Now given all that, and I think I have given enough info, can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong.
Now from what I understand, the purpose of thermal paste is not to act as a heat transferring barrier between the CPU and heatsink, it is purely to fill the microscopic gaps in the imperfectly flat CPU and heatsink (please correct me if I am wrong). I made sure the coat was even, and that all the CPU was covered.
I am using an asetek 550lc unit for cooling, prior to wiping the stock paste off the 550 I was getting max temps of 74C under a prime95 blend and thats only after several hours of it running.įor this current thermal paste application I am using Arctic Silver 5 (not really what I wanted but it's all I could find locally) and this is exactly what I did to apply it: put thermal paste on CPU, spread thermal paste with brand new razor to make it thin, put on water block/pump assembly. Okay, so first off I would like to preface this with: I work on computers and upon reading up on thermal paste and proper application I decided that I was doing it wrong, so I am trying to change my ways to the correct way.Īlright now that we have that out of the way, would someone, please, for the love of baby jesus, tell me why my temps (i5 2500k 4.2Ghz 1.2V) go from a beautiful ~30C at idle to upwards of 75C IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS running a prime95 blend. Apparently I utterly suck at it when it comes to my computer.
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