Thermal Product

[diggingforgold]

What type of thermal product should I use with my Athlon @ 1.4GHz? I've heard that thermal pads are the only way to go with Athlons, but I'm not too sure about that. I've heard of a certain brand of grease that is the best, but I can't remember it. If you can let me know your opinions with this CPU, that would be great. Danke!

[mw521]

Originally posted by diggingforgold
What type of thermal product should I use with my Athlon @ 1.4GHz? I've heard that thermal pads are the only way to go with Athlons, but I'm not too sure about that. I've heard of a certain brand of grease that is the best, but I can't remember it. If you can let me know your opinions with this CPU, that would be great. Danke! Arctic Silver II is the current best I believe. If I am wrong I stand corrected!:beer:

[azhari]

Originally posted by mw521
Arctic Silver II is the current best I believe. If I am wrong I stand corrected!:beer:

No need for correction, I agree completely. In fact, my opinion is to stay away from the pads. They gunk everything up and don't perform as well as ASII.

[Christoph]

I'd say Nanotherm ICE, but it's just about the same as AS2. Where on earth did you hear that thermal pads are any good? Lies, lies and more lies. They get wax into the microcrevices in your CPU core and HSF where a thermally conductive compound should go, and it's a pain to get the wax out once it's in there.
Go with AS2 or Nanotherm ICE, and don't forget to sacrifice some chickens!

[CrystalMethod]

Originally posted by IdeaMagnate
I'd say Nanotherm ICE, but it's just about the same as AS2. Where on earth did you hear that thermal pads are any good? Lies, lies and more lies. They get wax into the microcrevices in your CPU core and HSF where a thermally conductive compound should go, and it's a pain to get the wax out once it's in there.
Go with AS2 or Nanotherm ICE, and don't forget to sacrifice some chickens!
This is straight from our RMA dept. AMD does not warranty anything other than the thermal pads (thermal interface material)listed on it's site. The reason they do this is to elliminate all the RMA's they're handing out, due to the carelessness of assemblers, of OEM systems.

[The Overclocker]

amd also dont recmend any hjeatsinkgs above 250g i think, most of the copper ones are above that

[Christoph]

Originally posted by CrystalMethod

This is straight from our RMA dept. AMD does not warranty anything other than the thermal pads (thermal interface material)listed on it's site. The reason they do this is to elliminate all the RMA's they're handing out, due to the carelessness of assemblers, of OEM systems.

They still suck. Too bad that AMD has to compensate for slipshod assembly this way, but I think that most of us aren't too worried about RMAing our CPUs to the manufacturer anyway.

[AntmanMike]

Use Arctic Alumina compound.

[muddocktor]

Also, those thermal pads are a 1 shot deal in that if you have to remove the heatsink after you've installed the heatsink and run the computer, the excess pad material will kind of melt out. Once you remove the heatsink again, won't work effectively. It is also hard as hell to clean it off the proc; the best way I've found is with xylene or acetone.