Heatsinks

[Keikan]

When I'm gonna go get my new puter I probably won't have a fancy cooling setup yet, i'll probably will have a amd stock heatsink with a "thermal pad". Will the thing fry when I try to play a game?

[Virtualbody1234]

No.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Keikan@18 March 2004 - 19:30
When I'm gonna go get my new puter I probably won't have a fancy cooling setup yet, i'll probably will have a amd stock heatsink with a "thermal pad". Will the thing fry when I try to play a game?

amd would be in big trouble if playing a game with there heatysyns fried the cpu.

[Keikan]

ya well what will the temp be like? can you oc?

[kaiweiler]

what cpu are you getting?
I know the stock heatsink that comes with the 2500+ is very good and you can oc quite high with it!

[bigdawgfoxx]

Yeah, the stock HS is good, and is what I use.

Take the thermal pad off and put thermal paste though.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@18 March 2004 - 22:58
Yeah, the stock HS is good, and is what I use.

Take the thermal pad off and put thermal paste though.

Yup, and I and almost everyone else will recommend Arctic Silver 5 for that

[Keikan]

Ya but you see I'll probably be using the thermal pad for a while...

how do you even take off the thermal pad?

[Virtualbody1234]

It will still be ok with the thermal pad so you can leave it.

But it's better with Arctic silver (a few degrees). You can remove it with your fingernail and then some rubbing alcohol.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Keikan@18 March 2004 - 22:03
Ya but you see I'll probably be using the thermal pad for a while...

how do you even take off the thermal pad?

scrape it with ur finger nail to get the huge amounts off, and then use rubbing alcohol or lighter fluid (lighter fluid works really good) to remove the little amounts that are left.

it is a lot easier to remove the thermal pad before it has been used becuase it will after be sticky and also has to be removed from the processor.