- May 15, 2014
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So I went ahead to buy some new thermal paste for my GPU, which I did and I got some non-conductive MX-4 on sale. It lowered temperatures by about 6 degrees which is actually a very good decrease.
BUT, upon applying it on my Pentium G3258 which was doing fine in terms of temperature (I did it anyways) from it's H80i stock paste, I noticed that idle temperatures went from 31 degrees Celsius to 34 (wait for it), BUT the thing is now my temperatures are jumping all over the place. Minimum is 26 degrees which is a good sign over the early 29, and the maximum ON STARTUP is waaay at 52 whereas it used to be about 44 if I can remember (it never ever hit above 45 on my account). Now it's going like 27, 32, 37, 29, 41, 35, and so on just jumping up and down.
So is this up down movement bad?
P.S. It's overclocked to 4.4 Ghz forgot to mention that with a 1.34 voltage setting (keeping it higher doesn't hurt it apparently and it's my only way of stability).
EDIT: Halfway through this thread the idle became 28 and stable. I still ask why this jumping around happens.
ALSO, does the paste have to "burn in" before giving better results?
BUT, upon applying it on my Pentium G3258 which was doing fine in terms of temperature (I did it anyways) from it's H80i stock paste, I noticed that idle temperatures went from 31 degrees Celsius to 34 (wait for it), BUT the thing is now my temperatures are jumping all over the place. Minimum is 26 degrees which is a good sign over the early 29, and the maximum ON STARTUP is waaay at 52 whereas it used to be about 44 if I can remember (it never ever hit above 45 on my account). Now it's going like 27, 32, 37, 29, 41, 35, and so on just jumping up and down.
So is this up down movement bad?
P.S. It's overclocked to 4.4 Ghz forgot to mention that with a 1.34 voltage setting (keeping it higher doesn't hurt it apparently and it's my only way of stability).
EDIT: Halfway through this thread the idle became 28 and stable. I still ask why this jumping around happens.
ALSO, does the paste have to "burn in" before giving better results?
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