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| Quote : Ok well, If I were to take the heatsink off of the Asus Crosshair, and replace the thermal paste with Arctic Silver 5, and put the heatsink back on, would it void my warranty? |
Possibly yes, but it would depend on whats actually on the heatsink now and if they'd be able to tell you'd changed it, some of the heatsinks don't make solid contact with the chipset and they use some thermal pads to make up the difference.
Why would you do that?
Is it overheating?
| Quote : I heard that the Arctic Cooling Pro 64 works better with the thermal paste it comes then Arctic Silver 5. But don't the Arctic Silver 5 need to go through the burn-in period before it works in it's full potential? Well, what would be a better solution? |
Actually both have a burn in time, but heres whats really important with any thermal compound less is the best, if the 2 contact surfaces were perfectly flat you could actually use a heatsink without any thermal compound at all.
But even when a surface is mirror polished when its viewed under a microscope there are crater like imperfections in the surface and thermal compounds purpose is to fill those crater imperfections to conduct the heat from the die or heatspreader to the heatsink, and thats all thermal compound is supposed to do.
| Quote : Are there any good 120 mm blue Led case fan? |
Yes
| Quote : What's the difference between Retail and Oem operating system? |
About a hundred dollars
| Quote : I heard that Oem operating systems has a lot of restrictions then the retail version. |
Yeah I heard that too, 
but that doesn't stop us from using OEM OP/SYS as a matter of fact every OP/SYS I'm running is OEM along with probably every skilled builder that frequents this place. 
Wow reading the EULA in plain english is scary and confirms in my mind that Microsoft sucks more than I thought they did!
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