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ScottStevens1024   12-15-2003 at 11:45:15 PM

Ok, I'm going to be building up a shuttle XPC system within the next 3 months, either a P4 something or an AMD something (I'll make the CPU choice closer to the time). Its not likely I'll be overclocking. My question is, what would the experienced members reccomend: thermal paste or the bog standard thermal pad on the hsf?

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Coyote   12-16-2003 at 05:27:44 PM
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Well I'm not one of the most experienced here, but until they come along I'll add my two cents worth: Get thermal paste (e.g., arctic silver #5). I don't like the wax pad AMD heatsinks come with. I know I'm going to add/remove cpu's and I think the paste is easier to work with (don't wann clean off the wax). As far as Intel cpu's, I've read of others who have had problems getting the heatsink off the cpu (some broken cpu's resulted). There again, paste seems much preferable.

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spitoon   12-16-2003 at 06:34:49 PM
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Paste performs better, but if you not doing any overclocking, then the pad is fine.

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LinuxLiker   12-19-2003 at 06:42:11 AM
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Has anyone found a source to buy small quantities of the
Phase Change Thermal Interface Compounds that are listed
on AMD's web site as approved by them? Searching with
Google has turned up nothing for me.
I'm in a hurry and want to put my system together and prefer
to abide by AMD's recommendations.

Doug

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