Temps Risen with Artic Silver 5 With H50

And btw on the bottem of the H50 the copper is not even lapped. its very poor. like brushed aliuminium sidewards scratches. You would have thought they would have polished it up nice'n'shiny
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The surface being FLAT is technically MUCH more important - dont worry about the marks, thats what the TIM is for.
 
id also change the thermal compound :D its so pre 2004.

i use TIM Consultants 0098 paste or the New Artic Silver Matrix paste which was also made jointly by Tim Consultants which are available at a lot of outlets now.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/matrix.htm

its sorta like mx3 consistancy like putty :D of course mx3 is another contender and they are all non conductive and better temps than artic silver 5 :(

use whatever you fancy but artic silver 5 was obsolete several years ago :D
 
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I use mine mx-3 and my H50 is perfect, idle at 32C, 32C, 32C, 32C and full load with linpack at 74C, 74C, 74C, 74C after lapping the H50 with 4Ghz at 1.26vcore at the bios.
 
can anyone clear this up for me , Should i apply push down on the top of the heatsink fan while applying pressure on the push pins? akasa nero btw . Just wanna make sure that im re-sitting the hsf correctly before i send away for rma again.
 
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I use mine mx-3 and my H50 is perfect, idle at 32C, 32C, 32C, 32C and full load with linpack at 74C, 74C, 74C, 74C after lapping the H50 with 4Ghz at 1.26vcore at the bios.
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Hi Bull dog I was wondering if I could pick your brains a bit as I am not having any operational errors with my H50 but am having a problems with temps.

I run a 920 d0 [email protected] when in windows this is with loadline calibration on. The problem is I am not happy with the idle temps or the load temps. When I was using it with my 9550 it did perform slightly better than my thermalright true.

But since moving it over to my i7 setup it doesn't seem to cope as well.

My idle temps are 48, 46, 49, 45 and when running linpack I am seeing load temps of high 80's (at least 85c+). While I appreciate the i7 chips run hotter than previous incarnations of cpu's I have had the worry aspect is that my setup is currently naked (i.e no case) and my windows are open. This problem will only get worse once it goes into a case and the weather gets warmer.

I am using Mx-2 paste and two xilence redwing fans 120mm in push pull config. I did use noctua p12 fans but found them to not perform as well and the noctuas made a strange resonant sound so swapped them out.

I tried the earlier method of tightening the screws as much as possible but that had no effect. You mentioned in your post you lapped your h50. How much did you take off roughly 1 mm?

Is your voltage in bios enabled with loadline calibration? I am ready to give up on the h50 for cooling my i7 setup overclocked and try a different alternative as it just not working out as well as it did on my 775 setup.

My own personal feeling is that the radiator cannot cope with the need to dissipate that much heat with it small surface area. Compared to my thermochill rad it much thinner width wise. While it may have worked in your setup it just totally inadequate cooling wise in my setup.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I know you shouldnt try this but its up to your own risk.. if u want to that is...

Have your computer on and run CPUID or any temp software. Like i did i put a little bit of pressure to the Block itself. If you look at the tempertures they might drop. i wiggled my around and tightned up the screws. i got like 9c drop temps just moving it around.

And how did you apply your paste? i found out the best way after about 4 applications. is to spread it on. thin layer.

Stefan.
 
hello, sorry to kind of steel the thread but i can't pm anyone :(

@GoRedwings19

what made you go from the Q9550 to the I7 setup??

what performance gains have you noticed? and was it worth the money? :P

thanks hope to get a reply off you or anyone else whos done same / simular thing

thanks
 
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