Thermal paste on an i5

Hi there,

Is there any benefit of puttin some artic silver 5 high density paste onto an i5? Will it reduce the heat any ... or is it really only suited to the i7 application.

Cheers
Chumby

 

I recently opted for the thermal compound on both my CPU/GPU b/c I read it reduces the temp by 10c, so I'd highly recommended it

 

Adding a good thermal paste to any CPU always helps.

 

10c? wow thats nice. i will try soon with as5

 

I dont know exactly but as5 has curing time of 200Hours, where as ppl with MX3 have reported better temps and MX3 has no curing time.
So there is an alternative to as5, just to let ppl know

 

I recommend OCZ Freeze. It exceeds the MX-2 in terms of performance but the cost is significantly lower than the premium products. It's like $3 for a 3 gram tube. Really cheap stuff and it works like a champ.

Still, here's my take on thermal paste: if you think you're gonna see significantly better results if you go straight for the expensive premium brands, you're fooling yourself. MSI uses really good thermal paste already. The only ones who really benefit from high-performance pastes are the overclockers.

Changing the paste does next to nothing if the heatsink sucks. Enthusiasts spend their cash in all the wrong places.

 

Totally agree.

When I have decided to buy myself a new laptop, then maybe I'll rip off the back cover off mine and place it on a dry ice or maybe LN2, that wont be waste, would it?

 

Thanks guys....

So does the heatsink on the gx640 suck ... or is it pk... CPU/GPU

Cheers
chumby

 

That's an interesting topic: I read in other parts of the forum, that MSI put too much paste on the GPU part and that thus the heathsink/heat pipe don't touch the chip close enough to allow a good cooling of the GPU chip... (as you can tell I don't know much about all this )

Any advise here? My point is that the temp run high on my laptop and if I could just reduce them a bit I would feel more comfortable (afraid of damaging my GPU through too high temps)... A furmark test gave me temps of 106° before I freaked out and decided to stop it (after 7 or so minutes)!

 

Considering the kind of heat it has to dissipate, I'd say it does a pretty good job. I don't think there's a heat problem with the laptop, people are just too busy OCD'ing over numbers (temps, clocks, voltage, etc.) when they could be playing games instead.

The GX640 does heat up, but it doesn't overheat. Not even close.