quick question

Speedy Pete · 22 Apr 2009 at 23:53

Just got a noctua cooler but i cant find my arctic silver tube.
second one ive bloody lost!

Do you think it will be ok to scrape off the paste that was on the stock intel cooler that im using.
Im 95% sure it was paste and not a pad.
And also i remember there was quite a bit of the stuff there!

Infernum · 23 Apr 2009 at 00:27

This is for an i7? Why not just use the stock cooler until you get more arctic silver? That way you won't have to clean the thermal grease off of the Noctua when it comes to appplying arctic silver

Speedy Pete · 23 Apr 2009 at 00:55

its just for a core duo,
6420 at 3.2stock but had it at 3.4ghtz on stock cooler and volts.
im sure i will see 3.6Ghtz+ plus with a little bump to the vcore with this noctua cooler.

But i just cant find my artic silver

Surely if there is enough paste there it will be fine?

Infernum · 23 Apr 2009 at 00:58

Yeah, don't see why not. At least if the temps are high, you'll know why. Athough my Noctua uh12p se1366 came with noctua brand thermal compound. Does your Noctua have this?

Speedy Pete · 23 Apr 2009 at 00:59

nah my mate just let me borrow it before he can sell it because he cant fit it in his case.. thing is he nicked the thermal grease outta the box first! lol

freddie64 · 23 Apr 2009 at 07:12

I would just order some more paste, you should get it tommorow.

Is it worth the hassle using the noctua untill he sells it?
As you have to remove the motherboard to install\uninstall the cooler.

Could you not buy it off him? may get it cheaper been a mate.

Speedy Pete · 23 Apr 2009 at 10:37

yeah ive just bought it off him. 25quid, thermal paste arriving today from him! i will be back with some updates of the overclock

Speedy Pete · 23 Apr 2009 at 22:19

Ok ive installed it inside my antec900, what a beast it is!
Looked in my bios and my 6420 is saying its at 7x400=2.8ghtz apart from everything in windows is saying its 8x400=3.2ghtz, which one is right?

cje · 23 Apr 2009 at 22:22

I'd say BIOS. Though I'd try superPI and compare your results with other people with the same setup.

You haven't got speedstep or c1e or any power saving features on? (Even if you did it would report 9x in BIOS but drop it in windows, so I'm stumped).

Speedy Pete · 24 Apr 2009 at 03:29

cpu z and coretemp and windows all reckon its 3.2Ghtz but still the bios says 2.8ghtz! LOL what the hell is goin on?

Speedy Pete · 24 Apr 2009 at 11:23

well this really sucks now, aparantly my bios needed updating to show the correct frequency. but afer installing the bios i have only up to 8x multiplyer! so no further than 3.2Ghtz for me! >.<

Speedy Pete · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:01

managed to overclock it to 3.55Ghtz! am well happy with this noctua! all case fans are now on quiet too!