I have a Q9550 and a Xigmatek HDT S1283. The installation couldn't have been harder, but I tried it and it worked. I noticed temps crawling upward to 55c on idle! I had put too much of the thermal grease that came with the heatsink. I took it off, and reapplied Arctic 5. At stock clock, my temps are idling at 44c -ish, but with the SpeedStep ON, (running 1 gig slower than normal while idle).
A lot better, but still not good for an idling 45nm chip. What could possibly be wrong? It's not that hot in my room (but it is hotter than the rest of the house- I'm on the 3rd floor which was used mainly for storage before I moved in. There's hardly climate control, the vents up here are crap.) The heatsink, I believe is firmly down.
If I had to guess something was wrong, I'd say it's how I applied the thermal grease, but it should be ok. Could improper thermal grease installation be causing this 10c+ excess heat? If I had suspicion to believe I did something wrong, it would be because I applied a small dot in each corner of the CPU and then a dot in the center instead of the line like instructed. I then tried to install the heatsink, but something was messed up with the push pins so I removed the heatsink after the stuff had been spread a bit. I noticed a little bit of the corners hadn't been fully covered, so I used a coffee filter to spread a tiny bit of extra grease already on the CPU into those spots. I placed the heatsink back on, it went in nicely, and now here I am.
halp.
Also I'm told that the compound takes about a week to settle in and work to it's potential, but would it still be ok if I ran Prime95 to check it's 100% load temps and also play some games (ie Warhammer, Mass Effect) before that week is up?
A lot better, but still not good for an idling 45nm chip. What could possibly be wrong? It's not that hot in my room (but it is hotter than the rest of the house- I'm on the 3rd floor which was used mainly for storage before I moved in. There's hardly climate control, the vents up here are crap.) The heatsink, I believe is firmly down.
If I had to guess something was wrong, I'd say it's how I applied the thermal grease, but it should be ok. Could improper thermal grease installation be causing this 10c+ excess heat? If I had suspicion to believe I did something wrong, it would be because I applied a small dot in each corner of the CPU and then a dot in the center instead of the line like instructed. I then tried to install the heatsink, but something was messed up with the push pins so I removed the heatsink after the stuff had been spread a bit. I noticed a little bit of the corners hadn't been fully covered, so I used a coffee filter to spread a tiny bit of extra grease already on the CPU into those spots. I placed the heatsink back on, it went in nicely, and now here I am.
halp.
Also I'm told that the compound takes about a week to settle in and work to it's potential, but would it still be ok if I ran Prime95 to check it's 100% load temps and also play some games (ie Warhammer, Mass Effect) before that week is up?
. My temps are between 41 - 45
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