Your Guide to a cool Processor without any ThermalX Stuff and only Generic Components

[rizge]

U guys were absolutely right
i just got some generic thermal paste applied it and fired my machine and here it goes
32*C idle 37*C Load
instead of
37*C idle 41*C load

 

[wildfrogman]

well, glad this has a happy ending. To many people try this with athlons and the chips fry. Atleast your cpu didnt die and the generic thermal paste is almost free.....or is free with some heatsinks.

 

[Daemonfly]

Even a thin layer of Radio Shack therm paste is better than no paste at all.

 

[rizge]

Even a thin layer of Radio Shack therm paste is better than no paste at all.

IS their paste really THAT bad

 

[TheFrag]

i am using compusa silver thermal paste

 

[Emericana]

thefrag i heard that stuff sucks it is not artic silver so dont even think you are gettin anywhere near the performance you would if you cough up a measly $6 to get some AS3 or like $2 to get some artic alumina

 

[rizge]

added a third fan to the heatsink and changed the grease and wow
i get 28*C IDLE and 31*C Load

 

[Daemonfly]

Nice temp decrease. What did you change the grease to?


And Radio Shack's stuff is very basic, run of the mill white paste. It does the job, but there is deffinately better out there.

I have a can of industrial high quality white paste from where I used to work. I get better temps on all my CPUs with AS2 (don't have AS3).

 

[rizge]

@cAn O' Beans
Thx
THe new thermal grease has no Name ie no brand, but it is a well-made paste at least made in GERMANY
I am now thinking of adding another fan to have a total of 4 8 CM on top of my heatsink
the only problem being that my heatsink is not huge ie. standard sized so i am still trying to figure out how can i manage to put it on
but now i have no case fans as all my case fans are mounted on the Heatsink so i may also consider buying some 12 CM fans to be placed in the front and the back of my case

 

[Gnufsh]

case cooling is very important. You should definately work on that...

 

[Daemonfly]

Exactly. Without good case cooling, you are just blowing the same hot air back onto your heatsink.