Thermal compound selection

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 26 Mar 2008, 19:32

I didn't even speak my mind, quick to jump on your pony eh?

I... Oh dear I don't know what to say

So what do you mean by this?There is only one possible anwser either you like it or you don't there ain't no reading between the lines cr@p here!!!!!

like it because if you have 1) a very hot NB/SB then it really can cool them as well as the CPU 2) and a massive side panel fan blowing onto it with 2X12cm fans, the CFM airflow is said to be in-sane.

Nah got a small WC kit for the NB.

Just a wee bit worried it won't fit in.If it doesn't I will just move the PSU to the drive bay.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 26 Mar 2008, 19:41

which miniwatercooler NB cooler is this? I really want to know.

Oh and please handle and fight with PM.

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 26 Mar 2008, 19:57

Frozenfireside wrote:which miniwatercooler NB cooler is this? I really want to know.

Oh and please handle and fight with PM.

Coolermaster Blue ice pro...But I just noticed it is not what I'm suppose to be getting this is the wrong cooler.Going to phone them tommorow and find out what is what... dammit!!!!

This is the one they are sending.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 26 Mar 2008, 21:15

Waaaaaaaaaaaait, what happened to watercooling your CPU for that 4GHz you were jakking on about?

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 27 Mar 2008, 06:24

WiK1d wrote:Waaaaaaaaaaaait, what happened to watercooling your CPU for that 4GHz you were jakking on about?

Well I got the GPU block, CPU block need a few things more before it will be complete....very hard to find the stuff online as well as being in the middle of the freestate...

IcePick88 · Post by **IcePick88** » 27 Mar 2008, 09:18

On the topic again, I used some thermal paste that I got from a friend. That stuff is seriously potent! It's not silver or grey, but white. It comes from the UK and the "operating temps" of the paste is -40 to 200 degrees celcius. it really works!

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 27 Mar 2008, 10:03

nappy rash cream? :-p

IcePick88 · Post by **IcePick88** » 27 Mar 2008, 10:11

It almost looks like it yes! 8O But very good.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 27 Mar 2008, 13:09

IcePick88 wrote:On the topic again, I used some thermal paste that I got from a friend. That stuff is seriously potent! It's not silver or grey, but white. It comes from the UK and the "operating temps" of the paste is -40 to 200 degrees celcius. it really works!

Arctic Silver Ceramique?

IcePick88 · Post by **IcePick88** » 27 Mar 2008, 15:16

I am not sure what the name was. But it was not arctic silver stuff. It came in a blue an white rounded bottle. Like the containers you get your panado's in. it really is magic stuff.

RobThePyro · Post by **RobThePyro** » 27 Mar 2008, 15:42

its just high quality silicone paste, any high quality stuff will seem to be great even if it isnt special

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 28 Mar 2008, 15:20

Um I think the stuff he got was this:
Arctic-cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound

Wouldn't surprise me if it was xtremely decent, AC make very good products.

pienkie · Post by **pienkie** » 03 Apr 2008, 10:47

Got my AS5 yeaterday, and as it was my first experience with aftermarket thermal compound I didn't know what to expect. The results seriously blew me away though:

Pre-AS5:

Full Load After 30 min - 58 degrees
Idle - 27 degrees

With AS5:

Full Load After 30 min - 45 degrees
Idle - 23 degrees

It's mad...

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 03 Apr 2008, 23:31

Well installed Collabatory metal pad to night with my Gemini II cooler damn I'm dissapointed but it migt be due to the damn cooler moving around so much when trying to install it...Ah well will let it stay awhile longer on 3.7GHZ and 1.55 vcore with no fans and see what happens however current temps are at 74 idle and 82 load running SuperPI 32mb just to keep it around the 80 mark

PsyCLown · Post by **PsyCLown** » 03 Apr 2008, 23:42

pienkie wrote:Got my AS5 yeaterday, and as it was my first experience with aftermarket thermal compound I didn't know what to expect. The results seriously blew me away though:

Pre-AS5:

Full Load After 30 min - 58 degrees
Idle - 27 degrees

With AS5:

Full Load After 30 min - 45 degrees
Idle - 23 degrees

It's mad...

