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I'm using AS-5 on a 2.8 Prescott with a XP-120 heat sink.

Now the trouble is that my temps are slowly going up. When I first applied
the paste my temps were high 30s to high 40s between idle and load. Now my
temps are mid 40s idle and mid 50s load. I thought that the temps were
meant to go down as AS-5 settled? I've re done the cpu and heatsink a
couple of times now and each time the temps rise within a week.

Is there such a thing as a bad batch of AS-5? Or what the hell else is
happening to it?

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Alex Devlin

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have to offer. You CAN'T PARK HERE."

 

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"Alex Devlin" <Alex@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> I'm using AS-5 on a 2.8 Prescott with a XP-120 heat sink.
>
> Now the trouble is that my temps are slowly going up. When I first applied
> the paste my temps were high 30s to high 40s between idle and load. Now my
> temps are mid 40s idle and mid 50s load. I thought that the temps were
> meant to go down as AS-5 settled? I've re done the cpu and heatsink a
> couple of times now and each time the temps rise within a week.
>
> Is there such a thing as a bad batch of AS-5? Or what the hell else is
> happening to it?
>
> --
> Alex Devlin
>
> "I don't care who you want to speak to, or how far you came, or what you
> have to offer. You CAN'T PARK HERE."

Try some generic thermal compound from your local Radio Shack or whatever
you have in your area and see if there is a difference. Make sure not to
"over-apply" the stuff.

Ed

 

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How much is too much?


"Ed Medlin" <edmedlin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Alex Devlin" <Alex@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:BOYwd.7185$jn.3742@lakeread06...
> > I'm using AS-5 on a 2.8 Prescott with a XP-120 heat sink.
> >
> > Now the trouble is that my temps are slowly going up. When I first
applied
> > the paste my temps were high 30s to high 40s between idle and load. Now
my
> > temps are mid 40s idle and mid 50s load. I thought that the temps were
> > meant to go down as AS-5 settled? I've re done the cpu and heatsink a
> > couple of times now and each time the temps rise within a week.
> >
> > Is there such a thing as a bad batch of AS-5? Or what the hell else is
> > happening to it?
> >
> > --
> > Alex Devlin
> >
> > "I don't care who you want to speak to, or how far you came, or what you
> > have to offer. You CAN'T PARK HERE."
>
> Try some generic thermal compound from your local Radio Shack or whatever
> you have in your area and see if there is a difference. Make sure not to
> "over-apply" the stuff.
>
> Ed
>
>

 

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Anything more than the size of a BB or grain of rice. It spreads very well
under pressure/heat.


"AFN" <newsDELETETHECAPSgroupaccount@DELETETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How much is too much?
>
>

 

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"AFN" <newsDELETETHECAPSgroupaccount@DELETETHISyahoo.com> ¦b¶l¥ó
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> How much is too much?
>

A nice layer should be thinner or equal to 1 sheets of 90 gsm paper (photo
copy paper), the main job of the thermal compound isn't to conduct heat in a
blob. If it were better than copper we'd have the whole heatsink made of
AS5.

The job of TC is to fill the microscopic gaps of imperfection in heatsink
and processors' heat spreader.