Arctic Silver 5

SE1Z · Post by **SE1Z** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:09 pm

Question...

I applied this to my shiny new (for me) P4 3.8 this morning.

It idles at ~37 degrees and peaks at 59 under load.

I understand AS5 will get better after around 200hrs or so, but are these good baseline figures to start off with, or should I try applying it again?
bearing in mind the prescott cpus run hot at the best of times.... im using an XP-120 HS with a panaflow 120mm fan.

Post by **Shonky** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:22 pm

Those temps seem pretty reasonable to me for the heatsink in use.

SE1Z · Post by **SE1Z** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:27 pm

cheers shonky

any idea how much, if any, the temps will improve after the magic ~200hrs?

Post by **Shonky** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:48 pm

Some people say up to 5 degrees, but the best I've seen is 1-2 degrees after things have settled, if anything at all. It will have probably seated properly within 24 hours on your system, since the hotter the CPU the quicker AS5 settles.

Pinger$ · Post by **Pinger$** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:22 pm

Yeah, I love it.
On a stock CPU HSF P4C 3GHz, saw instant 5 degree improvement.

Bought a zalman vf900cu vga cooler yesterday for my x800 pro modded to XT PE... applied AS5 and temps combined with cooler and more overclock resulted in 25 degrees less heat from the chip. Couldn't believe how much of an improvement I got for under $40.

SE1Z · Post by **SE1Z** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:31 am

I had the same card (well, a real XTpe) and the same fan.... I saw the same temp decreases - with el-cheapo heatsink paste... I think its more the vga cooler

having said that tho....
I applied AS5 to my cpu, the temp has dropped roughly 2 degrees in the last 2 days... hope it keeps getting better!
so yeh, it is good stuff...

I think I may have just contradicted myself....