h50 preapplied thermal paste? thoughts?

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Thoughts on the H50's preapplied thermal paste?

I'm about to change out the TRUE on my rig, I have some Shin-Etsu X23-7783D sitting here. Should I remove what's on the H50 and use my own or just keep what's on the h50 there, and then remove whatever is left over off of my cpu?
 
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the paste on the h50 is supposed to be pretty good. I would recommend keeping the paste on and see what temps you get before going through the process of removing it
 
l00segravel said:
the paste on the h50 is supposed to be pretty good. I would recommend keeping the paste on and see what temps you get before going through the process of removing it
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This is exactly what I am doing. About time to do some cleanup after 2-3 weeks on the OEM sludge.
 
I believe it has some type of Shin Etsu preapplied.
 
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Tested my h50 with pre applied and as5 burned in... literally seen no difference under exact same envrionments.... the only advice I can give is that you do a push pull and mount it near the bottom. My stacker 830 allowed me to mount my MB upsidedown "cpu socket on the bottom" allowing me to do push pull from the bottom of the case and hot air rising up through the top dropped 25C under load doing it this way... 98-99C load then thermal knock back 12x multi for 60seconds.... now it's 73-74 at 4ghz... 82 at 4.1
 
eViL_M@LuM said:
Tested my h50 with pre applied and as5 burned in... literally seen no difference under exact same envrionments....
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Same, with MX2 and Noctua's supplied paste. (Possibly MX2 from what I've read?)

Just use the stock til you need to remove and replace. No sense wasting paste if you don't need to!
 
Stupid question about the push pull config. If you plug the H50's power connector into the cpu fan header were do you plug in the second fan for the push pull? You want both fans to run at the same rpm and the speed to be controlled by the motherboard right?
 
Good to know! Once I replace the Q9650/mobo w/ my i7 920 in my watercooled case (cosmos s), I was going to pick up another case for the Q and get an h50 for it (i have one in my q6700 machine also). I will probably do push/pull on it if it helps.
 
Mopower said:
Stupid question about the push pull config. If you plug the H50's power connector into the cpu fan header were do you plug in the second fan for the push pull? You want both fans to run at the same rpm and the speed to be controlled by the motherboard right?
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Most motherboards have more than one fan controller to plug in more fans or I think they have molex adapters for some fans too.
 
also don't forget to set your fans to 100% in the bios (@ least for the plug that goes to the pump, so the pump is running @ full capacity)
 
Mopower said:
Stupid question about the push pull config. If you plug the H50's power connector into the cpu fan header were do you plug in the second fan for the push pull? You want both fans to run at the same rpm and the speed to be controlled by the motherboard right?
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I have the pump hooked into the mainboard but the fans run off of 3/4pin molex. Although my board has I believe 7 fan connections on it.
 
Yeah I had initially assumed they used crappy TIM as I normally do with any cooling unit and removed it off the bat. Had I known it was quality I would’ve kept it. I’m using Arctic MX-3 and it works very well for me.

Corban227 said:
yea push pull does wonders for the h50. dropped my temps atleast 7C
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Not sure I really noticed a difference. This was using two Scythe S-Flex fans which are pretty ideal for pushing air through rads. I had them tag teaming in an exhaust configuration. The noise was bugging me so I removed the pull and now only have a push in place. Pump is plugged into the CPU fan header and Scythe into another fan header both locked at 100%.

i7 920 at 3.8 GHz stock voltage topping out at 68C under Prime 95 large FFTs.
 
I installed it using the regular paste that came with it. Nice temps!! Thanks guys!!

I did notice that using it as an intake gave me better temps than using it as an exhaust.
 
yeah if you look at the [H] thermal paste shootout the thermal paste that is supplied with the H50 is the same as the one kyle uses in all his test setups, too lazy to go looking for the name of it though. its the one that comes in the "tub"
 
EmptyWallet said:
I did notice that using it as an intake gave me better temps than using it as an exhaust.
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Again, for me at least, I saw very little difference. Granted this was only in single fan configurations. I ended up leaving it as an exhaust to keep system airflow balanced.
 
I noticed a few degree decrease from the same. I believe it is because of the design of the forward pressure of the fan is rather greater than the suction ability.
 
hbidad said:
I noticed a few degree decrease from the same. I believe it is because of the design of the forward pressure of the fan is rather greater than the suction ability.
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thats goo point. but shrouds do help a lot in the airflow
 
the.ronin said:
Again, for me at least, I saw very little difference. Granted this was only in single fan configurations. I ended up leaving it as an exhaust to keep system airflow balanced.
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hbidad said:
I noticed a few degree decrease from the same. I believe it is because of the design of the forward pressure of the fan is rather greater than the suction ability.
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I'm using two fans in push/pull, that could be why it affected mine more. 4 degrees difference across the board.
 
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