Thermal Paste

[Bogel]

Today is just not my day...I decided it was time to reseat my cpu cooler, so i clean off all my artic silver and when i went to re-apply it, i discovered to my dissmay, i have lost the little tube!!! now i have been looking for the past 30min looking for it, i just cant find it! Now my question is can I use no thermal paste? I have a zalman 9500 and i have some zalman thermal paste, but i really dont want to use it. On my moms HP right now btw...

 

[enVias]

You could use no thermal paste, but say goodfry (or goodbye) to your CPU.

 

[Bogel]

Oh ok, i will just use the zalman gunk then

 

[NickS]

Good idea. It shouldn't be TOO bad.

 

[Bogel]

I used it on the vf900 for a few days, worked fine...just dont like how small the tubes are you have to sqeeze so hard hurts my wittle fingers

 

[FarFarAway]

lol!

Some of the stuff bundled with coolers is ok. The thermalright paste is certainly fine

 

[Rastalovich]

I`ve found some of the thermal stuff that comes with some coolers sometimes seperates a bit in the plastic sachet.

Be sure to massage the sachet a bit to make sure it`s all nice`n together.

 

[Bogel]

Ironically my temps appear to be lower with the zalman gunk, i sense i put to much AS5 on...

 

[K404]

No thermal goo wont kill a CPU, but temps wont be as good.

I`m currently loving Arctic Ceramique....half the price of AS5, absolutely fine for sub-zero, and I cant tell the difference in temps above zero

 

[equk]

Some of the stuff that comes with coolers is actually quite good. Some of the pre-applied silver stuff is excellent.

Arctic Silver takes so many hours to cure, once cured it does norm go down in temp a few degrees, but the temp difference between different compounds is marginal ( altho it could be a big gain for a overclocker ).

http://www.dansdata.com/images/goop/nofibgraph2.gif

also: http://www.overclockers.com/articles660/

bit old, but still

 

[Bogel]

OMG OMG I am going to try toothpaste on my celeron!

 

[deathwish]

would like to se some reviews on gheto style thermal pastes

 

[mrapoc]

haha - cooking oil ownage

 

[ionicle]

i have NEVER used thermalpaste

sure my temps have been high, but i havent had to waste any more money

or got it allover my hands like other people

and all my pc's have been fine

 

[mrapoc]

Im guessing u used that pants default stuff?

 

[Ham]

Tbh id rather have the reassurance my chip is going to fry and be £5 out of pocket than kill a £100 cpu cos the IHS wasn't smooth or flat.

You can't exactly say TIM is expensive. One tube lasts for like 20-30 re-applications.

 

[Yeungster]

Tbh id rather have the reassurance my chip is going to fry and be £5 out of pocket than kill a £100 cpu cos the IHS wasn't smooth or flat.

You can't exactly say TIM is expensive. One tube lasts for like 20-30 re-applications.

Think you mean "isn't going to fry"

 

[Ham]

Think you mean "isn't going to fry"

 

[equk]

Im guessing u used that pants default stuff?

There's not much difference between thermal paste.

The dearer stuff sometimes gives you a few °C less in load temps after a few months.

The only 'pants' stuff I've seen is the pink bubblegum type stuff u used to get pre-applied on cheap HSF's

I think if you're an overclocker you will probably spend a little more to get AS5 or whatever, but if you're stuck and have to apply something there and then, you're not going to wait a few days for an order of AS5 to come when you have something perfectly adequate.

As most of the mid-high end coolers (& the stock intel ones) come with silver compound pre-applied there's not that much need to buy AS5 anymore unless you're going to use it for modding (eg replacing compound on NB/GPU) etc

Seems like there's almost a snobbery aspect with some overclockers

 

[rbanksy]

wheres a cheap place to get some?