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escher · 01-02-2004, 10:11 PM

thermal pads are horrible IMO. they can actually insulate the cpu to an extent. get some good thermal compound like artic silver or even just regular thermal paste will work well. also the stock AMD heatsink is actually really good...so if you have one, try it out. my t-bred cpu idles at 36C with the AMD HSF + regular thermal paste instead of the pad. i do have 2 fans on the side of my case, though...

01-02-2004, 10:11 PM	#11
escher Member (8 bit) Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: GA, USA Posts: 204	thermal pads are horrible IMO. they can actually insulate the cpu to an extent. get some good thermal compound like artic silver or even just regular thermal paste will work well. also the stock AMD heatsink is actually really good...so if you have one, try it out. my t-bred cpu idles at 36C with the AMD HSF + regular thermal paste instead of the pad. i do have 2 fans on the side of my case, though... Last edited by escher; 01-02-2004 at 10:15 PM.