Corsair H50 Paste?

MrElve · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:06

Does anybody know what thermal paste comes pre-applied to the Corsair H50 watercooler?

And tell me if I should clean the copperplate base when I get it and replace it with my arctic silver 5 or is the paste good enough to be left on? also is it better than my coolermaster V8 which is running arctic silver 5?, I want improvements

kmufc77 · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:09

Yeah you get a some TIM already applied on the H50 and its pretty good stuff

MrElve · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:31

kmufc77 said:
Yeah you get a some TIM already applied on the H50 and its pretty good stuff

TIM?

PhillyDee · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:31

MrElve said:
TIM?

Thermal Interface Material

kmufc77 · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:31

Thermal Interface Material

MrElve · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:38

Ahh I guessed that much. Do you know what it is exactly? like MX3? etc. or would it be some good stuff made by corsair themselves

and should i replace it with my arctic silver 5?

kmufc77 · 26 Feb 2011 at 20:54

Its made by Scythe and is very good,just leave it on there you will get good results with it.

wildman · 27 Feb 2011 at 09:17

According to the video linked in the OCUK store for H50. the paste is supposed be could because it doesn't take as long to 'cure' ?

I guess this means it settles in a lot quicker giving better conduction of heat to the copper from the die ?

On another note, when you install a H50 how do you know how tight to screw the fixing bolts in. I am going to be getting H50 for my new setup and I am bricking it that will apply my usual brute force to the screwdriver and screw them so damn tight I'll end up punching a square shaped piece of motherboard out with the socket and cpu attached !!!!!!!!!

old gamer · 28 Feb 2011 at 15:03

i found the paste more than good enough but temps did improve over time, one tip i picked up was to re tighten the heatsink screws after a couple of weeks