H70 and Arctic Silver.

Dashik · 10 Nov 2010 at 00:41

Ok so I got an H70 and I'll replace the fans with Vipers shortly. Hopefully it will be a little quieter than my current setup.

Thing is I take it I should remove the TIM supplied with the H70 and use Arctic Silver 5 as per installing any other HSF?

Regards

James

OLDPHART · 10 Nov 2010 at 16:45

MX4 very good thermel paste, rjkoneill who works for OCUK swears by it, so he even spreads it on his toast so he looks cool... :rolleyes:

Dashik · 10 Nov 2010 at 16:52

I'm sure it is. But Ive got buckets of AS5 here

Might as well use that first.

Equally I can infer from your answer that it is indeed the case that you remove TIM and use AS5.

cammy5477 · 10 Nov 2010 at 16:54

Dashik said:
I'm sure it is. But Ive got buckets of AS5 here Might as well use that first.

Equally I can infer from your answer that it is indeed the case that you remove TIM and use AS5.

i changed from as5 to mx4 and dropped 3c idle....7c under load

just depends on how important temps are to you....

Dashik · 10 Nov 2010 at 17:03

Now a 7c drop is quite impressive

So I just went and ordered some MX4

cammy5477 · 10 Nov 2010 at 17:49

Dashik said:
Now a 7c drop is quite impressive

So I just went and ordered some MX4

good man....not that your going to smear it on your mobo but its non conductive aswell...for piece of mind

Pers · 11 Nov 2010 at 08:22

Looking forward to getting my MX-4 now it's been dispatched. I also went with dual Vipers and they make a big difference. Noise level is up a tad on my Noctuas but the drop in temps rocks.

psychas · 11 Nov 2010 at 09:54

i have h70 i changed thermal to mx3 also using apache fans. artic silver takes time to settle .

Dashik · 11 Nov 2010 at 18:51

I also got a couple of Akasa Vipers for the H70. I'll be fitting the H70 on sunday so lookign forward to a quieter and cooler pc. Then all I need to do is decide on changing a pair of HD 3970x2's for either a GTX580 if the price drops when the AMD 6990 comes out or if theirs not much in it get the 6990.

3t3P · 12 Nov 2010 at 15:31

I never found MX3 that hard to use, though I never spread it around at all...

It was so cold out of the tube I got frost bite on my fingers and had to have them amputated!

Orcvader · 12 Nov 2010 at 17:39

Rjk will now come and hug you for buying MX4

Should see some great temps, what CPU do you have?

Dashik · 14 Nov 2010 at 02:01

Ok so my H70 is in with MX4 and a couple of Akasa Vipers. Quieter than the 2 Noctas on the old Heatsink

Temps are down about 10c idle and maxing at 75c ish under load but hopefully may get a little lower when the MX4 settles in.

Very happy with it

On the down side my 2407 died this morning (think its the inverter so I might try replacing it) but will get a 2410 in any case in a week or 2 and if the 2407 can be repaired then bonus 2 x 24" monitors

I thought I had nothing better to do then plug the emergency spare monitor in only for the Enermax 850w PSU to go bang! I now have a Corsair HX1000 so hopefully that will last for a while. Was a good excuse to clean the case again

So in summary that was £700 ish of unplanned expense and back to where I started lol.