Thermal Pad

[contaminant]

Just wondering, how bad is the thermal pad that comes pre-applied on heatsinks compared to AS5. Building a system for a friend, he won't be OCing much if at all and wanted to know if it was even worth my time. It's an Freezer 64 Pro.

 

[_Korruption_]

Arctic Cooling's thermal pads are actually very good. Reviews have shown that it performs almost on-par with AS5. I would use it.

 

[contaminant]

Alright, I've decide to anyway. Thanks for the input. What I would like to know now though, is how would I go about preventing overflow? When I apply paste myself, I know just how much to use, but with the thermal pad, I'm assumiing it will expand and run over the edge of the processor. And how would I clean it up if it does?

 

[_Korruption_]

There will be overflow, but it shouldn't be too bad. The compound itself isn't conductive or capacitive, so there's no worry there.