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Poll: Who used thermal pad on intel retail HS fan?

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PaleRider1

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I like to know who used the included thermal pad and who scraped it off and applied thermal compound?
What were your results?
 
I just used the thermal pad with my P3 667. I overclocked it to 750MHz without problem. Of course, if you plan on overclocking heavily, good thermal compound is a must.
 
I had to scrape off the original thermal pad of the P4 heatsink, because I changed motherboards. I applied Antec brand thermal compound instead, and it works very well.

When I used thermal pad OVER the original but rather missing Intel's pad (just that thin aluminium (?) foil was left there, what I didn't noticed first), the results were not very good. The pad was smaller then CPU, and didn't sit on the sink directly, resulting in temps about 5C higher on idle, and warming up much faster when under use...

Since now I'll use compound exclusively, unless I'll have the new heatsink with pad already attached, and matching or exceeding the size of the CPU chip itself.
 
Accordnig to something i read regarding this post, at some point or other Intel were using the stuff mentioned there which so far everything has shown it beating ASIII. Dont exactly have much faith in some of those reviews (to put it mildly) but this Shin-Etsu G-751 steadily gaining my confidence.

Not all thermal pads are worth scraping off. Certainly i read a few reviews of my Taisol 760xxx which mentioned the pad doing aswell as quality paste.

If I sound vague its because I dont really know 🙂
 
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