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vincer20

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is there any replacment thermal pad's for the memory and gpu that i could buy or can i use as5?
 
AS5 won't hold the heat sinks in place, they'll drop off after warming up. Instead if the thermal compound must hold the items in place you'll want their ceramique silver enhanced thermal "glue". Once it's on, it's not comming off.
 
HighTest said:
AS5 won't hold the heat sinks in place, they'll drop off after warming up. Instead if the thermal compound must hold the items in place you'll want their ceramique silver enhanced thermal "glue". Once it's on, it's not comming off.
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I recommend using the pads when possible. Much less hassle and you would probably only gain 2-3 degrees with AS.

If you do go with Ceramique, I'd recommend mixing it with AS5 so that it's not 100% permanent, just "mostly" permanent. There's a dead Crystal Orb on my old 8500 that I would love to get off, but I can't. So, my 8500 can't be used in 3d mode since the fan is dead.
 
jebo_4jc said:
I recommend using the pads when possible. Much less hassle and you would probably only gain 2-3 degrees with AS.
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I would dig up the review, but I can't find it. It's the [H]'s review on frag tape vs AS.

AS won buy a huge margin (think 10+ C). Granted, this was on the CPU.
 
Talonz said:
I would dig up the review, but I can't find it. It's the [H]'s review on frag tape vs AS.

AS won buy a huge margin (think 10+ C). Granted, this was on the CPU.
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I'm not sure what frag tape is, but I'm thinking of a review I saw of a AC Silencer, which they installed twice, once with AS and once with the tape, and the difference was minimal.
 
I have the Accelero X1 and use AS5 on my gpu (56c max after hours of gaming now), 39c idle. It's just not a good idea for the ramchips.
 
vincer20 said:
will the as5 work on the gpu
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Oh yes! I use AS5 on my GPU to cover my ASS. :D In fact I use it for anything that has pins or other mounting hardware to hold on the heatsink. It just doesn't have any bonding qualities if it's being used as the material to hold the HS on, that's where Ceramique comes in, but as stated above that's permanent without doing somekinda mixture.

When affixing my Zalman VF-900cu, I found that the AS5 provided an additional decrease in temps over just the white silcone compound included with the HSF.
 
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