Need to install thermal paste?

[Wile E]

quoted the wrong person?

Nope, just backing you up with another example.


@Trog - From what I understand, AC coolers come with MX1 or MX2 pre-applied. I personally would just leave it on there until it has to be changed.

 

[Mussels]

AC coolers come with MX1. good paste, better than most.

MX2 is better, but you'd want some arcticlean to clean it off completely.

 

[accordpower99]

I have this cpu cooler COOLER MASTER Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler, how much of a difference does the stock paste have over other pastes, any actualy temp differences?

 

[Mussels]

since cooler master arent even one of the brand names for thermal paste, i'd suggest buying some AC MX-2.

Yes there are actual temp differences, go read some reviews (prefereably ones done here on TPU)

 

[trog100]

and at the end of all this u are all totally at the mercy of intels "not flat" heat spreader tops and how the actuall heat speader makes contact with the top of the chips..

how well the heat moves from chip to heater spreader then to cooler base is in the hands of intel.. we are just fidding..

when we used to sit the cooler straight on top of the chip all this meant something.. now its mostly mumbo jumbo for the sake of mumbo jumbo..

the whole point of heat spreaders is to make fitting the coolers less critical and more secure.. cooling wise the critical part is what intel do underneath the big secure spreader we get to sit our cooler on.. i wonder what magic gloop they use..

trog

 

[Mussels]

they use solder mostly. Go check some threads about people who pop the heatspreaders off.

Also you can lap your CPU if you dont like the lack of flatness.i did.

 

[trog100]

solder.. how the hell can u solder a piece of silicon chippery to a metal plate..

i am talking about the contact surfaces between chip tops and plate not how the plate is attached to the package..

also a nicely lapped (flat with no machine marks) cpu top and cooler base really would be better off with no gloop of any kind.. gloop isnt magic.. just the lesser of two evils.. direct surface to surface contact is best.. gloop between those two surfaces is simply better than air.. the lesser of two evils at best..

i get the idea some folks think gloop helps heat transfer in some way.. it dosnt.. its just better than air.. air is bad.. gloop aint quite so bad.. some gloop aint quite so bad as other gloop is about the best can be said for it..

direct surface to surface contact is best..

trog

 

[philbrown23]

I haven't even read any of the posts on this thread and I can tell you this, you always need to apply thermal paste unless you want your cpu to overheat!

 

[Wile E]

solder.. how the hell can u solder a piece of silicon chippery to a metal plate..

Extreme heat. lol. If you don't believe it, look no further than the 3rd link in my sig.

 

[candle_86]

actully my prefered method of applying AS5 is put a lil on your core, then get a plastic bag, stick your finger in it, then use your finger wrapped in plastic to apply and even it out, works great.

 

[Mussels]

actully my prefered method of applying AS5 is put a lil on your core, then get a plastic bag, stick your finger in it, then use your finger wrapped in plastic to apply and even it out, works great.

Also a good method, the downside beings its wasteful - grease sticks to the bag.