HI

I have a custom built Athlon 1.333 which was reaching temperatures up to 62
deg Celcius on a hot day.
I took it back to the supplier who fitted a volcano 6Cu fan/heatsink using
a silver based heat transfer paste (possibly arctic  silver), and 2 case
exhaust fans. It already had an inlet fan in the front.  Since then the CPU
has not registered more than 48 deg C.

When I was there he showed me the shim supplied by AMD and said they had
had several chips burn out after fitting the shim as it stood the heat sink
off from the top of the chip.  Since then they stopped using them for
obvious reasons.

Based on that info I would proceed with caution.

My system is running at an ok temperature now with little or no extra
noise, so you may want to look at the volcano/ silver paste combo as an option.

Leigh Jennings

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>Subject: Athlon Shim/Heatsink
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>Hi all,
>I am currently building my first Athlon system, an XP 1600+ on a Soyo Tek
>Dragon+ mobo. I purchased a Thermaltake Volcano 6, some Coolermaster heat
>sink paste, and the Thermaltake cpu shim.
>My question is:
>Do I need to apply heat sink paste to both sides of the shim, just one, or
>none at all? Of course, I will apply some to the top of the cpu chip in the
>center. I was just wondering if the shim also needs to draw heat from the
>fiberglass board part of the cpu, or if doing so might raise the heatsink up
>off the center cpu chip. What do you builders do?
>thanks,
>Steve Dias

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