Thermalright HR-03

EclipsedTerror

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Title says it all. Included in the kit(HR-03) is some thermal paste from thermalright.

Was wondering if another paste like Arctic Silver would be better than the generic stuff? What about on the HSI and RAM heatsinks? :confused:
 

Noubourne

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I used AS because I have it laying around (been using it 3 years now), but now that I have so many tubes laying around I wouldn't bother next time. They're all within a couple degrees of each other, if not closer.

Thermalright isn't shuffling out "generic" stuff either. They have some special formula that they use, so it's not like the 5-cent quality thermal pad that intel crams onto their stock heatsinks. I say go for it.
 

adairusmc

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I used Arctic Silver 5 when I installed mine, and it works great. I do not know how is compares to the included thermalright paste though, I never tried using that stuff.

For the HSI and the Ram heatsinks I used the Arctic Silver Adhesive. MUCH better than using the supplied pads.
 

zagood

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If you're sloppy, use the included paste, Ceramique, or other non-metallic based thermal grease. GPU cores, being installed directly on the PCB, have a lot of little things around them you can short out. While the risk is minimal (AS5 and other metallic pastes aren't THAT conductive), it's still there.

-z
 

BonzaiDuck

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You'll use about 60% of a single tube of this stuff for your GPU, and the remaining 40% is just in excess of what will take care of your CPU:

IC Diamond

We've had plenty of discussions about this in recent weeks -- over the last two months or so.
 

JEDIYoda

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The issue of thermal pastes is really a non issue!
If you use whats is inculded you cannot go wrong!!
AS5 is not the standard anymore.
There are thermal pastes that are just as good and a few that you wiull see a degre or 2 better!

No company is going to send you crappy thermal paste to install on there top of the line heatsink!!

Peace!!