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09-22-2009, 01:08 PM
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So, when i was dusting out my computer, i decided it would be a GREAT IDEA to remove the Heatskink (not voiding the warranty, mind you, the sticker remains unbroken.) so, i take it off, blow the dust out, and put it back on, and then get told that I need to reapply the thermal goop. Oops.
it currently idles at 43 deg. C, which I think is too high, but I might be wrong. People tell me that fine, but I'm a neurotic freak. it gets up to like 50-something when I play Spore, but hasn't gone much further than that.
I guess it's fine, but do I still need to reapply the thermal goop stuff?
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09-22-2009, 01:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | | Wow, 50 degrees C? My old graphics card ran at between 80 and 95 degrees when playing demanding games (it claimed several times that it was over 110 degrees on hot days, but I figure that to be wrong). The one I got now runs at 60. What are you complaining about? |
09-22-2009, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Atlanta | | | If you didn't wipe the goop off when you took it off, then no i wouldn't worry about it...but if you are putting a heatsink bare onto the cpu, i would get some. its only like 2 bucks...well, unless you go to worst-buy...
although i see the title that says graphics card heatsink....i dont know much about newer graphics cards...i didn't think you could take the heatsink off a GC..
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09-22-2009, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by XtreO  Wow, 50 degrees C? My old graphics card ran at between 80 and 95 degrees when playing demanding games (it claimed several times that it was over 110 degrees on hot days, but I figure that to be wrong). The one I got now runs at 60. What are you complaining about? | Nothing, just wondering. I'm neurotic about things like this.
After playing spore, max temp (according to HD Monitor, great little program by the way) was 55 deg. C.
I guess that's fine.
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09-22-2009, 02:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lubbock, TX | | Mines running at 35*C right now  At that's with th fan at 50%. 40-50*C is nothing to worry about at all, but it will raise the temperature of everything else with how much it's warming up the air...
You can get Arctic Silver 5 from Radioshack, that stuff works wonders! $10 for a little tube, but it's worth it. Throw some on your CPU too.
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09-22-2009, 03:14 PM
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09-23-2009, 10:36 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | Yeah, mine gets to the high 90's consistently (and sometimes higher) when playing highly video intensive games like Crysis.
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09-23-2009, 11:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Well, my GPU diode is at 61, and the heat sink at 54.
I'm currently working on simple vector stuff, so 50 sans heat sink is quite low, really.
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09-23-2009, 11:40 AM
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09-23-2009, 11:51 AM
| | | | You should be fine, I always go overboard on the thermal goop but if there was some left over on it and covering it you should be fine.
43 isn;t that hot.
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09-23-2009, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Happynoj How do you find out what temperature things are running at? | I use CPUID by HWMonitor. http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
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