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frag85

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repasted my p4 2.4c that had a ceramique compound w/ the newish arctic silver 5, and it runs about 5 C warmer now at idle. has anyone else seen this? i thought the new arcric silver 5 was much better, i have re-pasted it 3x w/ the silver 5 and no changes so at this point i know its not b/c of application error.
 
You do remove all traces of any older pads/paste/grease from the the heatsink and heatspreader right?

You need a very very thin layer to just obscure the color of the heatspreader's surface.

Also, AS takes upwards of 200 hours before it reaches full effectiveness.
 
When you say ceramique are you referring to just some white thermal paste, or actual AS ceramique paste? Testing shows that AS ceramique is actually better than AS5 paste.

http://www.overclockers.com/articles885/

"On using this, when applying it to the CPU core, it closely resembles visually the cheap "white goop" compound widely available commercially, but is somewhat "thicker" in viscosity.

However, it works far, far better than that "white goop" could ever dream of. I noted a reduction even further in my CPU temp with this compound over the AS-5. Arctic Silver could well have jumped on the "XP" (eXtreme Performance) bandwagon when naming this product, because that is precisely the results I've gotten with it. I'm very impressed with this product."
 
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