If you read this thread, you'll know how my CPU ran into some overheating nightmares. 
I blamed it "totally" on the mobo, saying that the readings are all wrong, and 97C is not possible because the CPU is anyway supposed to throttle at those temps (well, at any temp beyond T-Junction, which is 85C for my CPU) But it didn't throttle and the obvious thing to do was to blame it on the mobo.
Yesterday, I downloaded CoreTemp, which is now (amazingly) compatible with Vsita x64 (ok ok, Windows Server 2008 x64
) as they have signed their drivers (what?! when all these "other" software developers couldn't do it!), and checked the temps. 68C idle. Well...still it could be the damned mobo sensor. That's the easy way out of this situation. Blame it on the poor! 
But after some digging in, I found out that most people recommend CoreTemp as a reliable temperature monitoring tool, and I was sort of worried about this. 68C idle! Bloody hell!
Then I ran the blend test of Prime95 (x64, and the multithreaded version) and I could get the temps easily up to 85C and even CoreTemp went crazy and started showing weird values like 127C! (85C, then 127C...not a real value of course...but still, something is wrong) 85C is the temp my CPU should start to throttle at.
Good thing that gayannr was there to offer his sympathies to me on MSN
Anyway, I made up my mind to take out the heatsink and play with the damn thing! I wanted to lap the sink. I read on several articles that Intel HeatSink is concave at the bottom...and that you should either lap it or buy a new aftermarket cooler, IF YOU ARE HAVING TEMP PROBLEMS! I raised my hand...
I had Grit-400, 600 and 1200 sandpapers at home, which I had bought to lap the stupid heatsink I had on my previous PC. I took out the heatsink, lapped it for about 40 minutes. It was slow going, because of the stupid "legs" of the Intel heatsink.
Anyway, here is a pic of the lapped sink. Shiny shiny (I should buy Grit 1500 and 2000 papers and sand it more 
)
Then I put a small pebble of heatsink paste (that is crap...but maybe 0.00001% better than not having them) on the CPU heastspreader and let the pressure of the heatsink spread it on the CPU heatspreader. I didn't apply a layer of paste on the CPU heatspreader as I used to do. Wanted to check if this is better.
And this is the result after lapping.
It doesn't even reach 70C now, and this is after running Prime95 for 1 hour.
THAT'S FCUKING 16C+ LESS THAN IT WAS BEFORE!
So, getting back to the thread topic,
YOU DUMB-ASS INTEL! YOU CAN MAKE A PROCESSOR! BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE A HEATSINK! SCREW YOU INTEL BITCHES!!!!
P.S.
I dropped the overclock because I didn't test for stability after upgrading to 4GB RAM. I will do it now
I blamed it "totally" on the mobo, saying that the readings are all wrong, and 97C is not possible because the CPU is anyway supposed to throttle at those temps (well, at any temp beyond T-Junction, which is 85C for my CPU) But it didn't throttle and the obvious thing to do was to blame it on the mobo.
Yesterday, I downloaded CoreTemp, which is now (amazingly) compatible with Vsita x64 (ok ok, Windows Server 2008 x64
) as they have signed their drivers (what?! when all these "other" software developers couldn't do it!), and checked the temps. 68C idle. Well...still it could be the damned mobo sensor. That's the easy way out of this situation. Blame it on the poor! But after some digging in, I found out that most people recommend CoreTemp as a reliable temperature monitoring tool, and I was sort of worried about this. 68C idle! Bloody hell!
Then I ran the blend test of Prime95 (x64, and the multithreaded version) and I could get the temps easily up to 85C and even CoreTemp went crazy and started showing weird values like 127C! (85C, then 127C...not a real value of course...but still, something is wrong) 85C is the temp my CPU should start to throttle at.
Good thing that gayannr was there to offer his sympathies to me on MSN
Anyway, I made up my mind to take out the heatsink and play with the damn thing! I wanted to lap the sink. I read on several articles that Intel HeatSink is concave at the bottom...and that you should either lap it or buy a new aftermarket cooler, IF YOU ARE HAVING TEMP PROBLEMS! I raised my hand...
I had Grit-400, 600 and 1200 sandpapers at home, which I had bought to lap the stupid heatsink I had on my previous PC. I took out the heatsink, lapped it for about 40 minutes. It was slow going, because of the stupid "legs" of the Intel heatsink.
Anyway, here is a pic of the lapped sink. Shiny shiny
(I should buy Grit 1500 and 2000 papers and sand it more )
Then I put a small pebble of heatsink paste (that is crap...but maybe 0.00001% better than not having them
) on the CPU heastspreader and let the pressure of the heatsink spread it on the CPU heatspreader. I didn't apply a layer of paste on the CPU heatspreader as I used to do. Wanted to check if this is better.And this is the result after lapping.
It doesn't even reach 70C now, and this is after running Prime95 for 1 hour.
THAT'S FCUKING 16C+ LESS THAN IT WAS BEFORE!
So, getting back to the thread topic,
YOU DUMB-ASS INTEL! YOU CAN MAKE A PROCESSOR! BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE A HEATSINK! SCREW YOU INTEL BITCHES!!!!
P.S.
I dropped the overclock because I didn't test for stability after upgrading to 4GB RAM. I will do it now
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