Its piss easy to spread. There are youtube clips suggesting using a cotton bud and a great way to do it actually. However I found it far better to use a credit card. you get a perfect even covering. Not to mention the layer you spread is supposed to be thin. People often think its not enough and use too much.
Thermal paste replacement.
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Its piss easy to spread. There are youtube clips suggesting using a cotton bud and a great way to do it actually. However I found it far better to use a credit card. you get a perfect even covering. Not to mention the layer you spread is supposed to be thin. People often think its not enough and use too much.
Thelosouvlakia
Classy-Fried-Chicken
Is there an incompatibility isue with the material of the heat-plate from the cooler?
Should be zero issue at all provided you do not use it with an aluminium cooler. You can delid and use it on the die directly like I do, or use it on the die and place the IHS back ontop of the die. Or actually use it between the die and IHS, and also between the IHS and waterblock/air cooler.
Delidding gives best results but not everyone thinks its worth it. Personally I lowered my temps and now I get on idle 23C and at load 54 when overclocked to 4.6ghz
SuB
The Webmaster
It's really not, I've been applying compound to chips and cores for so long it doesn't bother me, I've never shorted anything. It's literally a case of not being stupid and it's fine. The cooling performance is just so good. In my opinion if you don't have a steady enough hand or nonce enough to apply a conductive paste to a flat surface, without getting it on something you shouldn't... you shouldn't be in there in the first place.
This, ALL this, so many people pile paste on like butter but you only need it to be microns thick, people forget that it's literally just there to fill the microscopic gaps between material A and material B.
Only Aluminium based coolers, because gallium eats it. Other than that, no issues
Thelosouvlakia
Classy-Fried-Chicken
Right! When I'm afraid that I might break something when doing some stuff my hands get shaky, really shaky
So it will work with the raijintek triton.. It's nickel plated copper plate
Ok so if you delid, you will need to avoid getting it on the other chips near the die, which is an easy thing if you spread the CLU thin like you should, it wouldn't spread to them. When I say thin i mean Ridiculously thin, so much so that you wonder if its even on there. And a shaky hand wont matter. it comes inside a hyperdermic needle and you put a tiny amount on the centre and then get a cotton bud to start spreading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhbqiFh9Us
And yes, nickel plated copper is fine. As said, just dont use with aluminium, its that simple.
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Thelosouvlakia
Classy-Fried-Chicken
I don't think that an FX cpu is delid-able but thanks for the tips anyway ^_^
Easy job for you then if you follow the YT clip above. You can see how simple it is
barnsley
born in a.....
Its soldered to the die I believe.
Thelosouvlakia
Classy-Fried-Chicken
So from the coolaboratory stuff
Ok the copper one is the copper one
But then which of the two? The liquid pro or the liquid ultra?
Ok the copper one is the copper one
But then which of the two? The liquid pro or the liquid ultra?
So from the coolaboratory stuff
Ok the copper one is the copper one
But then which of the two? The liquid pro or the liquid ultra?
both are good. Ultra edges a little better on performance.
imfaceroll
New member
Came across this, saw this on another forum
https://edstechreport.wordpress.com...break-in-the-arctic-silver-5-thermal-paste-2/
https://edstechreport.wordpress.com...break-in-the-arctic-silver-5-thermal-paste-2/
I'll be using Grizzly for my new x99 build next week, so I'll let you know how I get on.
It's meant to spread easily and is popular with hardcore overclockers
Someone with the same bundle as mine tried using the pre applied paste on the asetek aoi 240 cooler, then tried the Grizzly and his temps dropped by 10 degrees
It's meant to spread easily and is popular with hardcore overclockers
Someone with the same bundle as mine tried using the pre applied paste on the asetek aoi 240 cooler, then tried the Grizzly and his temps dropped by 10 degrees
RandomBadger
New member
I've been using Thermal Kryo on my EK custom loop and my 4790k @100% averages 45-50c and the same when I'm gaming with gpu sitting at about 35-45°c
RandomBadger
New member
Yeah that's a good tip I wish I knew about lol
Its easy to apply using the applicator but it went patchy a few times for me. But might resit it all and re-apply it if I get bored enough
