To yous arctic silver, or to not use arctic silver

i believe it is recommended to use good quality paste over the stock/intel stuff, making the heat transfer more efficient than otherwise, and i believe it comes with some on it that will require removal with a high consentration alchohol or something like that, someone else should have a better suggestion, could google it and just see what comes up.
 
Use the arctic silver, but make sure it is applied properly.

1) Clean old paste off with arcticlean/isporopyl alcohol and a lint free cloth
2) Apply a rice grain sized amount of paste on the centre of the CPU/GPU
3) Mount the cooler, do not lift it up once it has touched the paste
4) Screw/clamp it on, which will spread the paste.

And that's it.
 
i believe it is recommended to use good quality paste over the stock/intel stuff, making the heat transfer more efficient than otherwise, and i believe it comes with some on it that will require removal with a high consentration alchohol or something like that, someone else should have a better suggestion, could google it and just see what comes up.

Much better, jonny.

I concur-- I use 90% isopropyl (rubbing alcohol) to clean the surfaces, and like linkin said, just a rice-grain-sized dot in the center of the processor surface is sufficient.
 
stuff works great have it install with basically the same hs
idles at 46 degrees c but because its an unlock cpu plus my case is a cheap 15 dollar one from geeks.com, but i never goes into the 60s
 
Idle temps are nothing anyway, load temps are what matter. You could probably bring the idle temp down by enabling Cool'n'Quiet in the BIOS.
 
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