PC Hardware question

[babysimon]

kingginger1, conflux, anyone?

I've got fed up with my PC sounding like an aircraft waiting to take off, so today I braved Tottenham Court Road and came back with a temperature controlled CPU fan. This comes with a tiny cpu sensor that you're meant to attach to the underneath of the CPU. This is, to put it politely, fiddly. I assume I'm supposed to use the thermal glue? The trouble is, while the glue is undoubtedly a great thermal conductor, it isn't very sticky, and I couldn't really get it to work. So I just splodged quite a bit of glue on the underneath of the cpu, stuck the sensor on top of the cpu ZIF socket, put the cpu on top, and hoped.

So: is this how everyone does it, or is my PC about to die of overheating? I haevn't yet heard the fan spin up from its minimum speed, but then neither has my PC done an emergency shutdown.


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