Problem solved.
It appears I put too much thermal paste, and that resulted in much higher temperatures. Only a very light or even translucent layer of Arctic Silver 5 is required.
Remove the cmos battery and let evrything reset. Give it a few minutes unplugged also. Put the cmos battery back in , plug it up and run it. Upon bootup hit the DEL key on your keyboard and go into bios. Make sure you set "Optimized Default" in the bios save and exit.
Once it boots it should run it's normal speed. When you remove the cpu, the bios has to re-reconize the cpu and it's settings. Also you have to give the thermal paste time to set. It needs 48-72 hours berfore you notice any temp drop.
Sorry Nebulous you are wrong, my last idea is best - the layer of arctic silver 5 I put was too big and not smooth enough!
This time I took it all off, so everything shined. And took a razor blade, took out my cpu, with a razor in one hand my cpu in the other, I put down a very small bit of AS5 on my cpu core. then I used my razor to make a small layer of AS5 and make it as smooth as possible and as small as possible. Then I quickly put down my heatsink.
AND .....
TADAAAA - I went into BIOS and the bios boot temperature was 25 C! Then I clocked my cpu back to the normal speed 1667 MHZ (133 x 12.5). Booted windows, everything went fine. And now after 10 minutes of uptime my temperature is 36 C. I will wait 2 more hours to make sure at what level it stays. Then I will run Folding@Home and check again. I know I will need a couple of days until the thermal paste sets - so my temp can only get smaller now.
My lesson is: too much of anything is always bad, whether it be food, money, or thermal paste ...
Very nice! I noticed for some reason the AS5 takes time to apply and also a little more time under load temps to fully settle. Hopefully you temps will improve
Ye, best thermal conductivity is from metal to metal contact, in this case cpu core -> copper base. Anywhere where there is an empty space is supposed to be filled up by Arctis Silver 5, which is also called *burning in*. This is why all you need to do is just cover the processor with very little of it, make it smooth and thin.
At least, thats from my experience.
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Once it boots it should run it's normal speed. When you remove the cpu, the bios has to re-reconize the cpu and it's settings. Also you have to give the thermal paste time to set. It needs 48-72 hours berfore you notice any temp drop.
This time I took it all off, so everything shined. And took a razor blade, took out my cpu, with a razor in one hand my cpu in the other, I put down a very small bit of AS5 on my cpu core. then I used my razor to make a small layer of AS5 and make it as smooth as possible and as small as possible. Then I quickly put down my heatsink.
AND .....
TADAAAA - I went into BIOS and the bios boot temperature was 25 C! Then I clocked my cpu back to the normal speed 1667 MHZ (133 x 12.5). Booted windows, everything went fine. And now after 10 minutes of uptime my temperature is 36 C. I will wait 2 more hours to make sure at what level it stays. Then I will run Folding@Home and check again. I know I will need a couple of days until the thermal paste sets - so my temp can only get smaller now.
My lesson is: too much of anything is always bad, whether it be food, money, or thermal paste
At least, thats from my experience.