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Thermaltake's white stuff or Artic Silver

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Slowlearner

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Geting ready to assemble, I just got a Thermaltake CPU cooler - it has a white material in the copper area carefully covered with a plastic cover. Should I scrape it off and apply Artic Silver. The CPU is a Athlon 1900+ (Palomino) which tends to run hot even without OC.
 
Scrape and rape! Arctic Silver 5 is always better than any thermal compond on the market IMO. I took my sony vaio laptop circa 2000 that was running ok I guess and was very bored so I opened up the laptop, disassembled it completely and while I was at it scraped off the crap they considered "thermal paste" it wasn't even thermal paste because it had paper keeping it together. The "thermal paste" looked like papier-meche, so I replaced it with arctic silver 5 and reassembled the laptop. You know how I know it's really working? Because soon as I run a program with 100% cpu utilization, I can hear the HSF in the laptop go on full power (better heat transfer) apposed to what it was before where it took a while for it to speed up.
 
Originally posted by: Slowlearner
Geting ready to assemble, I just got a Thermaltake CPU cooler - it has a white material in the copper area carefully covered with a plastic cover. Should I scrape it off and apply Artic Silver. The CPU is a Athlon 1900+ (Palomino) which tends to run hot even without OC.
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Yes, use AC5 over stock thermal grease.
 
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Scrape and rape! Arctic Silver 5 is always better than any thermal compond on the market IMO. I took my sony vaio laptop circa 2000 that was running ok I guess and was very bored so I opened up the laptop, disassembled it completely and while I was at it scraped off the crap they considered "thermal paste" it wasn't even thermal paste because it had paper keeping it together. The "thermal paste" looked like papier-meche, so I replaced it with arctic silver 5 and reassembled the laptop. You know how I know it's really working? Because soon as I run a program with 100% cpu utilization, I can hear the HSF in the laptop go on full power (better heat transfer) apposed to what it was before where it took a while for it to speed up.
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I find my laptop annoying when the fan turns on! I would've left it alone.

BTW, AS5 all the way.
 
I am getting my retail 3200+ processor today (yay). I ordered AS5 on the side based on the recommendations on this board. I'm wondering if I should clean the base of the retail HSF and cpu with anything before applying the AS5. www.arcticsilver.com gives instructions and just says to dab some AS5 (half the size of a BB) and to mount the heatsink (giving it a twist if possible). Mentions nothing about any kind of cleaning prior to application.
 
Give it a wipe with 99% isopropyl alcohol, won't hurt anything. BTW it won't twist much. I just knudged it back n forth 1 time and called it good.
 
I would just use the white stuff. It's already on there. Why do more work than necessary for virtually no gain?
 
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