i may have messed up, please help me

[wotevajjjj]

hi,

so i got my dark rock today, installed it, but at idle it already runs a full degree higher than with my stock cooler and even worse, if i run prime which was no problem with the old one, it goes up to 60°, pc shuts down and i'm unhappy..

could it be that i used way to little thermal paste ? i put the cpu on the right way, right bios setting for the fan good airlow in my case etc.

so all i know that could have went wrong is the paste. i used enough to cover the entire cpu but i could still see trough it..

 

[hmmblah]

You only want a thin layer. I usually apply a rice grain (maybe a tad bigger) to the center of the CPU and use the heatsink itself to squish and thin out the paste evenly. Back in the Athlon XP days I used to thin it out with a razor blade.

I'd re-apply the tim and redo the heatsink. Double check your installation, that's the more likely culprit.

What CPU do you have?

 

[benj3]

Yep deffinetly reseat the cooler and get some new good thermal paste not the cheap crap see if it continues

 

[wotevajjjj]

fixed it already

i used waaaaaaaaaaaa....aaay to little grease and installed it a bit sideways

damn this this is amazing now

u just can't possibly hear it

 

[Stryker64]

With thermal paste, less is more. The fact is metal is a better conductor of heat than thermal paste. For example, Arctic Cooling has a conductivity value of 8.5w/mk. Aluminium has a thermal conductivity of around 250w/mk and air has a conductivity of 0.024w/mk. The whole point of thermal compound is to plug in the gaps between the cooler and the CPU so there isn't any air there, not to make it float on it.

Well that's my view on the matter, but since you've fixed it I guess there isn't anything to worry about, but personally I think less than a grain of rice is all you need, unless you have a heatpipe direct touch cooler with gaps, than you need to put more.

 

[benj3]

deffinetly zeals less is more

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