Arctic 64 Freezer Pro - Fitting Advice

[nheather]

PLEASE IGNORE - I'VE JUST SPOTTED A THREAD WHICH ANSWERS THIS QUESTION - SORRY, SHOULD HAVE LOOKED MORE CAREFULLY.


I have parts for an upgrade, including an Athlon64 3700 and an Arctic 64 Freezer Pro.

After quick inspection I notice that the Arctic 64 Freezer Pro is pre-fitted with a thermal compound.

Now, in the past with lesser heatsinks, I have removed the pre-applied stuff and used Arctic Silver 3 compound instead.

However, before doing this I'd thought I'd check with you guys first ....

The Heatsink has non-metallic MX-1 paste pre-applied and according to the Arctic-Cooling site this is as good if not slightly better than AS3.

So should I just install as per the instructions or should I use AS3 instead - what do you guys do?

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Haven't fitted mine yet - just getting to grips with just how much data I need to keep and move off my machine before attempting a rebuild - reckon it would have been cheaper just to buy a new hard disk!!!

Anyway, my original question was about the quality of the supplied thermal compound. The thread I'm referring too (which I didn't save) confirmed that the supplied MX-1 compound is every bit as good as AS5.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

I have got partitions - 3 of them - one as MAIN, one as GAMES, and one as DATA.

I do know what I'm doing - I was actually referring to trying to remember all the things that you have stored (like passwords, favourites, windows keys, IRC servers, saved game files, email, documents, pictures). Most are where I put them but it's surprising where things get tucked away - especially games and apps that insist on using c:\documents and settings even though the application is installed on another partition.

Takes time to make sure you have got everything and not missing that little bit of info that is going to be a real pain to reproduce.

Cheers,

Nigel