Hi all,

I have a P4 3.0E GHz Prescott or Preston, I can't remember which name, CPU that is running hot (I know they do this by default, it's just how they work). Anyway, I have a heatsink/fan rated for a 3.2GHz processor and some generic heatsink compound in use. I'm wondering if changing out the heatsink compound could dramatically drop the temps I'm seeing. Right now when I boot up the computer and do nothing with it I see the temp running around 40 degrees celsius, and it often goes into the mid fifties when I'm doing anything intensive (I think I saw it go up to 60 when playing America's Army as well). I have some Arctic Silver 5 on the way, but am wondering if it will make that big a dent in the temps I'm seeing. If you don't think so I might also get a new heatsink/fan to go with the new compound and install them both at once to see if I can get the temp to drop about 10 degrees. Let me know what you think.