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    Arctic Silver 5

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by theincubus, Apr 10, 2008.

  1. theincubus

    theincubus Notebook Consultant

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    Does the m15x come with arctic silver 5? Possible solution to overheating issues?
     
    theincubus, Apr 10, 2008
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    new thread for this? :D
     
    ioaniro, Apr 10, 2008
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  3. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    no I heard it from some posts a while ago, AW is using some cheap paste for m15x. arctic silver 5 is not the best paste btw, not even top 5.
     
    Nirvana, Apr 10, 2008
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  4. kobe

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    You can call TS and ask them to send you some. It's free under warranty.
     
    kobe, Apr 10, 2008
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    They use blue thermal pad ....it sucks.
    Artic 5 is very good(6-7 C° less for me atm) and im sure it's in top 5....
     
    guigz, Apr 10, 2008
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    Alufoliengriller, Apr 10, 2008
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  7. Nirvana

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    |crappy thermal interface|
    Tital Nano Blue 59
    Panasonic 58.5
    KPT-8 (reference) 56.6

    |decent thermal interface|
    Data Cooler 57
    Titan TTG S-104 , S-103 56.7
    Pasta Siliconowa 56.6
    Zalman CSL 850 56.5
    Noctua 56.5
    Stars Silver 56.5
    Stars 700/Aero 700 56
    GeIL GL-TCP1b 55.6
    Thermopox 55.6
    КПТ-8(BeO) 55.5
    Sil more 55.5
    Shin-Etsu(white) 55.5
    W.P. 55.5
    STARS (white, soft pack) 55.5
    AKT-842 55
    Fanner 420 55
    Koolance 55

    |good thermal interface|
    Arctic Alumina 55.5
    Arctic Silver-3 54.6
    AOS 54.5
    DC-340 54.5
    Asetek 54.5
    Arctic Silver-5 53.5
    Arctic Ceramique 53.5

    |great thermal interface|
    Apus TMG 301 52.5
    Gigabyte 52.5
    Titan Nano Grease TTG-G30010 52.5
    GFC-M1 D90T8-010 52.5
    Shin-Etsu MicroSi G-751 52

    |outstanding thermal interface|
    Arctic Cooling MX-1 51.5
    Shin-Etsu MicroSi MPU-3.7 50.5
    Coollaboratory Liquid Pro 50

    credit to -cyclone- and Ver-Wolf as authors of the test

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135359
     
    Nirvana, Apr 10, 2008
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  8. theincubus

    theincubus Notebook Consultant

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    Could alienware ever offer a different thermal interface for a greater cost?
     
    theincubus, Apr 10, 2008
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  9. ioaniro

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    From what was posted already replacing your thermal paste voids your warranty. Also, there have been tests in the begining of the overheating/downclocking issue with AS5 and if I remember well it made it worst.
     
    ioaniro, Apr 10, 2008
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    Give them a call and let them know. I was able to apply AS5 without voiding my warranty on my m5550. I'm not kidding.
     
    kobe, Apr 10, 2008
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    Hey guys, this was already discussed. According to alienware, AS5 actually hinders the cooling of the system. If you have applied AS5 on the system, they will not void your warranty but they recommend that you change back to their cooling solution.

    AS5 isn't always the best, there was a test done that shows this.
     
    Stone825, Apr 10, 2008
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  12. exiled

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    before the bios released i remember AW one of them said that they tested AS5 and there was no change.
     
    exiled, Apr 10, 2008
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    Wow. AS5 really sucks then. It takes a while for it to "burn in" I read the review posted earlier. Even the review man didn't personally recommend it.
     
    kobe, Apr 10, 2008
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    Well it depends on the application. On the M9750, AS5 actually helps a lot to cool down everything. Mind you, AW could just be saying to use their cooling solution since they don't want to take risks if computers start overheating.

    In my opinion AS5 is excellent 95% of the time, with a few quirky occurrences where the manufactures cooling solution actually works better. However, I do not think AW's cooling solution is better as for the M5500, M5550, M9700, and the M9750 AS5 always helped cool them down a few degrees.
     
    Stone825, Apr 10, 2008
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