Artic Silver 5 questions for new heat sink/Fan

bomberboysk said:
You are quite severely hindering your heatsinks operation then, as 1) you are contaminating the thermal transfer medium with foreign oils from the surface of your skin, and 2) introducing the means for air pockets to form. For all intents and purposes, air is not thermally conductive(when compared to thermal interface materials that is) and will result in poorer cooling performance.
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*looks at cpu temp at 30C idle and shrugs* dont know how much worse it could get than that... drops to 28 and thats pretty darn near ambient...i could see an issue if you were eating pringles or something and slathering on AS5 but honestly...really now?
 
FuryRosewood said:
*looks at cpu temp at 30C idle and shrugs* dont know how much worse it could get than that... drops to 28 and thats pretty darn near ambient...i could see an issue if you were eating pringles or something and slathering on AS5 but honestly...really now?
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Thats because you have cool n quiet enabled, i have seen sub 30C temps on a stock AMD cooler with stock thermal interface material with cool n quiet enabled. Thermal surfaces are VERY sensitive to foreign contamination, as any time you touch something you will leave oils and fingerprints, as well as dead skin cells.
bigfellla said:
For your cpu the instructions are quite specific: http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appmeth/int/vl/intel_app_method_vertical_line_v1.1.pdf
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Those instructions actually have produced worse temperatures when using arctic silver 5 for me, the reason arctic silver suggests that method is due to the nature of the cores on the core 2 quad lineup, as they are not a monolithic design and instead two separate dual cores on one actual chip. However, their demonstration is logical in nature,however you generally end up with too much thermal interface material when using that method and it will tend to come out the sides over the IHS, and also not spread as well. Note- i am by no means a thermal engineer, i am just explaining my personal results from my testing.

Also guys, if you buy thermal interface material in the future...buy arctic silver matrix, not arctic silver 5. Matrix is actually just TIM consultants TC Grease 0098(same exact formula) under a different name, and TC Grease 0098 has been pretty consistant in beating arctic silver 5.
 
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bomberboysk said:
Note- i am by no means a thermal engineer, i am just explaining my personal results from my testing.
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Thanks for that Bomber good to know, however at 16 I doubt anyone thought you were an engineer of anything ;)

btw, you know i love ya bomb! ;)
 
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