Just repasted. There's a difference but not much.

So I just did a repaste of my GPU and CPU with arctic silver 5. I'm also not sure if i did it right for the gpu. What i did was i put a small blob in the middle and just put the heatsink on top of it, but while I was doing that the heatsink slid a bit so I dunno if it messed up the coverage or anything.

Anyway before my temps during gaming could hit up to 98-100+ c max. I just did a 15 minute run of furmark after the repaste and the max it hit was 89c on pretty much 100% load the entire time. Is that good or should I expect more of a decrease? Also will the temps get lower over time (does the paste need time to settle in?).

 

How long has it been since you cleaned up the heatsinks with canned air as well? A 10C drop isn't bad by the way, not everyone managed to get their temps as low as others.

 

I cleaned up the heatsinks and dust while I repasted. So they are clean ish. I just cant get to the fan and it looks like the fan has dust on it, not sure how to get it off?

Also it seems my temps are actually higher than the benchmark in gaming. I'm getting up to 92c now. It doesn't seem like a huge change...

Edit: Okay my temps are still hitting almost 100c while gaming. I'm really confused now...

How much does the thermal pad on the side of the fan help? Maybe i didn't put that on right.

 

In the recent versions of furmark the core (tss0) temperature sensor is reported, and the tss1 is often 10 degrees or so higher. With most recent bios and vbios 78c for furmark is pretty typical as a max, as the fan trips onto high at that point, then medium below. Idle temperatures are more influenced with ambient temperatures, Furmark is more consistent.

I did a repaste with OCZ Freeze about 5 months ago and got a decent drop while gaming and in furmark. Just checked furmark again and still get a max of 78c core/87c memory (tss0 and tss1 respectively). So the performance of the paste doesn't seem to have degraded (ICD7 and OCZfreeze both last pretty well).

I wouldn't expect your paste to improve much over time, last time I used a silver based paste it pretty much stayed the same, maybe dropped 1-2c over a couple of days.

As has been said, it is better before having a 10c drop, but I think you could have got a 20c drop (down to 78c on furmark) if the pasting had gone better. Perhaps buy some ICD paste and apply that according to numerous guides.. much easier taking the computer apart after the first stressful time!

 

Nuff said.