New life into a 5850

[bbbearrr]

Hi all.

I have a Radeon 5850 given to me by a friend.

It needs some TLC, dust clearing out etc

Looking at put a new coating of thermal paste on it too.

I have some arctic silver 5 coming for my cpu, would this be ok to use on the gpu also ?

Anything I should look out for ?!

 

[pgi947]

Just make sure everything is clean and the thermal pads are all as complete as possible and you're good to go

AS5 is conductive (I think?) so you may be all round safer with something like MX-4 which is non-conductive and slightly better thermally.

 

[evohicks]

I used some MX-2 thermal compound on both my CPU and GPU, it was fine, good temps.

 

[bbbearrr]

Ah.

I've already ordered the AS5 stuff. V

 

[pgi947]

It will be fine just don't go nuts with it, Tim has come a long way since as5 was king

 

[humbug]

Just make sure everything is clean and the thermal pads are all as complete as possible and you're good to go

AS5 is conductive (I think?) so you may be all round safer with something like MX-4 which is non-conductive and slightly better thermally.

Arctic Silver say its not, but yeah, it, erm? it definitely is.....

 

[Jony27]

sell it on the famous auction site for profits

 

[Macky]

Sell it as the the 58 series make a killing on ebay due to being really good at bitcoin mining. Could buy a 7850 with the funds which would be a lot better for actual gaming.

 

[wazza300]

Bitcoinmining is that where you spend more on electricity that you actually make by mining?

 

[humbug]

Bitcoinmining is that where you spend more on electricity that you actually make by mining?

Actually no, you get more money out of mining than what the costs are. thats why people do it, some have dedicated Miners with 4 6990 / 7990's running 24/7, they make a lot of money out of it.

 

[wazza300]

Yh I was just teasing,I havnt really looked into it tbh,I know there's all various rates and sites that pay more ect

 

[spoffle]

It's best to use a non-conductive thermal paste on your GPU, but the thermal properties of different pastes is largely rubbish.

 

[wazza300]

@ the op some mx4 is a good paste for gpu's,used it plenty times,get the suck up Hoover on the heatsink fins to clean it or a can of compressed air n it'll perform like new again

 

[bbbearrr]

Thanks for the suggestions.

If I use the AS5 that is still going to be ok ? You've got me worried now

 

[NoobCannon]

Used as5 on my watercooled 7970 and its been fine . 40'c under load

 

[tribz]

AS5 on my 7970. Just spread it very thin (almost see through) and make sure you get none on the surrounding tiny little chips around the core.

 

[humbug]

Thanks for the suggestions.

If I use the AS5 that is still going to be ok ? You've got me worried now

As explained above, just make sure its clean and not to thick, its fine.

I still have tubes of it and still use it.