thermal paste cooling

[Benielishackove]

Hi guys, I want to know pls how much does the thermal paste really help the heat dispersion in a cpu\chip\gpu and how much better it is then putting a air cooler or water cooler without any paste ? how much heat it really transfer ?

 

[Ganz]

Thermal paste is mandatory, not an option no ifs ands ors or buts.  If you don't have thermal paste your cooler is worthless, and you could damage your components.

[Wauthar]

Please don't put on heatsinks without thermal paste. It is designed to connect the 2 metal bases with each other to get rid of the heat, it evens the surfaces. That and metal to metal contact doesn't really transfer heat efficiently.

[Megahurt]

I would expect a stock cooler with thermal paste to perform better than a custom water cooling loop without thermal paste. What brand you use doesn't matter much, but not using any will hurt performance a lot. I still use an arctic silver 5 tube that must be over 10 years old, works perfectly fine.

[Benielishackove]

lol u guys I tried it without once on a Pentium and it was so cool, I really didn't get it, but with no O.Cing never got more the 60c full load

don't remember the brand of the cooler 80% it was stock or the cpu but I sure I didn't hallucinate that

Edited March 13, 2015 by Benielishackove

[Kherm]

I would expect a stock cooler with thermal paste to perform better than a custom water cooling loop without thermal paste. What brand you use doesn't matter much, but not using any will hurt performance a lot. I still use an arctic silver 5 tube that must be over 10 years old, works perfectly fine.

Yes. Thermal paste is 100% mandatory our your CPU will die

 

lol u guys I tried it without once on a Pentium and it was so cool I really didn't get it but with no O.Cing never got more the 60c

don't remember the brand of the cooler or the cpu but I sure I didn't hallucinated that

Well please don't do that to any modern CPU, ever

[Benielishackove]

It would be nice to see though a real Comparison with numbers and all who is the best cooler thermal paste less just for the kicks and viewers not for real desktop application

 

now don't get me wrong I do recommend and encourage everybody to use the paste and know that it working

 

this post is just for knowledge about it and fun I guess   @Kherm @Wauthar @Megahurt @Ganz

[TonyL]

Expect bad things to happen with the omission of thermal paste.

 

It is really important becuase higer end chips heat up real quick.

Pentiums do not put out too much heat. Due to lower TDP.