Hi
Could anybody give me some advise i have recenlty upgraded my processor from a intel celeron to a intel pentium 4 640 retail boxed with intel heatsink fan. I have a Packard Bell imedia 1307, ever since doing this i am experiencing high tempartures, i am using PC Wizard 2007 to monitor my system and when idling with 0-4% cpu usage it hovers around 54-57c, i assume this is quiet high as most peoples are around 40-47c. When i first installed it i got a thermal temparture error and my pc kept shutting down. I was advised that maybe i did not put the heatsink on properly and maybe the pins werent in right so i pushed really hard on the pins and one of the pins clicked into place. This got rid of the thermal temparture error message and my pc boots up fine now. Only problem is now the high tempartures whilst idling. After 2 weeks at runnning at these tempartures i was advised to apply some thermal compound so i used arcticsilver5 but still my tempartures are still high, and i can assure you i cleaned the processor and heatsink fan and the pins are pushed in propely on the heatsink fan. Its a 2 year old pc that cost £350 so i certainly not going to through money at it i.e water cooling and all that business. Any help would be very much appreciated. I keep getting people saying its my case ventilation but may i point out i have done exactly the same has an other person with exactly the same Packard Bell pc and cpu upgrade and his idles at 45-49c.
Thanks, steveveg