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Are you using good thermal paste? some AS for example?

i actually bought some AS5 a few years back but used it all, What i have now is cheap $3 ceramic-based thermal paste this is what i got:

Ceramique 2
Tri-Linear Ceramic
Thermal Compound
by
Arctic Silver
2.7 grams in size.
 
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well it took a bit of RAM-tussle but it now sees 2GB again
 

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yeah, it made me nervous because as I was installing it the side facing the ATA100 bus seems to have too much play. Also seeing a Dual 1.25 in person actually made it look like it was a entirely different CPU (a bit heavier too). I also 1st installed it (as a test for the reason i mentioned) with no thermal paste and just 2 screws in the heatsink. Once I found it worked it shut it down and applies some of my ceramic thermal paste.

To everyone who knows the answer:

Is 113F an ok tempature for a Dual 1.25?

Why... why did you do that. As a COMPUTER TECH you SHOULD know that using a CPU without a properly pressed heatsink and thermal paste can permanently damage the CPU due to insane temperatures. You risked that badly.
That said, from your screenshot above your CPU runs at 133F (55°C), not 113F. 113F is fine, same as mine, but 133F at idle is definitely high, considering the upper temperature limit for that CPU is 144F (62°C). Which heatsink do you have? The one with less, thicker foils or the one with more foils but thinner?

BTW, I can't watch HD videos with my X800XT and same MDD as yours, which videos in which app can you play in HD?
 
Why... why did you do that. As a COMPUTER TECH you SHOULD know that using a CPU without a properly pressed heatsink and thermal paste can permanently damage the CPU due to insane temperatures. You risked that badly.
That said, from your screenshot above your CPU runs at 133F (55°C), not 113F. 113F is fine, same as mine, but 133F at idle is definitely high, considering the upper temperature limit for that CPU is 144F (62°C). Which heatsink do you have? The one with less, thicker foils or the one with more foils but thinner?

BTW, I can't watch HD videos with my X800XT and same MDD as yours, which videos in which app can you play in HD?

That's 55F not 55C and that's WeatherBug not Tempature Monitor.

The computer was running without Thermal Paste for like 15 seconds just until I had video on the screen the heatsink is the thin finned one that from what I understand came with the DP 1.25GHz CPUs
 
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