CPU Failure?

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nateg1190

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I recently just purchased the arctic silver 5 compound, Then I take off my heat sink and apply the compound to the heatspreader. I applyed a straight line in the middle like the manual told me to. Then when i turn my computer on everything is fine except one problem. Before i did any of this i had my cpu oc'ed to 2.6ghz, now i can't even keep it stable at 2.18. I oced my cpu to 2.18ghz (311mhz), it loads up fine and everything , when i play FEAR or even download anything my pc crashes and everything locks up. So i have to put my cpu back to stock which is 1.86ghz (266mhz). So now i completely regret messing with anything. Now can anyone please help me out here and tell me what may be the problem.


Thank You!
 
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nateg1190 said:
I recently just purchased the arctic silver 5 compound, Then I take off my heat sink and apply the compound to the heatspreader. I applyed a straight line in the middle like the manual told me to. Then when i turn my computer on everything is fine except one problem. Before i did any of this i had my cpu oc'ed to 2.6ghz, now i can't even keep it stable at 2.18. I oced my cpu to 2.18ghz (311mhz), it loads up fine and everything , when i play FEAR or even download anything my pc crashes and everything locks up. So i have to put my cpu back to stock which is 1.86ghz (266mhz). So now i completely regret messing with anything. Now can anyone please help me out here and tell me what may be the problem.


Thank You!
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As a general rule i think it takes about 250(?) hours of the cpu running warm for the compound to start to do its job. Basically a break in period. Just leave your pc running a cpu stress test for 24-48 hours and try then.
 
Well, id run Folding @ Home, depending on whether your cpu is dual core or not you might need to run 2 instances of them at once. Run that program on each core (if its dual core, theres a special way to do it) for 24-48 hours and that should break in the new compound.
 
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