I7 8700 stock cooler preapplied thermal paste

[AAGG02]

Hello,
My i7 8700 is on his way and i am wondering If preapplied thermal paste is good to use. I have a tube of arctic silver 5 which i can use to replace the stock one but is worth replacing it?

Thank you.

 

[Gam3r01]

Its probably not worth doing considering the cure time associated with the AS5.
I would just slap the stock cooler on as is.

 

[IInuyasha74]

If it is the same paste Intel used on Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake, then it is alright. Article Silver 5 would be better though. It is probably the same paste. I'd go ahead and change it. Either that, or use the stock paste, boot, test it out. Then swap for AS5 and compare the results to see how much AS5 helped other the stock paste. That's just for fun though.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello,
My i7 8700 is on his way and i am wondering If preapplied thermal paste is good to use. I have a tube of arctic silver 5 which i can use to replace the stock one but is worth replacing it?

Thank you.

I'd leave it as is.
If it were 'bad', we would have seen reports about it.

 

[geofelt]

The supplied paste works.
I would use it.
This might help:
----------------how to mount the stock Intel cooler--------------

The stock Intel cooler can be tricky to install.
A poor installation will result in higher cpu temperatures.
If properly mounted, you should expect temperatures at idle to be 10-15c. over ambient.

To mount the Intel stock cooler properly, place the motherboard on top of the foam or cardboard backing that was packed with the motherboard.
The stock cooler will come with paste pre applied, it looks like three grey strips.
The 4 push pins should come in the proper position for installation, that is with the pins rotated in the opposite direction of the arrow,(clockwise)
and pulled up as far as they can go.
Take the time to play with the pushpin mechanism until you know how they work.

Orient the 4 pins so that they are exactly over the motherboard holes.
If one is out of place, you will damage the pins which are delicate.
Push down on a DIAGONAL pair of pins at the same time. Then the other pair.

When you push down on the top black pins, it expands the white plastic pins to fix the cooler in place.

If you do them one at a time, you will not get the cooler on straight.
Lastly, look at the back of the motherboard to verify that all 4 pins are equally through the motherboard, and that the cooler is on firmly.
This last step must be done, which is why the motherboard should be out of the case to do the job. Or you need a case with a opening that lets you see the pins.
It is possible to mount the cooler with the motherboard mounted in the case, but you can then never be certain that the push pins are inserted properly
unless you can verify that the pins are through the motherboard and locked.

If you should need to remove the cooler, turn the pins counter clockwise to unlock them.
You will need to clean off the old paste and reapply new if you ever take the cooler off.
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[AAGG02]

A silly question. The thermal paste lines how should be oriented ? Vertical or Horizontal ?

 

[geofelt]

A silly question. The thermal paste lines how should be oriented ? Vertical or Horizontal ?

It does not matter; it will spread out under heat and pressure.
I orient the cooler to minimize the travel of the cpu fan power lead.

 

[AAGG02]

Ok. I did mounted everything and i get 30C at idle. But what worries me is that in Battlefield 1 i get 80C.

 

[AAGG02]

It reach 90c but most of the time is 80-85c.

 

[geofelt]

Ok. I did mounted everything and i get 30C at idle. But what worries me is that in Battlefield 1 i get 80C.

No need to worry, I think 80c. is nominal under heavy load.
BF1 will do that.
The processor will slow down or shut off if it detects a dangerous temperature. That is around 100c.

If you have 160mm available for an air cooler, the scythe kotetsu does a very nice job for about $35.
Here is a review:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1391-page1.html

 

[AAGG02]

Ok. I did mounted everything and i get 30C at idle. But what worries me is that in Battlefield 1 i get 80C.

No need to worry, I think 80c. is nominal under heavy load.
BF1 will do that.
The processor will slow down or shut off if it detects a dangerous temperature. That is around 100c.

If you have 160mm available for an air cooler, the scythe kotetsu does a very nice job for about $35.
Here is a review:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1391-page1.html

Probably the thermal paste need some time to "accomodate" ? This happened to me with my old Ryzen CPU.

 

[geofelt]

The stock cooler is not a strong one, but is generally adequate.
30c. at idle tells me it is mounted well.
About the only other thing to check is that your case is supplying enough fresh air to let the cooler do it's job.
A single 120mm front intake fan would be the minimum if you do not use a discrete graphics card.

If you have a gaming system and a strong graphics card, two 120/140mm fans is what I would recommend.

 

[AAGG02]

I got two intake in front 120mm both and two outtake. , one in the back and one on top, 120mm both. Gtx 1080 is the gpu. Old cpu did not got rhat hot

 

[geofelt]

8700 WILL generate heat under load.
The turbo can be impressive plus 6 cores will generate heat.
Again, you are good.
My main reason to add an aftermarket cooler would be to reduce the noise of the stock cooler fan when under load.