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**Barry_R** · 01-26-2007, 04:10 PM

If you are running the stock Intel heatsink and fan it is likely to have a thermal pad between the heatsink and the CPU. This is not the best conductor of heat and the stock fan and heatsink are marginal for a P4 running at 3.6 mhz.

At a minimum I would remove the heatsink and cleaning the old paste or thermal pad goo off the CPU and the heatsink and get a tube of Arctic Silver 5. Apply that according to the AS5 website instruction page. There are other heatsinks available that will fit the P4 chip that are much more efficient.

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Barry_R TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: California Posts: 700 OS: Win XP Home, Linux Mint My System	If you are running the stock Intel heatsink and fan it is likely to have a thermal pad between the heatsink and the CPU. This is not the best conductor of heat and the stock fan and heatsink are marginal for a P4 running at 3.6 mhz. At a minimum I would remove the heatsink and cleaning the old paste or thermal pad goo off the CPU and the heatsink and get a tube of Arctic Silver 5. Apply that according to the AS5 website instruction page. There are other heatsinks available that will fit the P4 chip that are much more efficient. Last edited by Barry_R; 01-26-2007 at 04:11 PM.