Arctic Silver 5

Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and Vantech
Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz without kicking out
of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU maxxes out at 42 at idle
and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of the internal CPU diode is in the
70's under load and low 60's at idle. I mounted the Vantec with the supplied
white thermal grease, and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic
Silver 5 make that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it do
you use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the cleaned
off chip to a small glop.

Thanks

no not much a differrence at all....u might have put too much gloop on...use
the directions found on the arctic website (google it)....u need only put a
tiny bit on the diode and spread it around so it covers the whole diode with
a really thin layer....then make sure you mounted the hsf right...clean off
cpu with alcohol apply same grease and reseat hsf
"Augustus" wrote in message
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Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and Vantech
Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz without kicking
out
of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU maxxes out at 42 at idle
and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of the internal CPU diode is in the
70's under load and low 60's at idle. I mounted the Vantec with the
supplied
white thermal grease, and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic
Silver 5 make that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it
do
you use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the
cleaned
off chip to a small glop.

Thanks

Robert Jackson Marley wrote:
no not much a differrence at all....u might have put too much gloop
on...use the directions found on the arctic website (google it)....u
need only put a tiny bit on the diode and spread it around so it
covers the whole diode with a really thin layer....then make sure you
mounted the hsf right...clean off cpu with alcohol apply same grease
and reseat hsf

Instead of "diode", you mean the CPU *die*, right?


"Augustus" wrote in message
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Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and
Vantech Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz
without kicking out of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU
maxxes out at 42 at idle and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of
the internal CPU diode is in the 70's under load and low 60's at
idle. I mounted the Vantec with the supplied white thermal grease,
and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic Silver 5 make
that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it do you
use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the
cleaned off chip to a small glop.

Thanks

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 05:39:11 GMT, "Augustus"
wrote::

Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and Vantech
Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz without kicking out
of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU maxxes out at 42 at idle
and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of the internal CPU diode is in the
70's under load and low 60's at idle. I mounted the Vantec with the supplied
white thermal grease, and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic
Silver 5 make that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it do
you use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the cleaned
off chip to a small glop.

Thanks


I don't think the choice of HS compound, even any of the AS
formulations will give you the temperature drop you're looking for.
Assuming for the momen that there are no malfunctions in the existing
cooling solution, you may need to look at more agressive cooling
options.


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Thanks,
MCheu

"Augustus" wrote in message
news:3ud2c.140115$Hy3.113376@edtnps89...
Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and Vantech
Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz without kicking
out
of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU maxxes out at 42 at idle
and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of the internal CPU diode is in the
70's under load and low 60's at idle. I mounted the Vantec with the
supplied
white thermal grease, and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic
Silver 5 make that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it
do
you use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the
cleaned
off chip to a small glop.

For what it's worth, I changed from the supplied thermal grease that came
with my Speeze WhisperJet II cooler to AS5, and have seen little impact as
far as I can tell. I'm still hitting 54-56 with a modest load (Barton 2800)
in an old style Antec KS-180 case (with the exhaust fans ABOVE the power
supply, not near the CPU) in the beginning of March in NYC.

So, I decided instead to change cases, to an Antec 3700 with a 120mm fan
adjacent to the CPU area, and I expect that it will provide much more
relief. I also have a Vantec designed CPU cooler TR2-M2 showing up, with a
much higher speed fan, which I may or may not install depending on how much
difference the new case makes. My sense is that the AS5 was, at best, a
modest improvement of the supplied thermal grease.

Matt C

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 05:39:11 GMT, "Augustus"
wrote:

Running a Soltek SL-75FRN2 board with a Barton 2500, DDR3200 and Vantech
Aeroflow. I'm having heat issues. Won't go past 2035Mhz without kicking out
of 3DMark 2001. Although the diode under the CPU maxxes out at 42 at idle
and 49-50 under load, the BIOS readout of the internal CPU diode is in the
70's under load and low 60's at idle. I mounted the Vantec with the supplied
white thermal grease, and used a fair glop of it. Will using the Arctic
Silver 5 make that much of a difference in heat transfer? How much of it do
you use? I've read different things...from a very light smear on the cleaned
off chip to a small glop.

Thanks

sounds like a case airflow issue. what kind of case, fan, and wiring
setup are you running (also what psu)