• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Thermal Pad

C

contaminant

Limp Gawd
Joined
Nov 29, 2005
Messages
336
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.
 
Arctic Cooling's thermal pads are actually very good. Reviews have shown that it performs almost on-par with AS5. I would use it.
 
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?
 
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top