Do i NEED Thermal compound?

Fras · 19 Jun 2010 at 18:50

Hi,I was just wondering if i should buy a separate thermal compound for my CPU or is the one pre applied to the Artic Cooling freezer 7 pro good enough, i will be overclocking my i3.

Thanks in advance - Fras

ZXSpectrum · 19 Jun 2010 at 18:51

Standard stuff will be fine..

RJC · 19 Jun 2010 at 18:53

The Pre-applied on the cooler is good compound

Fras · 19 Jun 2010 at 18:54

Thanks guys.

setter · 19 Jun 2010 at 19:03

Yep, the freezer comes pre pasted with arctic coolings mx2, like an idiot i scrubbed it off thinking it was a low quality compound.

Marine-RX179 · 19 Jun 2010 at 19:22

setter said:
Yep, the freezer comes pre pasted with arctic coolings mx2, like an idiot i scrubbed it off thinking it was a low quality compound.

The original Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro only used MX-1. The pre-applied MX-2 on the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 is indeed a nice bonus for a budget CPU cooler.

Yesterdayt I replaced the stock cooler with a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 in one of my company's PC which got a Pentium 4 3.00GHz CPU, and it brought the idle temp from 70C down to 45C

Lleot · 19 Jun 2010 at 21:20

To bring it down that much must mean the heastsink wasn't attached properly

ricky · 19 Jun 2010 at 21:22

Or stock heatsink.

Marine-RX179 · 19 Jun 2010 at 21:32

Lleot said:
To bring it down that much must mean the heastsink wasn't attached properly

It was a stock CPU cooler/heatsink...and it was full of dust too.

setter · 19 Jun 2010 at 21:40

The freezer pro is a great little cooler, kept my E6600 at 56c under orthos load, even done ok on my q6600 at 3.4ghz until i switched to a TRUE black.

Merlin5 · 19 Jun 2010 at 23:24

Further to MX-2, how long will my tube last? I've only ever used about 3 beads of the stuff. Does it have a shelf life?