I really love Arctic Silver

[mangoluvr]

My original temperature for my athlon xp 2800 was 140's Farenheit and after applying Arctic Silver 5, I monitored the temperature and it stayed at the low 100's max was 102 . I think it also helped with performance because 3dmark2003 was always around 5350ish and I just ran another test right after the arctic silver and it ran up to 5390. Its not much but hey its cool to see it jump a few points. The only tough part was getting the stupid heatsink off and putting it back on (Its the one where you have to use a flat head screwdriver and if you are not careful enough, u might just slip and damage your motherboard. I had a 3 close calls shoving the screwdriver onto the motherboard) but other than that, I'm a happy camper.

 

[Gravity]

There may have been another issue, I'm thinking that AS5 didn't give you 40 degrees. Perhaps your HS was not applied correctly or there was little or no pad/paste on the previous app. Anyhow, glad you are running cool now.

 

[jhurst]

Originally posted by: mangoluvr
My original temperature for my athlon xp 2800 was 140's Farenheit and after applying Arctic Silver 5, I monitored the temperature and it stayed at the low 100's max was 102 . I think it also helped with performance because 3dmark2003 was always around 5350ish and I just ran another test right after the arctic silver and it ran up to 5390. Its not much but hey its cool to see it jump a few points. The only tough part was getting the stupid heatsink off and putting it back on (Its the one where you have to use a flat head screwdriver and if you are not careful enough, u might just slip and damage your motherboard. I had a 3 close calls shoving the screwdriver onto the motherboard) but other than that, I'm a happy camper.

I wouldnt be too happy about a 40 pt. jump in 3dMark, you could run it again and be 80 pts. lower. As for the temp. drop, never heard of AS5 making that much of a difference, were you using ANY thermal paste before? I went from a stock intel HSF w/ the thermal pad, to a Zalman CNPS7000-Cu w/ AS5 and only noticed a 4C drop at idle, and a 12-15C drop @ load. Good idea to note your temps in celsius, thats what everybody measures with, fahrenheit is confusing (which is also confusing since we use F for everything else)

 

[wkwong]

we should just switch everthing to metric

 

[Davegod]

40 units of F is about 22C difference isnt it??

Thats a LOT. Like, more than I'd expect of there was no goop there at all previously. TBH I suspect either there was a huge dollop of generic goop there before, or the 'sink wasnt installed correctly and now is.

Since you seem a little prone to slipping with the driver, next time use one those blade fits quite snugly in the holder and put a bit of cardboard or plastic where the 'driver might slip onto.

 

[pspada]

AS5 is good, but not 40 degrees worth of good. You had your hsf on backwards the first time, and got it on correctly after applying AS5.

 

[SneakyStuff]

I've got a Barton 2800+, and I was running at the following temps with the stock cooler.

CPU Diode- 60' C
CPU- 58' C

After buying an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2M, and applying the silicone paste they included, my idle CPU tsmps went to

CPU Diode- 52-53' C
CPU- 46' C

I'd say thats decent, but I was also thinking about getting some AS5, A lot of people say the 2800+'s run hot......

 

[jhurst]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
I've got a Barton 2800+, and I was running at the following temps with the stock cooler.

CPU Diode- 60' C
CPU- 58' C

After buying an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2M, and applying the silicone paste they included, my idle CPU tsmps went to

CPU Diode- 52-53' C
CPU- 46' C

I'd say thats decent, but I was also thinking about getting some AS5, A lot of people say the 2800+'s run hot......

Are those temps load or idle? Hopefully those are load temps. AS5 isn't going to make a big difference, if any at all (max 1-2C @ load, probably negligible @ idle). I wouldn't worry too much about your temps, especially if you aren't OC'ing, or raising the vcore.

 

[mangoluvr]

It was really old goop under the heatsink trust me, it wasn't greasy like its suppose to be. My computer kept on restarting everytime I did something cpu intentive like call of duty or some other demanding task. It kept starting over and over thats when I knew I had some heat problems and when I checked under the heatsink, I knew it was time to replace the stock paste with AS5. Plus inside the heatsink was a lot of dust, I had to use a vacuum cleaner to suck it clean. Now I play games and all with no hiccups, as far as the 40 degree farenheit, It may have dropped 40 degrees not only because of AC5 but maybe because I also turn on the air con or something. But I swear before I did anything about the heat problem the cpu temp was in the 140s after cleaning and AC5 it went down to 100's and still is

 

[dlerious]

The biggest difference probably came from cleaning your heatsink. If there was a lot of dust in there, it was
probably interfering with your airflow preventing your heatsink from functioning properly.

 

[digitalduck]

Question...isnt there a cheaper place to get Artic Silver? Newegg has it for $3.99 which is fine..but the shipping is $4!!! And when I buy it with a chip set cooler they charge me shipping for that and still $4 for the paste..I love Newegg, but the sme price for SH? Come on....

 

[lenjack]

no way AS5 could make anywhere near that much difference. I agree with the others that your heatsink was not mounted right to start with.

 

[ponyo]

Arctic Silver should only lower temp by 2 or 3 C at MOST compared to worst generic paste. I would say that's generous. If it lowers lot more than that something was wrong before. Many times it's not installing heatsink correctly or simply too much dust buildup.

 

[Mandos]

Who cares whether it made the difference?!? You're all so pessimistic! Just say "Great job for making your CPU cool and have it done, honestly! Damn party poopers!