Araris' Core i7 (Nehalem) Topic

[Clay Pigeon]

You should never need to remove your heatsink to reapply arctic silver. That crap will last forever.

[Araris]

The only case in which you should re-apply your thermal compound is if you're removing it to apply MX-2. MX-2 is the better stuff that's come out after AS5 and ACeramique.

Also, 65C @ 4.1Ghz load on a i7 is absolutely amazing, the stock heatsink runs 2.93Ghz 57C idle, so for me to get 65C is amazing, not to mention they can run up to 100C according to Intel documentation. The thing currently sits at 30C on idle, I have to update my sig.

[Rigges]

[quote="Clay Pigeon";p="142088"]You should never need to remove your heat sink to reapply arctic silver. That crap will last forever.[/quote]

Umm I am sorry to bust your bubble but my arctic silver 5 was hard and crusty on the CPU my cleaning it off and redoing it fixed the thermal problem I had and I have read that it is not uncommon to have to remove heat sinks and clean off old thermal paste and reseat them with new thermal paste

[Araris]

Artic Silver becomes hard and crusty by default, while re-applying it can fix some issues you're better off buying a new heatsink or applying MX-2 if your temperatures are becoming absurd. Rigges probably had an issue that required reapplying it, but Clay is correct when he says that you really don't need to be removing your heatsink to re-apply the stuff.

[Rigges]

MX-2 sounds Like a plan I'll wait and see the temps are great right now so I will wait and see.

[Araris]

I just switched to MX-2, I had been using AS5 for about 1 and a half years before that, I went to MX-2 because it's non-conductive, meaning that unlike Artic Silver 5 if it get on other components of your comp it won't fry components.

Here's an MX-2 v AS5 CPU bench


Here's an MX-2 v AS5 GPU bench


Overall it's about 1-2C lower so unless you're out of AS5 there really isn't a reason to rush out and buy some. I only got the stuff for my GPUs, I'm going from Stock ---> MX-2 which should be really nice, looking at about a 6-7C drop.

[Rigges]

Yes I went and read that article

Here is another graph that I found on it at the arctic cooling



I have had to remove 2 different heat sinks and use my heat sink thermal paste so may be I will get some the next time I need to see my old heat sink was a self contained water cooler and its Pump died I bought this Butter fly to replace it and possibly the top of the cpu has micro warps in it

OH I found this too it looks like very good instructions for thermal compound but mainly MX-2


Note Picture edited for English removed German

[Araris]

I'd also like to point out to those reading this topic that if your motherboard is running way to hot (not the cpu) or you're having random shut offs and your motherboard heatsinks (not the CPU one) are feeling extremely hot, then I recommend you unscrew (or demount, however your heatsink is applied) it, clean off the current goop on it and apply some MX-2 or whatever thermal compound you use.

The best stuff on the market to remove goop is ArticClean,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835100010

Be cautious when removing your Northbridge and Southbridge heatsinks when you do it (if you do it). On the X58 boards you only have one chipset since the northbridge was moved inside the CPU, so if you're running one of those you only have one heatsink you'd need to remove.