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Titan Fenrir Evo - MX3 or supplied grease?
- Thread starter jaysus
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Man of Honour
Do not use Olive oil.. as someone the other day asked me 
Soldato
It come's with TIM > Royal Grease Thermal Compound > googled it came up with nothing > you may as well use the latest Arctic Cooling Thermal Paste > MX4 a lot easier to spread than MX3 and better temp's....
Gah. Got the stock cooler off, reached for the fitting instructions for AM3 and I can't find them. AM2 and AM2+, and K8 yes, but not AM3.
Posting from phone now. Could someone tell me if the fitting is the same as one of the others? Tried going on the Titan website but my phone isn't agreeing with either flash or java. Alternatively could someone dig out a direct link to the correct fitting instructions for me please?
Posting from phone now. Could someone tell me if the fitting is the same as one of the others? Tried going on the Titan website but my phone isn't agreeing with either flash or java. Alternatively could someone dig out a direct link to the correct fitting instructions for me please?
Soldato
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Mx4 better than MX3
Associate
MX3. And what's wrong with the MX4? Or do you not yet know about it...
He said he already has MX3.
Well that was an absolute cow of a job. I have the dexterity of the jolly green giant and it really showed. It's taken me two and a half hours total. The majority of that was dealing with other little jobs as they came up - everything was made more difficult because of how much room the Fenrir takes up. Beast of a thing it is.
That said fitting the thing was a nightmare - I used the 'pea' approach with the MX-3 but I couldn't get the heatsink to stay still whilst I slotted and screwed the bracket into place. It felt like I needed an extra hand - maybe I should draft the missus in to help. As a consequence I can't help but think that the MX-3 hasn't been properly applied. Oh, and in the pic below - I managed to knock the blue thing in the middle with Gigabyte written on top of it. I'm not sure what it is but it feels fairly loose now (though not as though it's going to come off.
My idle temps (in a warm house thats had heating on all day, and with case near a radiator) is around 27 degrees, which isn't much less than normal (about 4 degrees less.) That being said I've had Prime95 running for about 5 minutes and under load it seems to settle around 48-49 (this is all with voltages at whatever is their default.)
As requested, a couple of pic's:
That said fitting the thing was a nightmare - I used the 'pea' approach with the MX-3 but I couldn't get the heatsink to stay still whilst I slotted and screwed the bracket into place. It felt like I needed an extra hand - maybe I should draft the missus in to help. As a consequence I can't help but think that the MX-3 hasn't been properly applied. Oh, and in the pic below - I managed to knock the blue thing in the middle with Gigabyte written on top of it. I'm not sure what it is but it feels fairly loose now (though not as though it's going to come off.
My idle temps (in a warm house thats had heating on all day, and with case near a radiator) is around 27 degrees, which isn't much less than normal (about 4 degrees less.) That being said I've had Prime95 running for about 5 minutes and under load it seems to settle around 48-49 (this is all with voltages at whatever is their default.)
As requested, a couple of pic's:
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you have it so it blows air into your case like thatWhile you are re-seating it, you should fill the grooves between the heatpipes on the contact surface of the heatsink with paste. (Unless you have already done this.).
Associate
Make sure the MX3 is applied correctly, is it quite hard to spread.
And is that an IDE drive?
And is that an IDE drive?
Associate
humm could this be why my temp seem high? I only applied a thin line of as5 to my i7 920.