artic silver worth it???

[sifu quoc]

my p3 700 currently is at 945, full load avgs about 32 with radioshack paste with a pep and delta....

you think artic silver can drop these temps????

 

[William]

will probably drop them, but those are damn fine temps. I would be afraid to touch anything.

 

[Pitspawn]

If you do a good job of cleaning up both your core and your hs then AS2 would do wonders. Otherwise, you prolly shouldn't bother.

I think AS is amazing. My old K6-2 450 has hit new record speeds with my Coolermaster SocketA cooler w/ ASone. ATM i'm running at 495Mhz, I can EASILY hit 517Mhz, but my psu is low rated and I get random resets due to power fluctuations.

AS is very competitively priced, especially considering it yields thermal transfer rates 10x higher than generic paste. I remember some statistics that radio shack paste is something like 1.05K transfer while AS2 is 5.12K transfer.

 

[RUF_CTR2]

Yes, Artic Silver II works very well. My Athlon 700 overclocked to 900 is running at 37.5 C right now under full load with Artic Silver and a Global Win fan. Not sure what the fan is, but it is not a top of the line cooling fan. Pretty good though, it might be a FOP-32. I also have a slot cooler and a standard 80 mm chasis fan.

 

[Hoot]

There is no finer thermal compound made. Realistically, it may get you a few degrees improvement on a PEP after you clean it good.

Hoot

 

[Fro]

i lost about 3 degrees with it. so yea, i think it's worth it

 

[puppet]

If you do decide to try it......I'd be interested in how much of a drop from 32c (full load) you'd get on a Intel cpu. My money is on ZERO.

 

[sifu quoc]

yea... i think my temps are about close to max now... and i am broke, and wanna buy a wrx... so my computer should be ok as it is.....

 

[cool]

I replaced the thermal compound on my Geforce 2 GTS (ASUS V770Delux) whit artic silver II and the temps dropped whit 3 Celsius.

 

[Me]

RUF_CTR2 (Jun 06, 2001 11:53 p.m.):
Yes, Artic Silver II works very well. My Athlon 700 overclocked to 900 is running at 37.5 C right now under full load with Artic Silver and a Global Win fan. Not sure what the fan is, but it is not a top of the line cooling fan. Pretty good though, it might be a FOP-32. I also have a slot cooler and a standard 80 mm chasis fan.

 

[GERRY136]

installed ac2 on core and new hsf..
dropped 4to 6c.