WhiteZero
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Thought I'd share this with you guys.
I've had the same old, generic white thermal paste on my CPU for the past 2+ years. It's been overclocked this whole from from 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz. And most of this time the CPU has toped out between 64C and 66C which is pretty high for it, infact only a few degres C below the suggested maximum operating temperature.
So, I decided to replace this old crap with the good stuff, Arctic Silver 5. After sucessfully not breaking anything getting my huge ass heatsink on and off, I boot my comp back up, re-overclock it to it's 3.0 or so... and now it's maxing out at about just under 50C.
Wwwwwwwwooow, thats some amazing goo. And supposidly the stuff works better after about 100 hours operating time, since the compound dose... something, I dont remember. lol
Now I'm thining of OCing it even higher, like around 3.2 or 3.3.
So anyway, the moral of this story is, if you've had the same old thermal paste on you CPU for more than a year or two, clean it off real good and put some high quality stuff on there.
:thumbs:
I've had the same old, generic white thermal paste on my CPU for the past 2+ years. It's been overclocked this whole from from 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz. And most of this time the CPU has toped out between 64C and 66C which is pretty high for it, infact only a few degres C below the suggested maximum operating temperature.
So, I decided to replace this old crap with the good stuff, Arctic Silver 5. After sucessfully not breaking anything getting my huge ass heatsink on and off, I boot my comp back up, re-overclock it to it's 3.0 or so... and now it's maxing out at about just under 50C.
Wwwwwwwwooow, thats some amazing goo. And supposidly the stuff works better after about 100 hours operating time, since the compound dose... something, I dont remember. lol
Now I'm thining of OCing it even higher, like around 3.2 or 3.3.
So anyway, the moral of this story is, if you've had the same old thermal paste on you CPU for more than a year or two, clean it off real good and put some high quality stuff on there.
:thumbs:
