Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
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Is now cured.
I bought a Antec heatsink/fan and its dropped my CPU temp from 61'c idle to 50'c idle. The fan is actually smaller than my old CoolerMaster sink/fan which ran at 2750RPM - the new one runs at 4500rpm and is only a tiny bit noisier (but noise isnt an issue for me really)
CPU was only at 54'c under 85% load so an all round improvement for me.
Ben.
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Corsa Sport Gav
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Registered: 12th Feb 03
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nice one 
mines runs 39'c idle and 45'c - 50'c on full
thts with oem fan and heat sink
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Tiger
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Bet its an Intel aint it?
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Chump
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Registered: 1st Feb 04
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did u use thermal compound when sticking the new sink on?
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Tiger
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No, only because I used the supplied 'Thermal Pad' even I know that their not too great but i'll change it in a 6 months or so with some Dow Corning.
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Chump
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they're fine if you dont do any overclocking....
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Tiger
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Nah - not overclocked - not worth it - dont think I would be able to make a noticeable change to my system anyway as its only an Athlon XP1800+
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Chump
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overclocking's only for Stat Fan boys anyway....tis a false economy
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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How is it?
I'm overcloked by about 600mhz, fsb turned up quite a bit.
It makes it much faster.
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