My supplies arrived!!!
So here I'll be showing you what the Arcti Clean does. Basically it eats away the old paste, you wipe what's left away (Had to do this 3 times on the cpu/cooler and 2 times on the gpu) and the second bottle basically makes it shiny and smooth
Next are the fans, and they are 100mm fans, with the TX3 fan clips mounted on them. The fans are nice because they have 100mm mounts and 92mm mounts.
The CPU and TX3 back in place with AS5 applied.
first fan attached.
second one.
Now on to the GTX 460.
As you can see the cheap thermal paste that came with the TX3 doesn't look like it applied very well. I certainly fixed that up!
Having finished with the 460, I pondered keeping the shroud and fan off and attaching the TX3's stick fan to the card in some way. Sadly I'm all out of zip ties so it has to wait
So now everything is back in and ready to go. Note that my old temps were 28c idle and 60c under load. Now for the new temps...
I like that improvement! I'll also post new temps after the AS5 cures, so expect them late next week.