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    Thermal paste for Processor Intel X9000

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by wdmalik, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. wdmalik

    wdmalik Notebook Consultant

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    Can anyone please specify a suitable thermal paste for CPU.

    My processor is Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 @2.80 GHz (Dual processor).

    Thanks
     
    wdmalik, Sep 16, 2010
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  2. LookAlien

    LookAlien Notebook Enthusiast

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    I use silver arctic 5 paste on everything, its good stuff!
     
    LookAlien, Sep 16, 2010
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  3. DHC

    DHC Notebook Evangelist

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    OCZ Freeze!
     
    DHC, Sep 17, 2010
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  4. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    I use ANtec Formula 5, which dropped my CPU temp by 6C. Just about any after-market, name brand paste will be better than stock paste.
     
    Nick, Sep 17, 2010
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  5. wdmalik

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    I forgot to mention that highest temperature that I recorded was 103C, PC shuts down automatically, i will like to keep it around 90C
     
    wdmalik, Sep 17, 2010
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    My personal new preference is ICD7 i've found it works better than AS5 ;)
     
    simonmpoulton, Sep 17, 2010
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  7. LookAlien

    LookAlien Notebook Enthusiast

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    You must be overclocking it, unless you put the cooler or paste on badly, 103 is way too hot for a cpu, it will heat every thing else up inside the PC aswell, Ive an X9100 and only hits 80c after heavy gaming.
     
    LookAlien, Sep 18, 2010
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  8. wdmalik

    wdmalik Notebook Consultant

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    Naah, no over-clocking, get this temp which playing farmville on facebook,

    Honestly, ...
     
    wdmalik, Sep 18, 2010
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  9. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    then you have a bad past job a good cleaning and any paste even the cheapest one would do a better job

    all of the above stated paste do a ggreat job provided they are aplid properly
     
    granyte, Sep 21, 2010
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  10. DHC

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    I tried some other paste on my new desktop cpu and i am extremely happy about it:

    Noctua NT-H1

    I suggest this above OCZ Freeze any day now :).
     
    DHC, Sep 21, 2010
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  11. wdmalik

    wdmalik Notebook Consultant

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    I would have done it a long time ago, but I am stuck due to this
     
    wdmalik, Sep 22, 2010
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  12. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    the dremel gave nothing?
     
    granyte, Sep 22, 2010
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    wdmalik Notebook Consultant

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    Actually dremel is not available in my region, ordering from USA/UK etc is way too expansive for me, still looking for other option ...
    Same goes for the pastes :(
     
    wdmalik, Sep 24, 2010
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    Received ICD7 this morning, will apply //

    lets hope things improve for me :)
     
    wdmalik, Oct 11, 2010
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