I just put some of this lovely grey gunk in between my e6400 and Scythe Ninja and it's already shaved off 3-4C from full load temps, this is before it's even had a chance to set properly. Wonderful.

So anyone else who loves this stuff, reply here!

Geesh! You must be a big fan of AS5. Yes, I use it with my Storm block and gpus and chipsets. :|

yea I like it, lowered cpu temp by 5 degrees after settling

XD

Yes, definitely some fine paste. =D

Yea, just used some on mumz p4 today, aswell as cleaning the fan, h/s and heatspreader on the cpu, and using AS5, overall at idle is running 15 deg celsius cooler

8O

15 degrees cooler?? I guess the HSF wasn't mounted correctly before, then.

This seems a bit over the top.

Yeah, it's wonderful. After replacing the stock transfer paste on every sink in my PC, the average temps were around 3~8ºC lower.

Gained another 2-odd degrees by upgrading ALL fans in my system to higher CFM models.

For under $10 a tube AS5 is worth it. It is also readily available. And a tube will last quite a while doing 10CPUs or more. What bugs me is that every company seems to be selling high end paste now which digs into artic silvers business. They are copying the originals.

I hate thermaltake cause they copy everyone else. I hate all motherboard manufacturers cause they copy Abit now with overclocking, japanese capacitors, etc... I hate gigabyt, Asus, etc... heatsinks cause they are copying Swiftech and Zalman and trying to dig into the heatsink manufacturer's business. Asus is trying to dig into Antecs case business. The list goes on and on.

Zalman and Antec make their own paste now too. I think Zalman should ship with a single use pack of Artic Silver 5. That would increase the value, ratings, online reviews, benchmarks, etc... of their products. the more people talk, the more you sell.

So despite the major competition in todays computer worlds I will always be a fan of Zalman for heatsinks, Antec and LianLi for cases, Abit for motherboards, etc... and of course Artic Silver 5 for paste.

The 15' drop was probably because his heatsink had 3 inches of dust caked in it. Its always a good idea to clean and reapply the paste every 6 months or so. I've tried those fan filters and they work wonders. I can go for over a year with barely any dust in the system.

So you are telling everyone here that the cpu paste alone cooled the cpu by 59 degree's fahrenheit

So you are telling everyone here that the cpu paste alone cooled the cpu by 59 degree's fahrenheit

read much? he didn't say the cpu paste alone, he said he cleaned the fans, heatsinks, spreader also. which can, all together, especially if there is significant dust buildup, most definately reduce your temp by 15c

Valis

Yes, i read enough too know BS when i see it. Anyone who types that paste alone cools a cpu by even 5 degree's celsius(that's 41 fahrenheit) is very misleading.

P.S. Hell if it is that good I'm gonna coat my house with the stuff, and get rid of the air conditioner

That is certainly possible... I got 7C less (at load) on a P4 celeron I had after cleaning the heatsink and putting AS5 on it. It went from 65C (149F) down to about 58C (136.4F). Notice that is actually a 12F change.

EDIT: Here is a link for you: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtempcf.htm

So you are telling everyone here that the cpu paste alone cooled the cpu by 59 degree's fahrenheit

No, he's saying that by replacing the paste and cleaning the heat spreader and fan he dropped the temperature 27 deg F

By your calculations a drop of 0 deg C would still be a drop of 32 deg. F.

Same logic. It's actually 9 deg. F drop.
(That's 41 deg f minus the 32 deg f offset)

Ummm, a 5C change in temp is equivalent to a 10.5F change in temp. At least that's what my middle school taught me. Could be wrong.

Tom

So if my cpu which idles at 86 degree's F, and i put some paste on there it would drop it to 45 F.(no paste in the world could do that). Maybe i should reword it for some of you guys. Anyone who type's that by cpu paste alone, can lower the cpu temps up too 41 degree's f is very misleading.

P.S Sorry to the OP, as i can see this is gettin out of hand. And is quickly becomeing something of an intel Vs. amd type of thread. I do not hate Artic silver, nor do i love it. But it can not lower cpu temp's by that much.

Please quote the post that said they lowered their CPU temp by 41 deg F using cpu paste alone.

A CHANGE (wish I could type this louder) of 41 deg F is equivalent to a CHANGE of 19.5C. Can't find that in any post.

YOU ARE CONFUSING ABSOLUTE TEMPS WITH RELATIVE TEMPS. PLEASE STOP. IT HURTS.

Tom

Please quote the post that said they lowered their CPU temp by 41 deg F using cpu paste alone.

A CHANGE (wish I could type this louder) of 41 deg F is equivalent to a CHANGE of 19.5C. Can't find that in any post.

YOU ARE CONFUSING ABSOLUTE TEMPS WITH RELATIVE TEMPS. PLEASE STOP. IT HURTS.

Tom

I stand corrected said the bowlegged man, I see your point, but i still do not belive that by adding artic silver alone, it will drop temps by 7 to 12 degress F.

Me neither. Mine dropped, well I'm not sure it dropped at all when I switched from the stock goo from Intel to the AS5. Biggest difference I have made in CPU temps has been case airflow management. I got 8C just by re-arranging how my case fans sucked and blowed.

Tom