Posted September 16, 2014 Is there anything I need to worry if I am about to do my first ever reapply of thermal paste? I'll make photos of each cable and where it goes from the PSU. I'll apply a pea sized amount. I'll ground myself before starting it. Anything else, or just tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2014 Author May I also ask if 50°C idle temp. for a Pentium D is nice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2014 @Alexkiss21 Remember to clean off the old paste... Don't put too much... Don't put too little... No need to spread... And don't get the paste onto the pins or the PCB... 50C is a bit warm... What are your ambients? Mutsuki: CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU: Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2014 just to make sure your thermal paste got the same or higher thermal conductivity than stock intel HSF paste (intel stock HSF nowadays uses Downing TC-1996, ~3.5 W/m-K cause i didn't get any perfect datasheet about it). 50C on idle is warm btw. but it depends on your ambient temperature CPU: i5 4690 Motherboard: AsRock H81M-VG4 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz Graphics Card: Sapphire HD7870 OC Intel HD4600 MSI R9 270X HAWX Storage: 1TB WD Blue 7200rpm, 120GB WDC Scorpio 5400 rpm PSU: Corsair VS550 Chassis: Custom Open Air Case OS: Windows 8.1 X64 Mouse: Roccat Kone Pure Optical Mousepad: Roccat Taito Keyboard: Armageddon Kalashnikov AK-770i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2014 pro tip: a little goes a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2014 Is there anything I need to worry if I am about to do my first ever reapply of thermal paste? I'll make photos of each cable and where it goes from the PSU. I'll apply a pea sized amount. I'll ground myself before starting it. Anything else, or just tips? us isopropel alchhol to wipe it of with toilet paper and then clean it with a microfiber cloth Please follow your topics guys, it's very important! CoC F.A.Q Please use the corresponding PC part picker link for your country USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Spain, Italy, New Zealand and Germany also if you find anyone with this handle in games its most likely me so say hi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2014 May I also ask if 50°C idle temp. for a Pentium D is nice? That's rather high. 37 to early 40s should be idle. The Mistress: Case: Corsair 760t CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4GHz(stock speed at the moment) - GPU: MSI 970 - MOBO: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 - RAM: Crucial Ballistic Sport 1600MHZ CL9 - PSU: Corsair AX760 - STORAGE: 128Gb Samsung EVO SSD/ 1TB WD Blue/Several older WD blacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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