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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on January 03, 2004, 05:15:12 pm

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Liberator on January 03, 2004, 05:15:12 pm

Okey Dokey, I've got the memory(256mb Kingston PC2700) and I've got the processor(Athlon XP 1800 OEM) and the motherboard will be here in a few days(MSI 745 Ultra).

My question is this, given that I will never OC the chip, what kind of cooling assembly do you guys recomend and given that this is the first time I've ever done a processor assembly, do you recommend thermal paste or thermal pads.  If paste which one and if pads which one?

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Darkage on January 03, 2004, 05:20:05 pm

I like to use paste but thats my personel preference.

And i put on a big ass cooler on it. A better one then required for the cpu.

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: mikhael on January 03, 2004, 05:50:07 pm

Paste.

If you're cheap like me, you can use standard dialectric grease. It seems to work better even than the "arctic silver" paste and is about 1/10th the price.

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Darkage on January 03, 2004, 06:10:33 pm

the artic silver like paste worked better then the dialectric grease for me.

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Liberator on January 03, 2004, 06:52:01 pm

After having read up on them I'm leaning toward a thermal pad of some kind.  What kind of HSF though?

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Zeronet on January 03, 2004, 08:01:32 pm

Thermal pad.

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: magatsu1 on January 04, 2004, 09:47:09 am

how about watercooling ?:drevil:

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Ashrak on January 04, 2004, 10:30:17 am

Quote

Originally posted by magatsu1
how about watercooling ?:drevil:

yeah what about a watercooling rig?

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Darkage on January 04, 2004, 11:25:20 am

If you use properly setup fans then water cooling aint needed.

Title: Pads or Paste?
Post by: Liberator on January 04, 2004, 01:35:34 pm

Watercooling is out due to budget considerations.  My local supplier has a Volcano 8 that I'm looking at, I just hope they've got a couple of extra thermal pads they can part with.