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Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound |
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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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To see what kind of difference Arctic Silver 5 makes, I decided to use a newly assembled test system using a stock Intel cooler with a stock thermal pad as well as initial and "bonded" AS5 states. The test system specs are:
- Intel Pentium 4 2.4C
- Abit IS7-E i865-PE
- 512MB PC3200 Kingston ValueRAM
- Hercules GeForce3
- Onboard audio and LAN
- Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 100GB HDD (internal)
- Western Digital 1000JB SE 100GB HDD (drive being tested)
- Creative 32X CD-ROM
For idle I left the computer untouched for an hour. Load was achieved by running Prime95 Torture Test for the same duration. I used Motherboard Monitor 5 to record the average temperature after an hour of 5 second interval readings (~700-800 total readouts).
Stock Thermal Pad - Idle
The first test was running it with the Intel stock cooler on idle. This was after the heatsink had already been installed for about a week, so the thermal pad had plenty of time to "bond" with the processor. Average temperature here was 37C, as reported by the internal diode.
Stock Thermal Pad - Load
On load the temperature jumped 16 degrees to an average of 53C. By now the heatsink was quite warm.
AS5 Initial Application - Idle
The first AS5 test was run right after the compound was initially applied. This was of course after the original pad was removed and both the CPU and heatsink were thoroughly cleaned with Isopropyl alcohol. Average temperature here was 35C (2C lower than with the stock pad).
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