Worth putting AS5 on?

Mortah · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:26

Hey guys,

Just put my new rig together... Its an X2 3800+ with an Arctic 64 Pro... I just put it on using the paste / tape thats already on the HSF (Can't remember whether it was paste or not

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I'm getting idle temps of around 37 and full load temps of 45 / 46 (Speedfan boosts my CPU fan to 100% instead of 50% when it goes over 45 and it stays very close to 45).

Question is: Would it be worth taking the HSF off, cleaning it and the CPU up and then reapplying but using AS5 (I have some kicking around).

Cheers!

hp7909 · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:37

Give the gunk time! All thermal compounds need time to 'settle-in', AS5 iteslf needs close to 200hrs :eek:

Also in SpeedFan, you can get the right config for your mobo. Shoulde be under Info tab then Get Config button :cool:

Mikebert4 · 7 Jun 2006 at 13:10

I wouldn't clean the stuff that came with the freezer64 pro off... give it a week or two to burn in and be amazed!

I had this HSF using both AS5 and the pre-applied stuff... the temperature difference wasn't detectable after a burn-in period, though the AS5 was better for the first 50 hours or so.

I ran both for 300-ish hours and checked temps in speedfan, somthing like 45'C load temps at 1.6v (on my 3000+). Tis a good HSF and the paste they gots on there (is it called HF5 or somthing?) is pretty damm good.

happy clocking!

Mikey1280 · 7 Jun 2006 at 16:11

I think the paste with the Artic Freezers is MX1, just as good as as5 in most reviews

Townlea · 7 Jun 2006 at 16:46

Mikey1280 said:
I think the paste with the Artic Freezers is MX1, just as good as as5 in most reviews

Yep, the difference would probably be like 1C lol. MX1 is very good

Mortah · 7 Jun 2006 at 17:07

hp7909 said:
Give the gunk time! All thermal compounds need time to 'settle-in', AS5 iteslf needs close to 200hrs

Also in SpeedFan, you can get the right config for your mobo. Shoulde be under Info tab then Get Config button

It seems the Asus A8R-MVP isn't on their little list of motherboards

hp7909 · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:14

Mortah said:
It seems the Asus A8R-MVP isn't on their little list of motherboards

2 new maybe? Though, I did not like how Speedfan controlled my fans. As in it would start low then go up high & remain there, never coming down again :mad:

Now, happily using the BIOS setting (for a A8V)

Mikebert4 · 7 Jun 2006 at 23:18

Townlea said:
Yep, the difference would probably be like 1C lol. MX1 is very good

almost exactly! i wish I still had the Pic's to show it, but i've formatted about 20 times since then...

And as far as I know the 64 Pro fits all socket 939 MoBo's.. though I had a problem on my Old ASUS A8N-SLi with clearance from the first DIMM slot, solved by using the other two slots for my RAM