Temps I know, I know, it's been beat to death but please r..

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I have kind of a strange problem,
When I mount a new cooler (and I have tried TONS of them, right now it is a
Thermaltake 12 I believe, all copper, with a Massive fan and fan speed
controller, with fan set to high right now) it always starts out about 38 to
40 C at idle, after approx. 5 days it creeps up to around 44 to 45 C idle,
that is the CPU diode reading from the chip, socket temp is around 40 C and
case temp is 24C.(all this reported by MBM) Now this chip IS overclocked,
its a 2500+ Barton with FSB set to 200 so the machine reports it as a 3200+
I have 1 gig of PC-400 ram. Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. The machine
is stable as a rock.(always has been and it has been overclocked since day
1....about a year) It always has run at these temps, never gets over 55C
under load, I am not really worried about it as these numbers are well
within AMD specs.

Here is the part I don't get, why does it creep up after about 5 days? I am
using some old artic silver II, but have tied some others (like that cheap
white stuff packed with the coolers, and some "thermal paste" from Radio
Shack) that don't work as well, it's like the paste is loosing it's thermal
conducting properties??? Is there a better thermal paste I should use?
ANY input is greatly appreciated

TIA
Bitsbucket


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