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i used generic stuff for my barton .. i've been so damn lazy to figure out how to clean it off and apply the AS3 to my cpu. one day perhaps.
 
4 in japanese is "shi" shi is also the word for death (yea, i know, japanese is the most screwed up language EVER)
 
Jeff, what brand 5900 do you have and what temps does it run at?

EDIT: Looked in your sig, saw that it's an Aopen and the temps.
 
4 is considered an unlucky number for Chinese, Japanese & Korean. It could mean death not only in Japanese but also in Korean & Chinese as well. Many old elevators in these countries will have an alphabet letter "F" instead of a numeric number for the 4th floor button.
 
Originally posted by: Doh!
4 is considered an unlucky number for Chinese, Japanese & Korean. It could mean death not only in Japanese but also in Korean & Chinese as well. Many old elevators in these countries will have an alphabet letter "F" instead of a numeric number for the 4th floor button.
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Shouldn't it be "D"?

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Temps seem to have stabilized for good at 51-53 C... go AS5! 😀
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just to be the Devils Advocate, didnt you say that is was a good time to clean out your case and heatsinks? i wonder how much cleaning you actually did and how much effect that alone may have had on changing the temps???

 
Originally posted by: scrubman
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Temps seem to have stabilized for good at 51-53 C... go AS5! 😀
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just to be the Devils Advocate, didnt you say that is was a good time to clean out your case and heatsinks? i wonder how much cleaning you actually did and how much effect that alone may have had on changing the temps???
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Cleaning out the case and heatsink in the past has lowered temps by only a couple degrees.
 
Originally posted by: scrubman
thats cool... you must not let it get TOO bad then! 😉
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I have a fan filter in front that I can slide out and vacuum off quick, and about every 3-4 months I end up cleaning stuff out... usually because I either have a new CPU or motherboard =)
 
Originally posted by: klah
There have been several thermal compound comparisons that show there is very little difference between any of the modern compounds.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ0

http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/case_cool/compounds/shootout/therm_so_nov02.shtml

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm
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That's been my personal experience as well when all are properly applied under very similar/near identical ambient and case temps. Going from AS3 to Shint-Etsu dropped temps only 1-1 1/2c in my case. Ceramique has given the same temp readings as the Shin-Etsu did. Thugsrook and MikeWarrior2 have both mentioned that you will see vey little difference in temps due to compounds to me when I linked some articles about Shin-Etsu being 6-8c cooler than AS3 at the time and both proved correct in my personal experience. I'd speculate that along with the cleaning helping temps there must be another factor aside from the AS5's thermal transfer capabilities@play here. I've used eveything from Stock thermal pads, generic, Shin-Etsu-CoolerMaster premium, Ceramique, and AS1-3, and only in the case of the generic have I seen more than 2c temp difference.

My reasons for prefering a particular compound over another is ease of clean-up&price. I have a couple of 22g tubes of Ceramique I picked up SVC awhile back for $20 shipped :beer: 90% of the systems I build for clients use retail coolers to protect the warranties so I have compound for some time to come me thinks 😀 BTW, the AS5 sounds like AS3 and Ceramique mixed based on the description Jeff provided, but I could be way off base here.
 
You should seriously try AS5. I just set the speed back down to 2.2 Ghz on default voltage and it's running 47 C (diode) crunching SETI@Home. It never ran that cool before at 2.2 Ghz, it was always over 50 C even after a cleaning and fresh application of AS3 when I first installed this processor. Case temp is 21 still and socket temp is 43.

Just turned SETI@Home off... been idle now for about 10 minutes... diode temps is 43-44 and socket temp is 40... case temp is still 21.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: pillage2001
You missed out the most important test!!!!! How does it taste??
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Strangely enough, pretty much like a combination of peanut butter and bubble yum!
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I'm getting 10!!!!! w00t. 😀

In all seriousness, I think the 3-4C temp difference justifies the cost to get a new tube over the existing tube of AS2 and AS3 I have. Can't seem to finish those damn thing. 😀
 
Originally posted by: pillage2001
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: pillage2001
You missed out the most important test!!!!! How does it taste??
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Strangely enough, pretty much like a combination of peanut butter and bubble yum!
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I'm getting 10!!!!! w00t. 😀

In all seriousness, I think the 3-4C temp difference justifies the cost to get a new tube over the existing tube of AS2 and AS3 I have. Can't seem to finish those damn thing. 😀
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Too bad they don't sell like .5 gram packets for those people who don't reapply every other weekend =)
 
since participating in this topic i realized that my temps had gone up from my original install earlier this year... i was hitting 51 and 52 celcius under load... did a thorough cleaning and got it back to normal, which is mid 40s for a high... found quite a buildup in my cpu heatsink... so my point is, i dropped just over 5 degrees simply from cleaning!! im happy again!! i know that hitting th elow 50s prob doesnt matter much but with this huge overclock im running i feel better not ever reaching in the 50s at all 🙂
 
Originally posted by: scrubman
since participating in this topic i realized that my temps had gone up from my original install earlier this year... i was hitting 51 and 52 celcius under load... did a thorough cleaning and got it back to normal, which is mid 40s for a high... found quite a buildup in my cpu heatsink... so my point is, i dropped just over 5 degrees simply from cleaning!! im happy again!! i know that hitting th elow 50s prob doesnt matter much but with this huge overclock im running i feel better not ever reaching in the 50s at all 🙂
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Cleaning is especially important when you're using a heatsink with lots of fins very close together.
 
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