Arctic Silver and warranty

Does anyone know if arctic silver 5 or any heat reducing compound put on the cpu, would void the asus warranty?
thanks
Dan

 

You'll have to break the CPU seal to do it.

On an ensemble, definitely yes.

On a BOAsus/whitebook, contact your reseller to find out what impact doing this would have on their warranty coverage.

 

IT will void an asus warranty as well as Intel cpu warranty. AS5 doesnt help much with centrino chips. you looking at like 2-3 degrees difference.

 

Maybe no change at all.

 

According to the guide Chaz just put out on the front page, it helped him around 3 degrees. But it really isn't worth the cost of voiding your warranty? If you want it to run cooler, undervolt or use a cooling pad.

 

SRD, can you document that applying AS 5 would void the Intel warranty?

Arctic Silver 5 will reduce the temperature on ANY CPU by anywhere from 3 to around 12 degrees Celsius. We have done so many tests on this that we finally quit testing. It does not matter what CPU you are using, they will all exceed 80 degrees Celsius before they shut themselves off (the Pentium M Centrino type processor doesn't shut itself off until around 104 degrees), so to suggest that somehow Pentium M processors can't benefit from a good thermal compound is simply not true. Since Arctic Silver 5 is the best thermal compound on the market it only makes sense to use it.

Arctic Silver 5's use on computer CPUs is only one application for them. Some of their larger applications are in the Defence and Aerospace industries.

 

If you are not getting any change at all, or even minor changes, then maybe you are applying it incorrectly. The most common error is applying too much.

 

I noticed that you offer AS5 as an option over there at powernotebooks.com. I don't think it will void your intel warranty, but your Asus warranty it should. After all, can't you remove the AS5 with some remover solution stuff? Asus tends to be VERY picky when it comes to voiding your warranty...

 

There is a special liquid to remove it. For brand new installation, I don't think we need to apply that, the thermal pad on Asus heat sink has nothing wrong at all, you may only need that if you do more than one time installation and the oringinal one already lost his shape.

 

The only worry you have on an ASUS warranty is with the Ensemble models (the ASUS branded models), not the Built on ASUS models (the PowerPro or Crown branded models). Since they are custom built to begin with, there is no issue there.

 

As I read the original question, it seemed to be about adding AS5 aftermarket (himself) to the cpu after it had been delivered, i.e. what Chaz seemed to have done, and the potential effects of this action on the warranty, I think. Any reseller comments on that issue?

 

Your first post answering his question was dead on. Asus Ensemble...absolutely it will VOID the warranty...Built on ASUS will depend on the reseller's warranty policy.

 

I don't think it will void INTEL's warranty. If it did, Arctic Silver wouldn't be as popular as it is.

 

I actually got that from justin from proportable that it voids intel warranty. intel actual warranty is vague to say the least. it says any installtion that is different that the product instructions it came with will void it. I know in the past i had a AMD warranty that stated something about using other cooling than their stock unit would void it. also i would be amazed if you get a 12 degree difference with a centrino and AS5. Most people run their laptops on dynamic switching and since it runs around 1ghz most the time i dont think you are going to get the same benifit from as5 because the cpu isnt being pushed as much to its limit than say a desktop computer. I know when i used AS5 with a centrino in the past there really wasnt much difference at all if any. I guess different laptop models can give different results.

 

True about the Intel warranty. AMD's is kinda vague also. If you buy a retail CPU and doesn't use the retail HSF, warranty is void.

 

With light use you can expect 3-6 degrees cooler with AS 5. However when you push it hard you should get 10-12 degrees. The reason we give a range is that the amount of cooling will of course depend on how hard you are pushing it.

I never intended to suggest that with light use you should expect 10-12 degress. If anyone took it that way I apologize.

Here is a good read about how AS 5 resolved a 360 freezing problem: http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/6/16/4353