well,
if you guys are good at overclock your CPU,
the first thing you need to consider is the Thermal compound put on cpu for maintain its coolness.
and i recently found out kind of thermal compound called "Arctic Silver 5", have you guys heard about it.
or any recommended thermal compound alone and i easily get from Lowyat???

please advise

Most of us here use AS5 so there is no surprises about that. You can easily get that from lowyat.

can i get the "AS5" from any store in Lowyat?
or do they understand this term when spoken?

maybe you would like to refer to some price list on the main page www.lowyat.net

hi,
but i have not seen any listing price of thermal compound...
could you please help??

go to MYPC or OP in lowyat plaza. they sell AS5 =<RM30.
Or buy in this forum in bulk section, RM22.

Robyncom do sell them, some shops also bring it. Just ask them about Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.

i think everybody in the OC section knows Arctic Silver 5

most shops at Low Yat knows it too....

AS5 is old skool bro...nowadys liquid metal ka, mercury ka...AS 5 still quite ok...for a RM25 thermal compound, i'd say is the best you can have already...

liquid metal is hype ler bro

Not for starters.

Not to mention that it will eat aluminium.

dont forget CPU IHS is made of Alu.

Liquid metal while performs better but still not recommended especially for those looking for less maintained setup. Furthermore heard that it's not compatible with non-copper hsf. Any less than copper will corrode and subsequently damage the hsf. To add to that, the application of the paste must be properly done, this is conductive substance so beware noobs.

AMD64 IHS is a solid copper with nickle plating AFAIK.

Look before lap



And after, no nickel plating anymore



Nickel plate is there to protect the IHS from getting vegetable green disease (oh yuck)

This post has been edited by PCcrazy: May 11 2006, 08:37 PM

ah.... really arr.

no wonder IHS-ed CPU are heavy

wow, u go lap the proc? did it void the warranty?

what grit sandpaper did u use to lap? looks interesting.

Woah, nice but later the copper sure got those vegetable green disease.

u wanna lap ur proc oso? lapping wont spoile anythg to the proc?

wat copper u refer? wat is vegetable green disease?