The thermal paste was a Dynex brand silver compound I bought at Best Buy on my AMD FX-8350 that was applied four years ago. Not dry or cracked as I expected for such a hot CPU that was never overclocked. Still somewhat paste like to the touch and with no CPU heat issues before I removed it too...
So my 2500k has been running stock most of it's life on a stock cooler. It would idle at around 60c and under load it used to not go much over 80c. Then the other day I was checking temps, and it will go to 99c when playing games.
I pulled off the heatsink and changed out the thermal grease to...
It's time for me to re-apply the thermal paste to my CPU. I have a syringe of Arctic Silver 5 that is some years old. Will it still be good? The syringe is capped and inside a plastic bag.
I recently was giving a USED Corsair H100i V2 Water Cooler.
i usually use whatever thermal paste that is pre applied but this cooler has been completely cleaned,
so im not sure what kind of paste i should purchase.
I have a I-5 4590 and live close to frys electronics and also have amazon...
Ok, so I finally got one of these after lusting for one for many years, a Dell Precision M6700 (16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-3740QM quad, Nvidia Quadro K4000M based on the GTX 670m iirc coupled with the Premier Color IPS panel display too) and I'm looking to cool this puppy down. Now, having said...