Arctic Silver 5 experiment.

I finally did it. I had to disasemble the entire unit to figure out how to pop of the heat sink. It turns out that the thermal material used is a bit sticky, so all that it needed was a bit of yanking

From just a few minutes running I have to say that it did work, there is around 2-3 degrees improvement. And knowing that arctic silver works best after it has been applied for at least a day (pc running), so I can expect further improvement.

BTW I snapped some pictures on the way, might post some later.

But when I finished and opened the LCD I realized that it was loose. I forgot to tighten the screws!!! wooops ... I have the habit of leaving tightening the screws till the end, and now I am wondering if there are more loose screws in there!

 

what the hell is arctic silver

 

Arctic Silver 5 is a thermal compound - it helps reduce heat on the CPU. It's 99.9% pure silver, which is a great conductor of heat.

Please refrain from the use of bad language.

 

Hah, i'm just waiting for them to make some artic diamond paste or something. That would kick ass, except the fact that i might burn.

 

It's not the richer the metal the better. + diamond isn't even a metal

BTW I used AC5 for the CPU, GPU, and north bridge ... the whole package

 

Qwester,

So does the fan run less now? Look forward to your pics to see how it is done. Thanks.

 

No the fan is still always on, this is a P4 after all. The fan will turn off only if the CPU temp drops to the low 40s, which happened with me only once on a freezing cold winter day when I was using my laptop outdoors.

But the temperatures are now 2-3 degrees less. So now my CPU temperature is 45-46, it used to be around 48

 

So is there any advantage to the 2-3 degrees difference? I, also have a N6010 with a 4200rpm drive. I may upgrade that to a 5400 or 7200rpm drive. Will this contribute a significant amount of heat to the computer? I ask because I know a higher rpm drive produces more heat but what you've been doing is reducing heat within the CPU, GPU, etc.

BTW, is the additional heat produced worth getting a 7200 instead of a 5400? :fujitsu:

 

Blah, that was a joke and kind of not a joke. Diamond is 10 times as good a thermal conductor as the next best thing.

So did you have to scrape away the old thermal material before you apply the artic silver?

 

Heat in the enemy for all laptops. And many laptops have a thermad pad instead of a direct contact with the heatsink (like a desktop).

The Arctic Silver compound helps transfer heat better than ordinary white compound.

If I was to do it though, I would use Arctic Silver Ceramique- it is non conductuctive and transfers heat within 1C of AS5.

Been using it on my overclocked Athlon XP mobile processors (in desktop rigs) for years- and it makes a big difference.

Here is a link to the Arctic Silver web site-

http://www.arcticsilver.com/

 

Diamond is a better heat conductor. The idea of "Arctic Diamond" sounds cool.

@qwester, which notebook/processor did you treat with AS5 to have 2-3 degrees improvement? Congratulations! I wish I had my warranty finished to do the same.

 

I am actually still under warranty

the processor is the one on my fujitsu, a P4-M 538 (3.2GHz). I think I didn't have such a huge gain, or rather drop in temp because there was some silver material there, but it wasn't AS5 because it was a bit more sticky.