Aftermarket cooler no difference?

jlee14

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Hey All,

I'm disappointed to inform that after spending the day installing an aftermarket graphics card cooler (Arctic Twin Turbo II) on my card my furmark burn in results showed only 5 degree change. This is obviously crap considering other have reported 20 degree+ changes under stress with the same cooler. I'm just wondering if I did something wrong? Admittedly, I do not have alot of experience with installing coolers as this was my first one. I used Arctic aluminum epoxy for the heat spreaders, which I put on the RAM chips and on the voltage regulator. I used Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste for the GPU. Where did I go wrong?! too much/ too little paste?
 
I might be wrong but i am pretty sure the reason you shouldn't use Arctic Silver 5 is it's conductive i recommend you use
Arctic Cooling MX-4 i've used it for gpu's in the past it works great.

Arctic Cooling—not to be confused with Arctic Silver, which also makes thermal pastes—distributes several thermal pastes in addition to its lineup of CPU and GPU coolers. MX-4 is a non-metallic carbon-based gray compound that doesn’t conduct electricity. Although i am not 100% sure so wait for more replies.
 

jlee14

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Thanks for the quick reply. I thought the same thing. Alot of people say that too but I checked their site and they claim that the silver 5 is non conductive. Others say that as long as it doesn't "bleed" onto any circuitry, I would be okay. So I guess I'm not really sure what to think... lol.

And not to sound like a noob but how would I know if it was seated correctly or not? I suppose I could always re-seat with a different paste?
 

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What were your temps before, idle and load? And what are they now?