kinkinkijkin Wrote:There wasn't a part about the thermal compound.
Thermal solution is another term for thermal compound.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:The heatsinks on my motherboard, and the older models it's based off of, are such utter garbage that it can't handle 78w to the CPU with a case temp of 17 degrees celsius without heating up as if I'd an overclocked 8350 in there.
The motherboard is a collection of many components on a circuit board. Some of which can have heatsinks. You're either referring to chipset heatsinks, mosfet heatsinks, or VRM heatsinks. I can't tell without more information. And until I can figure that out I have no idea what you're talking about.
Assuming this is the chipset heatsinks that you're talking about (most likely) we must then determine:
1. How you know it's the cheap thermal compound that's causing the issue. Or how you know what thermal compound is being used.
2. What temperature it's reaching.
3. What temperature is considered safe and whether your chipset temperatures are actually unsafe. Chipsets are generally designed to get pretty hot without issue.
And of course none of that would be applicable to a haswell board because they don't even have a proper chipset (only a PCH). As do a number of modern Intel and AMD platforms.
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