I think I shall soon have some nice experiances with aftermarket cooling!!!

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 04 Apr 2008, 17:28

I ordered the Cool laboratory liquid pro on Thurs but that was stupid because now I won't get it till Monday. Oh well-I do have work to do this weekend so I cannot spend my time faffing with new thermal grease.

Edit:oh 'four letter word'! They won't have stock for the next 4 weeks. Another four letter word!

pienkie · Post by **pienkie** » 04 Apr 2008, 18:18

wizardofid wrote:Well installed Collabatory metal pad to night with my Gemini II cooler damn I'm dissapointed but it migt be due to the damn cooler moving around so much when trying to install it...Ah well will let it stay awhile longer on 3.7GHZ and 1.55 vcore with no fans and see what happens however current temps are at 74 idle and 82 load running SuperPI 32mb just to keep it around the 80 mark

Soz to be a noob, but is that even safe

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 04 Apr 2008, 19:02

Its gotta be done

And yea, those chips are rated to like 100c or something.

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 04 Apr 2008, 19:11

pienkie wrote:
wizardofid wrote:Well installed Collabatory metal pad to night with my Gemini II cooler damn I'm dissapointed but it migt be due to the damn cooler moving around so much when trying to install it...Ah well will let it stay awhile longer on 3.7GHZ and 1.55 vcore with no fans and see what happens however current temps are at 74 idle and 82 load running SuperPI 32mb just to keep it around the 80 mark
Soz to be a noob, but is that even safe

Short periods, longer periods might cause problems like shorten CPU life and rare cases it might blow....However if a cpu has a proper burn-in 24 hours at full load and it doesn't fail it's unlikely that it will fail for short periods of time at high temps....

I ordered the Cool laboratory liquid pro on Thurs but that was stupid because now I won't get it till Monday. Oh well-I do have work to do this weekend so I cannot spend my time faffing with new thermal grease.

Dude it will be worth the wait.

I replaced the metal pad with another one because the previous one had problems with 5degrees higher temps on core 0 and 3.

Overall it worked great after some more stress testing.

With a healthly 1.5 vcore and a 3.7 oc got a 3dmark01 score of 57800.It still refuses to complete 05 and 06 at those speeds.

Like I said with the vcore on 1.5 it just hit the thermal design limit at 61 at load and 52 at idle.Previous temps(stock thermal grease) requires a desktop fan and it was at 68 idle and around 78 at load which is a great improvement.

So mabye I was too hasty......

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 04 Apr 2008, 19:20

Yeah I know it's worth its salt but you know we 'havetohaveitnow!'.
The pads pissed me off because they took so much effort to melt and often move in the process so I'm getting the liquid

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 04 Apr 2008, 19:29

Frozenfireside wrote:Yeah I know it's worth its salt but you know we 'havetohaveitnow!'.
The pads pissed me off because they took so much effort to melt and often move in the process so I'm getting the liquid

Running Right mark 4 SSE2 threads for the last half an hour at full load at 3.7 no problem so far.What I found that works is to stress it and shut down the PC let it cool complete and stress it again.It seemed to work well with the previous pad was only the two core temps I didn't like.Mostly likely because the pad wasn't completely flat.

My coolmaster NB fan is running at 38 degrees now took one of the GPU pads and cut it a bit smaller.....

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 06 Apr 2008, 12:47

Here is quite an intesive and up to date review on some TIM's

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 06 Apr 2008, 14:16

WiK1d wrote:Here is quite an intesive and up to date review on some TIM's

thanks dude

Firestrm_ZA · Post by **Firestrm_ZA** » 10 Apr 2008, 15:57

Whats ppl's views on arctic ceramique?

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 10 Apr 2008, 16:13

Ceramique is quite good. I am actually running it now. Partially as it's much cheaper than AS5 and performs quite the same. But AC is FANTASTIC for sub zero applications.