Akasa Venom Thermal Paste

cochoc · 19 Jan 2011 at 16:59

Does the Venom come with thermal paste sufficient for the task of applying to a 2600k cpu, or would I need to buy some paste?

Thanks.

OLDPHART · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:48

The Venom has Akasa Thermal Compound applied so probably ok, OCUK sell it but if you are going to overclock use somthing like MX4 which has better performance.

RichBowman · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:38

Mine came with a little sachet of thermal paste. I'm sure it'll do the job for your intended purposes.

Cheers,

Rich

cochoc · 20 Jan 2011 at 15:33

RichBowman said:
Mine came with a little sachet of thermal paste. I'm sure it'll do the job for your intended purposes.

Cheers,

Rich

I'd like to overclock to 4.6ghz/4.8ghz so hopefully the standard paste will do the trick!

RichBowman · 21 Jan 2011 at 08:46

There's a good guide here:

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...sk=view&id=170&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=5

to go through the various ways of apply the thermal compound to the direct touch heatpipes -they do a seem a bit awkward, but equally seem to work pretty efficiently.

(Thanks to forum member Loque for finding that!)

All the best,

Rich

Philtor · 21 Jan 2011 at 08:58

I would use MX-3 or MX-4 myself if your intending to Overclock. That's just me..

Rob_J · 21 Jan 2011 at 09:37

Mine also came with a little packet of white paste, that went straight into the bin and AS5 was applied.

RichBowman · 21 Jan 2011 at 09:43

Rob_J said:
Mine also came with a little packet of white paste, that went straight into the bin and AS5 was applied.

Agreed - Mine too! But I'm sure if the OP was keen to get going, it would serve a purpose and tide him over until he managed to get something with a bit higher spec. Can't remember if I used AS5 or MX-3 though -to be honest, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference at the end of the day...

Cheers,

Rich

RichBowman · 21 Jan 2011 at 23:31

Just as a follow up - this inspired me to go back and check the seating/TIM on my venom. Took it off, cleaned up and removed the excess. I ended up putting a very minimal amount of TIM on the base of the cooler (filling in the gaps between the heat-pipes), then putting in the two lines of TIM as suggested in the link

As a result, my CPU is running a good 8-10C cooler than before.

Mug happier about the performance now - I was considering ditching it and getting something more 'conventional' like a Megahalems. Looks like I've saved myself best part of £50!

Thought I'd share my experience....

Rich