Arctic Coolin...Which One?!

[ChristopherP]

Cermamique is just as good at half the price.

It's 0.5 degrees cooler after application
an
It's 0.5 degrees warmer after setting in

not bad for a couple of quid!

 

[Kye]

whats the worse thing that can happen if i put on too much?

 

[floppybootstomp]

whats the worse thing that can happen if i put on too much?

I'm really not sure about the ceramique stuff, I don't think it has any electrically conductive qualities but with the Arctic Silver 5, that has capacitive qualities, meaning that if a significant amount of the stuff bridged enough pins of the main CPU, it could cause effective short circuits and ruin the chip.

Other than that, too much not only makes a mess but will not do an effective job of aiding heat transfer. In fact, too much will hinder heat transfer.

And the stuff's expensive as well, so it's a waste

 

[Kye]

ive read loads of reviews and guides.

now, taking the old heatsink/fan seems it might be a problem. i would be ok with this otherwise, but i have only had this graphics card for 2 days now, i dont want too hurt it due too me doing somthing wrong. people seem too make out is as easy as putting a stick of ram on the mobo.

ill worry about what i use too clean it off. or, if i have enough of the stuff on the cloth too take it off etc...
im buying the artic cooling rev.4 anyway. along with the Arctic Ceramique Thermal Compound and also Akasa TIM-clean CPU & Heatsink Cleaner. although the cleaner says "Citrus based solvent that removes thermal pads and Silver based thermal grease."

maybe i can dedicate a day too doing all of this so very slowly.

 

[floppybootstomp]

maybe i can dedicate a day too doing all of this so very slowly.

Good idea. Just take it nice and easy. I know people will say it's easy but when you've never done it before and you're messin' with something expensive, well, I feel your fear

If you use too much cleaner and it doesn't all evaporate in a couple of minutes, use cotton buds to clean it off.

Good luck and remember:

a) Not too much thermal compound, but make sure all surface of chip is covered.
b) Plug the fan connector into the card before securing the cooler.
c) Don't overtighten the two retaining bolts.

 

[muckshifter]

... and once your finnished with cooling the graphics card, spare a thought for the Southbridge.

... and spare a thought for the back of the Northbridge, even with a cooler fitted.

Oh, and don't forget the poor old "moffets", they could do with a breath of fresh air.

 

[Kye]

pretty pictures...i can kinda make them out though! i cant have that heat though on the mobo.
some may say a man on a mission? maybe. but im going too have the coolest PC, with the best i can do with air! also, once i made sure i have all the right stuff for the thermal paste stuff, ill check it by everyone here then practice on the MMX440 gpu core. once i done that, artic coolin rev.4 here i come

 

[JonnySpam]

Is there a noticeable improvement with the rev.4 cooler when compared to the rev.3 artic cooler. From a standard speed of 378/338 (core/mem) the rev.3 cooler got me upto 462/368. Thats with some zalman ramsinks as well. Sorry this is on a ati radeon 9800 pro which still cuts the mustard in my opinion with todays games. 42fps on doom 3 oh high graphics settings always makes me smile, saying that a friend said that a gig of ram helps things nicely.

The rev.4 cooler has a copper plate on it which in theory will help cool the core even more and possibly help achieve higher clock speeds, can anyone out there tell me if the rev.4 is noticeably better.

Thanks to christopherpostill aswell, the northbridge cooler fan started playing up on my abit kv7, so i bought a zalman chipset cooler, and things couldn't be better.