Barron Gillon wrote:
> Thankyou for your input everyone.  The problem seems to have been
> resolved. There was a TON of dust in the heatsink, so I just cleaned
> that out, put on a resh layer of thermal paste (Arctic Silver III,
> pricy stuff), and things seem to be back under control.  It idles
> around 122, 123 F (50-51 C), and during a 7 minute test render it got
> up to 55...  Too hot for a purist, but then it has always run a
> little hot.

Thats not to bad, My other halfs PC runs the CPU fan depending upon CPU
temp. It sits around 45 degrees C no matter what its doing. I would feed it
something big and let it cook overnight, if for no other reason than to bed
the thermal paste in.

> like to extend my condolances to ABX, and admiration for putting up
> with what must be astronomical render times on that P233!

As do we all :P

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Rick

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