Hey people,
I just applied thermal paste to my CPU. I hope I have done it correctly. I cleaned my stock Intel LGA 775 heatsink fan a few days ago but didn't clean the heatsink from the old thermal paste.
I am now writing this immediately after applying the thermal paste and am getting around 1-2 degrees Celsius lesser than the previous situation where at idle, temperatures were wandering around 50-57 degrees Celsius (before it was 41-43) and with load, it was around 80-90 degrees (before it was 60-65). I know I should wait a bit longer but what is the reasonable time period I should wait before I see temperatures returning to normal? Also, will temperatures start looking good after a few PC shutdown-start cycles?
I have used a Cooler Master HTK-002 thermal paste and my PC specs are-
Mobo: ASUS P5KPL AM/PS Motherboard
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 667 MHz
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GT 240
450W PSU
I just applied thermal paste to my CPU. I hope I have done it correctly. I cleaned my stock Intel LGA 775 heatsink fan a few days ago but didn't clean the heatsink from the old thermal paste.
I am now writing this immediately after applying the thermal paste and am getting around 1-2 degrees Celsius lesser than the previous situation where at idle, temperatures were wandering around 50-57 degrees Celsius (before it was 41-43) and with load, it was around 80-90 degrees (before it was 60-65). I know I should wait a bit longer but what is the reasonable time period I should wait before I see temperatures returning to normal? Also, will temperatures start looking good after a few PC shutdown-start cycles?
I have used a Cooler Master HTK-002 thermal paste and my PC specs are-
Mobo: ASUS P5KPL AM/PS Motherboard
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 667 MHz
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GT 240
450W PSU