Mike Raiford wrote:

> 
> I did this last night, in fact, while running a CPU intensive program, 

> throttling. The fan is running fine, though the heatsink was clogged 
> with dust, cleaned that out, No change in temp. I'm wondering if I need 
> new heatsink goop at this point
> 

So, I bought a new heatsink from the local computer shop. It took the 
guy 15 minutes of rummaging around in the back to find one to fit my 
ancient system. Installed it.



CRAP.

I was poking around my PC last night, and noticed the air from the case 
was pretty hot. (Seriously, I could use this thing in the winter to keep 


Wonder what would change if I ran the case open. I lose the fan in the 
case side, but maybe it'll give me adequate ventilation.

If I can just keep this thing from driving me bonkers (or possibly 
failing due to thermal stress) until I build the new one (BTW, I think 
I'm going to start with 4GB of DDR3 instead of 2GB... Might as 
well....Memory is cheap)

-- 
~Mike

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