AS5 Curing times and overclocking question.

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QuadDragon

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Should I wait until my AS5 is cured the 200 hours before I try to overclock my i7 860?
 
No. Test for stability/temps at stock and work from there at reasonable increments. If your temps go down in the future, then go for the bonus o/c. :)
 
Your temps won't change by more than a few degrees, so you might as well just go for it right now.
 
Why wait, if the deg or two delta in thermal performance affects your OC you are too close to the edge for stable daily operation anyway.
 
I agree one or 2 degrees should never be the difference in stability of your overall system.
In general I believe that you should allow for some thermal overhead to begin with, which is why we test using OCCT and Linpak. If I never use the total nominal clockspeed with all 4 *8 w/ht* cores loaded I should never see the worst case senario to begin with. Personally my goal is to find the maximum dynamic overlock I can acheive while maintaining around 70 to 75 degrees in nominal useage. Right now I am at 61C 62C at 3.3ghz ghz using 1.18v and the memory locked down to DDR 1600 at 7 - 7 - 7 - 26 timings. So when all cores are not loaded it operates at 3.9ghz. So it becomes an issue of how fast can you make it run while keeping the tempature where you want it with your overclock.
 
Rossi~ said:
Have a read of this article buy the [H]ard nuts http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/04/07/thermal_paste_shootout_q209/1




Really?

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/04/07/thermal_paste_shootout_q209/4
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O_RLY-Ya-Rly.jpg


AS is a PITA to remove from other components it gets on, is capacitive, and dries out over time. It's crap.
 
Not really, isopropyl alcohol cleans it right off with eas, capacitive? Don't be a tard and smear it on anything but the HSF and as for drying out, i've had processors with it on for 2 years straight and it's been fine..

Nice witty and pretty picture btw.
 
Rossi~ said:
Not really, isopropyl alcohol cleans it right off with eas, capacitive? Don't be a tard and smear it on anything but the HSF and as for drying out, i've had processors with it on for 2 years straight and it's been fine..

Nice witty and pretty picture btw.
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I believe MassiveOverkill is correct, AS5 is capacitive so sometimes on GPU's (and related hot parts on a GPU) AS5 isn't recommended.

However, for CPU cooling, I'm not sure what else it might get on besides the heatsink and the CPU heatspreader. Very easy to clean off.

and the yarly/orly thing is an old internet (also AWESOME) meme, he didn't come up with it himself. haha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY?
posting that just in case you didn't know, can't tell for sure from your post :p
 
hungryJonJon said:
I believe MassiveOverkill is correct, AS5 is capacitive so sometimes on GPU's (and related hot parts on a GPU) AS5 isn't recommended.

However, for CPU cooling, I'm not sure what else it might get on besides the heatsink and the CPU heatspreader. Very easy to clean off.

and the yarly/orly thing is an old internet (also AWESOME) meme, he didn't come up with it himself. haha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY?
posting that just in case you didn't know, can't tell for sure from your post :p
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Im 22, i get the ORLY, i was being sarcastic.
Also, i agreed that it was capacitive, i was pretty much just saying "whoop dee doo, don't be an idiot". It's like saying "water destroys electrics so don't use water cooling".
 
yeah, couldn't tell, that's why i said i couldn't tell. hah
those poor owls should've gotten some sort of kick back from all the publicity they got, sucks for them!
 
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