Thermal paste

[Lee Van Cleef]

Very quick, stupid question.

I just ordered my gubbins for my PC including the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, I understand this comes with Thermal Compound already applied, so when I get the Processor, Mobo and Fan I can just stick em all together with no fussing right?

Apologies again for the noobish question.

[jonwoad]

Yup thats fine :)

[alexnifty]

Thermal goop on those things aint that bad I guess. You'll get a few degrees lower temps if you use something like artic silver.

[wonderlust]

the Mx-2 that is pre installed has been tested to be as good as if not a little better that AS5, Although imho arctic cooling seem to put way too much on.

[Lee Van Cleef]

I'm a dumbass, so all this thermal paste goes over my head. I certainly don't remember it from my last PC build (8 years ago).

[alexnifty]

My freezer came with a lot of compound on it. At least twice what I would normally apply.

Thats not to knock the performance of Mx-2 though.

[wonderlust]

My freezer came with a lot of compound on it. At least twice what I would normally apply.

Thats not to knock the performance of Mx-2 though.

exactly.

the only advantage is that you can take it off clean up the processor and remound a couple of times with out needing to put more TIM on the cooler :D

[marsey99]

its easy m8, put the cpu in the board and slap the freezer pro on top, job done.

just make sure no dust or hair gets inbetween :)

[alexnifty]

I think there might be a little plastic cover or film over the thermal compound. Best to remove that first ;)

[Aaron]

I think there might be a little plastic cover or film over the thermal compound. Best to remove that first ;)
Yeah, and remove the cardboard box too... ;) :)

[Lee Van Cleef]

I wasn't even going to take it out of the Cityline packaging.

[Aaron]

or the van - just park it up on top of the motherboard and you're good to go... (i feel we may be taking this a little too far.. ;) )

[marsey99]

you see now thats where i went wrong :D i just have a pile of boxxes in my case and wondered why it wont work :p

[Aaron]

:lol:

[alexnifty]

Lol, very funny :lol:

[Lee Van Cleef]

Took about 35 minutes to fit the heatsink in the end. If you're going to buy an Asus P5Q-E then don't get the Freezer 7 Pro, the copper heatsinks on the motherboard that surround the LGA socket make it nigh on impossible to fit.

[marsey99]

did you need to bend the bottom fin or did you rotate it so the fan blows up?

[alexnifty]

Nothing wrong with bending the bottom fin a bit to make it fit. I had to tweak mine a little.

[Lee Van Cleef]

Yeah, a bit of bottom fin bending sorted the problem out as reasonably as could be expected.