Thermal paste setting?

THEMIGHTYMAXTOR

THEMIGHTYMAXTOR

THEMIGHTYMAXTOR

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Ok, I have just reseated and applyed new arctic silver 5 paste following the guide on their website. Idle temps on my E6600 at stock are 44c average in coretemp. My cooler is the aquagate r120 meant to be as good as decent air cooling. Does thermal paste take a few days to melt in before I see my final temps or will they stay the same??
 
That's the problem with AS5, it takes a good few hours of burn in. From memory I'm sure it's around 200 hours.

Plus if you follow the guide, you shouldn't overclock during that period either :(

That's why I've gone over to MX-2, no curing and a degree or two better than AS5 even after that has cured.
 
I would have thought you would be running a tad cooler than that with that cooler, what volts you using?

My E2140 @ 3ghz & 1.38V under a Noctua is idle @ 38deg on both cores. Then again how efficient is that cooler meant to be, I've had no experience with it.
 
Sounds about right - I've seen everything from 30 degrees (wc) to 50 degrees (stock cooler).

The crunch is what it goes to under load really.;)
 
well the last guy who had it was at 31c idle and 45 load on his E6750 and i have better case air flow, so its confusing but I have read reports that arctic silver takes time to cure and can drop as much as 10c!!
 
See how it settles over the next week then. I'm guessing you put enough and not too much AS5 on and you have made sure it is mounted right?

Also, your E6600 and aquagate block may not be making as good a contact as he did with his E6750.

What I am trying to say is neither may not be as flat as they should be. Say his E6750 was convex and the block was concave - both together would be a pretty good fit but it might be the block is concave and your chip is too - in which case, not very good contact.

If no improvement after a week I would be tempted to lap both chip and block but wait and see what happens. And you might be right about the 10 degrees. Although I didn't take note of temps the last time I used AS5, I found that my max stable overclock improved over weeks on my AMD 4200+ x2. Fresh install it wasn't happy above 2.4Ghz. Over weeks I slowly managed to gain more and more until it reached 3Ghz stable. I guess that was the AS5 curing.
 
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