Am I apply as5 wrong?

[510kut]

So I got my new opty chip put it in put in a bit of as5 put the heatsink on then let it run. at idle it is around 35c and when I was running prime it got up to 50c. Did I put too much as5 or not enough as5 on? With my previous chip things at idle were about 30c and I dont think it ever got above 40c.

[n_w95482]

How much exactly did you put on? It should be something like the size of a BB or about half a grain of rice.

[lowboy]

Pictures are worth a thousand words.lol

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

[tasr]

If you follow the AS5 instructions you should be ok. If you apply to much AS5 this could give you temperature issues. AS5 also can take up to 200hr of power cycles to fully cure. Which then you could see a temp drop 5ºC - 10ºC.

[dagwoood]

Further to the above, if you gone from a single core AMD64 cpu, then you will see some temperature increases going to dual core. Logical if you think about it as there are now 2 cores running and generating heat.

 

I noticed this difference changing to my current processor after previously having an Opteron 144 in my system.

[510kut]

hmmm I was trying to follow angry games vid on installing a xp120. Yea I thought maybe it'll just take some time to cure but the impatient side of me just wants to make sure I haven't done anything wrong. The two cores generating more heat makes sense but I was looking over at the overclocking database and peopl had some pretty low temps :/

[510kut]

yikes... the thing is hitting like 55c max under load most of the time it'll stay around 50-53.... I haven't pumped that much voltage into it. And I tried putting a huge house fan right above it blowing air into the case but the temps didnt drop below 52c under load. Would too much as5 cause this or too little>

[nailzs]

Further to the above, if you gone from a single core AMD64 cpu, then you will see some temperature increases going to dual core. Logical if you think about it as there are now 2 cores running and generating heat.

 

I noticed this difference changing to my current processor after previously having an Opteron 144 in my system.

 

So true. I've seen a 5 degree Fahrenheit rise in temps with my dual core over my single core processor.

[centy]

yikes... the thing is hitting like 55c max under load most of the time it'll stay around 50-53.... I haven't pumped that much voltage into it. And I tried putting a huge house fan right above it blowing air into the case but the temps didnt drop below 52c under load. Would too much as5 cause this or too little>

 

Both, it's impossible to tell from the temperature alone.

 

It's needs to look like this

 

fig. a

 

 

fig. b

 

[davidhammock200]

If you follow the AS5 instructions you should be ok. If you apply to much AS5 this could give you temperature issues. AS5 also can take up to 200hr of power cycles to fully cure. Which then you could see a temp drop 5ºC - 10ºC.

More like 2C, maybe 5C tops, after 6 or more hot/cold cycles over 200hrs.

[510kut]

hmm ok reapplied once more lol... its at about 33 idle 45/46 load. I've been priming it for the last 8-9 hours or so. I'm not sure if its my new application of as5 or the case fan I got in the mail today that I added to exhaust air. I don't think it is the case fan as I'm running open case and yessterday I had a big butt house fan blowing into it. I took some pics but they are really blurry. Does nayone know what setting you put the digi camera to? I have a Canon. I know you can I forgot what I did last time when I took pics of my 3000+ stepping.

 

Everything else in the case seems pretty cool. Chipset is sitting at 39c PWMIC 41 vid card I havent set up to display... yay for new chipset fan