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    technician dident put on AS5

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by scottbenntt, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. scottbenntt

    scottbenntt Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all

    sorry i dident know where to put this

    Just had my heat sink and mobo replaced but the dell tech dident apply any thermal cooling compound between GPU or CPU and the heat sink.

    Temp before new stuff
    GPU- 90-100
    Cpu- 90+

    Know
    GPU- 70-80
    CPU- 60 or so

    should i put AC5 on would it help cool ever better?
     
    scottbenntt, Nov 26, 2008
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    How are your gaming temps? Also, had you applied AC5 before with the 'before new stuff' temps?
     
    namaiki, Nov 26, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    AS5 will do nothing if the cpu is already completely flat with the heatsink. It is almost impossible for the cpu and heatsink to fit together perfectly, so that is why thermal compound is needed. It fills in the small pores between the cpu and the heatsink. AS5 is a silver grease which is more conductive than air. So when used properly the paste fills the void where the air once was conducting heat away from the cpu and gpu better.
    You should probably take teh system apart and put a thin layer of paste on, because for sure your system temperatures are going to be higher without it.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Nov 26, 2008
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  4. scottbenntt

    scottbenntt Notebook Consultant

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    HI :)

    yer those are temps i just got from crisis demo before and after before i just had stock dell. then i got a new one :) and my temps where better but the tech dident apply Ac5 or anything between the two befor i think it did
     
    scottbenntt, Nov 26, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Your temps look fine, you dont need AS5.
     
    flipfire, Nov 27, 2008
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