Thermal paste and mounting of new cpu cooler

[gvblake22]

Those temps seem ok; a bit high, bit nothing too outrageous. Your video card is actually probably doing pretty well if it is at 56 with just a passive cooler.

[Michael]

Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge, so that I can now relax and enjoy my system. Nice to know about my videocard that it is managing well too.

Best regards

Michael

[gvblake22]

The thing you have to remember with passive heatsinks is that they rely on the airflow inside the system from everything else. So if the airflow is poor or the heatsink gets a layer of dust settled on it, your cooling performance will degrade quickly. Just keep an eye on it and clean your system out every few months or so.

[Michael]

Thank you for that advice too. Good for me to know - I will keep that in mind!

[Michael]

Hello again. I would be happy for your comment on this:

I think there must have been a little cure time after all with my OCZ paste after all. Because now my cool'n'quiet fan is very low - around 840 RPM. That is one third of the max, and you can barely hear anything. And that is great.

But I think this causes the increased temperature I get now on my GPU thou.

It is now - even if I am in 2D mode all the time at 65 C. And if I underclock down on minimal speed it only reduces the temp to 64 C.

I wonder if that is OK or if I should get af slot fan. As far as I can see, they are not too quiet, and I guess that would spoil the silence (I have the Ninja Mini, the fanless vga and a semifanless powersuply and 2 120mm cabin fans and a 80mm cpu fan).

My GPU is a MSI 512MB 7600GT-TD512Z Passiv AGP.

What do you think, is 65 C on the GPU ok?

(When I let the system work hard - with my Flight simulator, fsx - the cpu gets so busy that it makes the cpufan rise its RPM and then the GPU temp decreases down to 56 C because of the fanspeed rising)

Best regards

Michael

[gvblake22]

I don't see how the CPU fan could affect the video card temperatures that much, I have a feeling there is something else going on here. If you want your CPU fan to spin at full speed, just connect it directly to a lead on the power supply instead on the header on the motherboard. Connecting it to the power supply directly will keep it constantly running at 12V (full speed) whereas the motherboard BIOS is slowing the fan speed down depending on the temperature it reads.