Best Thermal Paste?

[zub]

as title suggests, am gonna recieve an fx-55 from equlibrium soon, so thaught i may aswell buy some good thermal paste. any suggestions?

i already have some ceramique paste left over that came with my xp-120 but thaught may aswell get the best.

 

[PHILIP1193]

probs artic silver 5 mate is the best mate

Phil

 

[zub]

thaught so...

 

[equilibrium]

I agree with Phillip on that one Tis the one i use and its great

DAve

 

[K404]

AS5 for above ambient and arctic ceramique for below.

 

[welshtom]

arctic ceramique for the win

 

[ExstaZ]

This ain´t bad either: http://www.coollaboratory.com/en/

 

[boardy]

Please do not use any aluminium coolers!

Doesn't that count out ANY processor cos aren't the IHS's on CPU's alu?

 

[stocky]

Nah, nickel plated copper

 

[ExstaZ]

If do tuch aluminum thius hapends: http://www.frostytech.com/permalink.cfm?NewsID=46586

Heres a test BTW:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72814

 

[zub]

i have a alu cooler xp-120, you say its no good???

 

[boardy]

Read the page in the link, it's written in bold!!

 

[zub]

ohhh...but i guess artic silver 5 will be ok

hey you think removing the IHS of the fx-55 would help much??

 

[maverik-sg1]

DO NOT REMOVE THE IHS OFF AN FX55.

Especially on air, you're bound to crush the core and it hardly makes any difference so is not worth the risk.

REFERENCE HSC:

Air/Water cooled use AS5 (It's the best and that's that)

Phase/Pelt cooled use AS Ceramique (It's the best and that's that)

Any questions?

 

[boardy]

Hmm I think that's pretty clear

 

[zub]

woooo! thanks for the heads up. but i'm pretty sure people have still done it right? i swear i've seen it somewhere.

 

[unreal]

DO NOT REMOVE THE IHS OFF AN FX55.

Especially on air, you're bound to crush the core and it hardly makes any difference so is not worth the risk.

REFERENCE HSC:

Air/Water cooled use AS5 (It's the best and that's that)

Phase/Pelt cooled use AS Ceramique (It's the best and that's that)

Any questions?

I'd use ceramique on air/water - thats because I think its far easier to get a perfect application of Ceramique than AS5, plus...

GPUs, ceramique too would you not say?

22g rocks

 

[maverik-sg1]

No I would say AS5 every time for any non-Phase application - application is simple - on bead the size of a grain of rice in the middle of the heat spreader on the CPU/GPU/RAM (not the cooling block) is enough, the pressure of the block and CPU coming together si enough to give you the spread you require (non of this thin layer using credit card nonsense) - works everytime.

People who have removed the IHS have not found any benefit, unless of course they are on phase with a dual core CPU as sometimes the IHS does make good contact with both cores.

Mav

 

[zub]

i agree with Maverik, on the "size of a grain" thing. i usually make a small star shaped thingy in the middle of the processor and then just dump on the heat sink, the pressure spreads the whole thing out and most of the time you can see the paste squeeze out slightly off the edges, which is always a good site for me

 

[unreal]

Well to each and his own, I dont know about you but I also find ceramique easier to clean up and remove...

Plus, I actually got lower temps with ceramique than AS5 so thats why I stuck with it..

Edit: Just wanted to add, I know that AS5 is better, probably about 1'c lower temps, but my 22g ceramique tube was like £7