Is Thermal Paste Nesseccary?!?!?!?!

[PC eye]

For a guy who got a 3500+ to run at 3.7GHz you're ability to miss horribly crucial pieces of information is quite astonishing
Maybe a script-edit is needed?

I never said I got one to run that fast. I was making an illustration about how high the cpu temp would be if the cpu(in figurative terms only) reached 3.7ghz when 2.3ghz saw 40C idle from the stock 34-35C idle temp.

 

[Praetor]

I never said I got one to run that fast. I was making an illustration about how high the cpu temp would be if the cpu(in figurative terms only) reached 3.7ghz when 2.3ghz saw 40C idle from the stock 34-35C idle temp.

Oh of course not.... how wrong of me to misinterpt:

• That you said the chip would reach 3.7Ghz -- when anyone who knows anything about OCing on a K8 knows full well that after a few hundred MHz, things arent so concrete and as such knowing that a chip would reach a certain clock ... requires that such a clock be attempted (and to be meaningful, it must have been maintained in a stable manner)
• And that such a overclock at a (figurative) clock speed would have a (non figurative) hot cpu...

Btw I particularly like the 5ºC core-temp for 100MHz

And have such a thorough understanding of overclocking (which is, by the way, almost 70% overclock -- figuratively), you failed to misparse, i mean, misinterpret vcore. It's almost like that 3.7GHz was a boast taken too far...

And on processors in general, with this vast knowledge of processors (cuz well, noobs dont do 70% overclocks just like that), you failed to note that there was a difference between the A64-3500 and A64-3700 other than the model numbers and the core name ... of course, with figurative chips, imaginary overclocks, misparsed vCores, how can I blame you!

 

[Archangel]

dan.. those pic's for all situations are awesome
maybe not very subtile.. but then, that's never been one of my strong points anyway

 

[SirKenin]

Yes but for those scenarios to actually happen you need a lot of stupidity.

Yes, yes and YES!!!! Amen!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. Like the one client I had that couldn't have been more than 17 years old. He bought an Athlon XP from me. A couple of days later he brought it back. The top of the CPU was burnt. The bottom of the HSF was blackened.. And you could SEE THE BLUE TAPE!!! The idiot had forgotten to take the tape off the HSF thermal paste before installation and wanted me to do an RMA!! I told him to send it back to AMD. ACK!!!!

So yeah. Stupidity. Of course if the HSF isn't applied properly it will do the same thing, like having one clip broken in the example of the OP. You have to be careful with CPUs people.