"Derek W. Keoughan"  said:

>On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:57:56 -0300, inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:

>>While computing away,
>>On a fine day,
>>I heard what sounded like a fan stopping in my tower.

>So on that day
>Perhaps back in May...
>You jumped on it quickly, raised panic, and turned off the power...

Ah, a poet.  Are your feet longfellows?

>It's possible you baked the thermal pad between the heat sink and the
>CPU... if it's dried out, it'd be like a cracked, dry lakebed instead
>of a smooth muddy surface, and not providing the same cooling that it
>used to.

Hm, old grease fine.  New grease in place.

>It could also be that your new case fan is spinning slower than the old
>one - in which case (pun intended!) air isn't getting ejected as
>quickly.

Maybe, altho the manufacturer says they are identical.

>What "silver grease" are you using?

Fanner 700.

>Take another look at it, and replace it with another thin layer... 

Done.  No change.

>Well, older CPU designs like the AthlonXP and AthlonMP and Duron CPU's
>are more dependent on a good mating of CPU core and heat sink with
>thermal paste than the newer Athlon64, Sempron, and Pentium 4's, which
>all feature a built-on "heat spreader" to increase the surface area of
>the chip and the ability to wick away the heat...

I'm wondering if the cooler fan lost some speed.  Can't tell, because
this mobo doesn't have a speed connection.  But off the top of my head
it doesn't seem to whine as high as it used to.  Maybe I'll get one of
those new coolers with the 4 foot fan.  I've heard they are quieter.
(Yeah, I know. . .)

You know I just realized this morning that the case input fan blows
almost right into the CPU cooler inlet.  It seems it really should run
cooler than 50C on a nothing system like this.  Athlon XP 1300 running 1
HD a modem and a browser. (If I hook up another drive it automatically
turns on another case fan.)

>I've seen a few cooked out - but frankly, I don't think I've ever left
>a machine running long enough without ripping it apart somehow... I'm
>always changing my gear. :)

Yeah, I had to change my own gears on the way to my last cook-out. 

Thanks 

Jim L, via eCS 1.24 version of OS/2
-- 
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