Thermal Paste

[cycloneuk]

Decided to try the small blob in middle of CPU method and my temp actually went up to 45c when idle, decided to cover the entire CPU in a thin layer and now i'm sitting at 39/40c idle.

Will my idle temp actually come down a little once it's cured? takes around 200 hours apparently.

 

[panyan]

Will my idle temp actually come down a little once it's cured? takes around 200 hours apparently.

theoretically yes, but i didnt notice an appreciable difference

 

[Plec]

Decided to try the small blob in middle of CPU method and my temp actually went up to 45c when idle, decided to cover the entire CPU in a thin layer and now i'm sitting at 39/40c idle.

Do you have exposed heatpipes - as this could explain the anomoly? (different application method required)

Will my idle temp actually come down a little once it's cured? takes around 200 hours apparently.

If it's artic silver supposedly - although i've never noticed it, personally.

 

[Shadz]

Yeh once the thermal paste has cured a little bit the temp should comes down a bit more
by about 2-3 degree, it wont be a lot but it will come down a small amount of should do
at least.

 

[simbady]

Do you have exposed heatpipes - as this could explain the anomoly? (different application method required)

Which is?

 

[Plec]

Which is?

If you want a full description read the artic silver application instructions for exposed heat pipes.

But below is a post i did on another thread explaining the process:

Advice for exposed heatpipes on the base only:

If you have exposed heatpipes (ridged surface) you could try tinting the surface of the heatsink first to fill in the voids made by the exposed pipes on the base (artic silver 5 advises this but i've used this method with other gunk if i felt the heatsink required it.). You're basically filling the gaps, created by the exposed pipes, but scrape of all the excess so the base of the heatsink only has a very slight tint of gunk (credit card is great for this). The theory is that it fills, the sometimes pretty large, gaps that exposed heatpipes can cause on the base of the heatsink.

After tiniting the heatink you then only need to apply a single line (less than a mm thick) down the middle of the core (vertically) - but don't go from edge to edge leave a 5mm gap at each end.

This method should ensure that the pipe gaps don't suck up all of the gunk on the cpu and allow it to spread as it would on a shiny flat heatsink base.

I will stress that you only need to use this method on exposed heatpipe heatsinks (and even then not all of the time) - there is no need to use this method with perfectly flat based heatsinks.

 

[Surveyor]

Which is?

This:

 

[cycloneuk]

I don't have exposed heat pipes, i have redone it again and just coated the bottom of the heat sink. The temp is the same as coating the entire cpu but this is less messy. Maybe when i did the blob on the middle of the cpu it wasn't quite covering all 4 cores once the heat sink spread it.

 

[simbady]

Cheers for that info went from this


To this


and -3C

 

[Plec]

Cheers for that info went from this
>snip<
and -3C

No worries - glad it helped.

 

[logi-cat]

It will go down but not to much, maybe 1 or 2 degrees. For best results you could try lapping the CPU. Just a suggestion.