Hello,
I was experinmenting to lower down Z400 chipset temperature. I don't know why, but chipset is becoming very warm only just by entering BIOS and there - temperatures. So I used it for comparisions. Chipset temperature (as stated in previous posts) is displayed under 'memory'. In my case it was easily going to 70 Celsius degrees, maybe I worried unnecessairly, but I wanted just to play a bit.
Here are my conclusions:
- once I touched it, I did a little worse. I don't know why it happened, but it happened. Computer is 6 years old, and I was expecting thermal paste would be dry & not having good thermal conduction anymore. When I removed heatsink, original thermal paste still was there, looking not bad, and it was not completely dry as I thought it might be
- so any other kind or amount of themal paste didn't let me obtain 'original' results.
- I also did use kind of thermal-conducting plaster, see photo bellow, it was giving nice feeling it adheres well to chpset, but it was the only positive. Temperature was above 70 Celsius degrees.
- Anyway, my plan was to attach even small fan, to dissipate heat better. And it helpded. I even played with two different ones (bigger was better, for around 4 degrees)
- now highest temperature I see is 62 degrees, whole stuff is solid as a rock.
