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- May 20, 2004
This may or may not belong here - but I had to report:
I just reseated my CPU with Arctic Silver 5. I put on a medium layer, so it wouldn't squish out the sides (highly conductive) and then fired it all back up.
My temps dropped 7 degrees at idle! My load temps still aren't great (no HSF gives great load temps from my experience, unless you're dealing with 90dB ones...lol). This is NOT on a WC'd machine. that comes next. But I just thought I'd share: for all of you using the thermal grease provided with processors....spend the money and get some AS5, it's excellent.
I just reseated my CPU with Arctic Silver 5. I put on a medium layer, so it wouldn't squish out the sides (highly conductive) and then fired it all back up.
My temps dropped 7 degrees at idle! My load temps still aren't great (no HSF gives great load temps from my experience, unless you're dealing with 90dB ones...lol). This is NOT on a WC'd machine. that comes next. But I just thought I'd share: for all of you using the thermal grease provided with processors....spend the money and get some AS5, it's excellent.