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If anyone's interested, despite reading stuff about Asus using a non-standard power cable connection and this potentially causing problems when changing the stock cooler, when fitting an Arctic Cooler today, although the connector was not an exact match, it was good enough. The Arctic's connector just required a bit 'extra' in the shove department.
I was getting increasingly peeved with the amount of noise the stock fan was making, and the Arctic is a huge improvement.
The other good thing is that, under load and with the same fan speed settings, it's running around 8 - 10c lower than before - I have yet to see if this increases the possible overclock.
The original thermal grease looked to be put on with some degree of care, and looked to be quality stuff (ie. it wasn't white gunk), but there was a lot of it...I think because there is a sizable gap between the core and the base of the cooler...I ended up squirting TIM cleaner around the core so it was in a bath of the stuff 'cos when I started wiping the grease off the core, there was so much of it, it was going everywhere...it took quite a long time.
As for the original cooler's arrangements for ram cooling, I swear that it was using rubber pads! I thought rubber was not very conductive, but the pads seem to have all the physical characteristics of rubber.....I must be wrong. Anyway, the Arctic has 'proper' melty thermal pad thingies which I guess is required given the number of bases to cover.
So at the moment I'm well pleased...I just hope I'm not posting here in a couple of weeks under the heading 'Arctic Cooler Failure', as many 'round here would have me believe.
Oh btw, the Arctic is a couple of cm longer than the stock cooler and so I had quite a bit of fun moving my hard drives around....why is it that things always take longer than you think?
I was getting increasingly peeved with the amount of noise the stock fan was making, and the Arctic is a huge improvement.
The other good thing is that, under load and with the same fan speed settings, it's running around 8 - 10c lower than before - I have yet to see if this increases the possible overclock.
The original thermal grease looked to be put on with some degree of care, and looked to be quality stuff (ie. it wasn't white gunk), but there was a lot of it...I think because there is a sizable gap between the core and the base of the cooler...I ended up squirting TIM cleaner around the core so it was in a bath of the stuff 'cos when I started wiping the grease off the core, there was so much of it, it was going everywhere...it took quite a long time.
As for the original cooler's arrangements for ram cooling, I swear that it was using rubber pads! I thought rubber was not very conductive, but the pads seem to have all the physical characteristics of rubber.....I must be wrong. Anyway, the Arctic has 'proper' melty thermal pad thingies which I guess is required given the number of bases to cover.
So at the moment I'm well pleased...I just hope I'm not posting here in a couple of weeks under the heading 'Arctic Cooler Failure', as many 'round here would have me believe.
Oh btw, the Arctic is a couple of cm longer than the stock cooler and so I had quite a bit of fun moving my hard drives around....why is it that things always take longer than you think?