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To: Tony Viola who wrote (144781)	10/5/2001 4:33:48 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - the heatsink issue is not highly unlikely. I recently bought a 2P workstation with 2 1GHz PIII processors. While playing around with the heat monitoring package, I noticed that one processor was running at 42C but the other was 68C and rising. I shut the system down and looked things over. A piece of what looked like packing material had evidently stuck to the heatsink on one processor when it was installed, which kept the sink from making good thermal contact. When I pulled that out and re-seated the heatsink, both processors dropped down to the 40C range. There was no way to tell by looking at the heatsink that there was a tiny air gap between the sink and the silicon - it was snug, locked down, everything looked good. I also have a pair of 1.2 GHz Athlon boxes - after seeing Tom's video, I gave those babies a thorough rundown! Unfortunately there was no built in temperature monitoring software, but fortunately I have good capability in that area since I use portable thermal monitoring gear to measure the inlet and exhaust temperatures on my Lotus to tune the boost and intercooler settings. The Athlon heatsinks were correctly mounted, but the idle temperature was up close to 50C. I cleared out the air path a little and added a case fan to suck more air past the cpu to compensate, which got it down to the mid-40s. If the packing material problem had happened on the Athlon boxes, I suspect I would have been buying more than a cooling fan.