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So i added new mx-4 thermal paste on my gigabyte 550 ti card and the temperature is higher than it used to be.

I didn't get the arctic silver 5 cause I was like HERP DERP when I chose the thermal paste.

So the average temperature before the mx-4 application was about 35c degrees on idle. Now, it's at a 40C degrees average after the mx-4. Anyone know why it's such a big difference compared to the stock paste... T__T

Ontop of that.. My CPU temperatures with the mx-4 is pretty stable. So... I don't know. :S



I'm thinking of....
Should i just get the arctic silver 5 and test that out....?

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xDivineCC said:
o_o i hope not cause i followed the white line diagram and put the heat sink where aligned against the line on the gpu board.

ok

did you tighten the screws clockwise, or counter-clockwise, slowly each screw a couple turns only - or did you tighten one screw and then move to the next, etc...?

the 2 surfaces (GPU and heatsink) need to be parallel with each other, with only a small thin film of paste between

@Dingo07: ... I think i know what i did wrong. I screwed one tightly and then did the rest. i screwed it on clockwise of course. I kinda get what you mean now by screwing them.

@amuffin: :o  5c temp avg difference under load while playing bf3.

xDivineCC said:
@Dingo07: ... I think i know what i did wrong. I screwed one tightly and then did the rest. i screwed it on clockwise of course. I kinda get what you mean now by screwing them.

let's hope you didn't crack it from that first screw :( 

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if you still have more mx-4 give it another try before spending more money. All these thermal compounds shouldn't differ by more than a couple degrees.
You may also want to let it cure for a couple days and see if the temps drop. Yes, the instructions often say 200hours for full cure, but people who tested this said realistically after a couple days you're pretty close to cured.

Be sure to do the cleanup with rubbing alcohol and the tinting technique.
AS's instructions are pretty good no matter what you're applying.
http://www.arcticsilver.com/intel_application_method.ht...

as far as the dot/line or whatever, supposedly shouldn't make a huge difference, but try a dot instead.

hey raytseng! thanks for the wonderful info. i did the dot method on my cpu and it works perfectly. I cleaned off the cpu. It's just the gpu that's been reacting. The cpu temperature dropped 4-5 degrees from the pervious idle (added on a nh-d14 + with the mx-4 paste). I'll give it another few days for the GPU temp. I don't think it turned out really well.
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