Crazy Artic Silver! What a temp drop...finally

[MichaelD]

No probs here...I know what I'm doing...most of the time.

Anyway, about a month ago I had to reseat the HS on my heavily overclocked Barton XP2500. It's been running at 2.2GHz (11x200) since the day it came out of the package, 2+ years ago. 🙂

When I first applied the AS5, I went thru the usual run the system for a few days and let it cool overnight deal. Stress temps were in the high 40's.

Yesterday morning, I booted up, started gaming. Finished gaming. CPU at 36C. 😕 Right now I'm just surfing and it's at a comfy 32C.

Arctic Silver is the best, most confusing, TIM on earth. You must have Teh Patience to reap the rewardz.

 

[Oyeve]

I hear ya. When I built my latest system (AMD X2 3800+, 2 7800GT, 6 hds etal) I had decided off the bat not to use the stock hs/fan so I bought the zalman zp7000 or whatever the hell its called and used AS and my temps were like 53c idle! I kept using various amounts and was going crazy until I just used a little rice dot of AS and left the machine on for like 4 days straight. Now its 35c idle and ~50c under full load. Not bad considering how much crap is in my case, but those first few days seeing the 67c on the CPU freaked me out!

 

[drum]

i'll give you :thumbsup: for the barton 2500+ mine's still running like a champ too.

 

[MichaelD]

Yep fellas. AS is a strange, but wonderful little beastie! It's very weird how it works; you've got the unknown break-in period where it's anywhere from sucks to wonderful, then (after an unspecificied for your CPU) time it breaks in and then you don't dare touch it for a few years. I mean, I just finished played some HL2 (I still dig it!) and CPU temp was 35C, in a room of about 25C. Thats' not bad at all. 🙂