caused my computer to overheat, and my processor to die on me.
Well, this wasn't a problem, as the processor was defective to begin with, and had been reaching temperatures of 200 degrees fahrenheight, causing memory faults, and all kinds of errors. Well, I had a bunch of fun trying to fix it, bought some thermal paste, and remounted it, and spent a few days mounting and remounting the processor.
Only to find out that there was a problem with my heatsink. It had a stuck pin in one of the locks, which caused it to uncouple at random. It took me a few days to figure it out, sent it back to Intel, and argued with them for a few more days, and finally, they hooked me up with a new one, and I just slapped some Arctic silver on it, and my compy is running at a solid 140 degrees fahrenheight.
Which, some of you may think is excessively hot, but, it's not. I've got a Pentium D 3.2ghz. And, frankly, these things are also known as "Space Heaters"... Well, whatever the case, I've got the thing stable again, and I'm reflashing my BIOS, as there was a problem with that too.
Later!
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 Nov 2 2006, 8:08 pm
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ouch, atleast it is fixed.
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Actually, Dark, do some research on the Pentium D, if you don't believe me. I have six seperate fans in my case, all running around 1000-2000 RPMs. My machine is pretty quiet after startup, and still has a system temperature of only 2 degrees celsius higher than the temperature of my room.
My airflow is incredible. However, the Pentium D models have serious problems with heat. They are known to run hot, and it is because of the ammount of overclocking that has been done on the retail model to begin with. My problem lies mostly with the pre-packaged shit-fan that came with the processor. It's borderline irresponsible to package that fan with the D-series. They KNOW it runs hot, and that fan was made for a 2.1ghz, not a 3.2ghz. As for the AMD/Pentium argument, AMDs are known to have problems when overheated. AMDs are also known to not shut down before damaging themselves due to heat. Pentiums are rock solid when it comes to heat, you can't melt them, period. I'm lucky I went Pentium, otherwise, I'd have a dead AMD sitting in my motherboard. (Of course, had I bought a newer AMD, I wouldn't have this problem anyway...) | |
My CPU (AMD Athlon x2 3800+) stays around 30 degrees celsius, a big big range when compared to ~120F.
Get better airflow in your case. =p