Thermal Compound/Prime95 Question

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Benny86

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I got Intel i7 2600 OC @4Ghz with Easytune 6, and I got Corsair H80i with stock Thermal compound on it.
On Idle I get around 33 C and when stress testing with Prime95 I get 71 C.
My question is if you think those temps are too high or is it normal for this cooler and CPU?
My Fear is that I smudged the Stock compound that came with the H80i and its not cooling properly because I feel I should be getting better Temps.
For the record I saw on Linux Tech Tips that with Arctic Silver 5 (which I happen to have in my house) you get 74 C when stress testing on a new version of an i7 CPU.
Should I try to wipe the Stock Thermal compound and re-apply Arctic Silver 5 or those temps are fine?
 
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Karsten75
Your temps is also to a large degree (nice pun!) affected by your ambient temp. IIRC, LinusTechTips lives in the UK and that means he probably has fairly low ambient temps. :)

While Arctic Silver might make a small difference, your temps are good enough that I would question if it's worthwhile to dismantle the cooler just to get it 1-2 degrees lower - maybe.

Finally, remember when you put thermal compound on, it's not supposed to be a discrete layer like the ham in a sandwich - it's there to fill out the microscopic irregularities between the heatsink and the CPU chip - so more like the mustard - if you don't like a lot of that on your sandwiches.
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To be honest, the max temperature isn't too bad, if it was a fair bit higher (80+) then new thermal paste will be in order. So unless you like applying thermal paste that much, I wouldn't worry about it and just enjoy the improved speed of the overclocked processor
 
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Your temps is also to a large degree (nice pun!) affected by your ambient temp. IIRC, LinusTechTips lives in the UK and that means he probably has fairly low ambient temps. :)

While Arctic Silver might make a small difference, your temps are good enough that I would question if it's worthwhile to dismantle the cooler just to get it 1-2 degrees lower - maybe.

Finally, remember when you put thermal compound on, it's not supposed to be a discrete layer like the ham in a sandwich - it's there to fill out the microscopic irregularities between the heatsink and the CPU chip - so more like the mustard - if you don't like a lot of that on your sandwiches.
 
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