But what about a lifetime of these greeses. As far as I know every TIM has its own short lifetime and after that becomes unusable. Higher temperatures shorten the lifetime significantly. What is the mean lifetime of the TIM?
This thread got me thinking. I've been using CoolerMaster Ice Fusion.
This article does a comparison with a test rig using the temperature difference between room temperature and core temperature with a 2C measurement error.
No grease dT was 62C
Range of 30 or so thermal compounds was 32-40C
Toothpaste was 40C at first and 43C after 12 hrs.
Ice Fusion was not listed but other CoolerMaster products were in the 34C range.
I thought it was interesting enough to post. I'm still looking for a lifetime figure.
Hi,Matt! like you, I keep the side off all my PC's. But with no A/C and a brutally hot summer,I discovered,via CPU-Z,that two of my PC's were throttling back to half speed.Small table fans blowing into the case solved the problem.
For those wanting a more efficient temperature control without it becoming an obsession ;-D
Now that liquid CPU cooling has become so cheap I tried it out on this new 4 core I built a couple months ago.
Wonderful results. The liquid cooler keeps the cpu heat out of the case almost entirely to start with and with push/pull 120mm fans on the radiator it's keeping my overclocked 4 core at 48C. That's the highest temp in the case..NB SB MB etc. Standard case, nothing fancy. (I did do some metal drill work on the back of the case as the radiator is slightly bigger than the 120mm fan footprint)
I would also point out the liquid cooler cpu unit does not have a huge heatsink which can interfere with other components (RAM usually)
Many benefits, low cost.
An excellent argument for open cases is made here, but I suspect some people, like myself, are just not comfortable with the idea.
You still need to get rid of the heat somewhere. If you live in Alaska you could use it to warm your feet but any where south of there it becomes a real problem at least in summer. There is also cooling system maintenance to consider like keeping algae and other things out of your system and if it goes outside anti-freeze as well as spider webs and plant leaves in the heat exchanger, etc. You might also like to read my thread in "Getting Started", "Cooling multiple GPU's".
But what about a lifetime of
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But what about a lifetime of these greeses. As far as I know every TIM has its own short lifetime and after that becomes unusable. Higher temperatures shorten the lifetime significantly. What is the mean lifetime of the TIM?
This thread got me thinking.
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This thread got me thinking. I've been using CoolerMaster Ice Fusion.
This article does a comparison with a test rig using the temperature difference between room temperature and core temperature with a 2C measurement error.
No grease dT was 62C
Range of 30 or so thermal compounds was 32-40C
Toothpaste was 40C at first and 43C after 12 hrs.
Ice Fusion was not listed but other CoolerMaster products were in the 34C range.
I thought it was interesting enough to post. I'm still looking for a lifetime figure.
Joe
Hi,Matt! like you, I keep
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Hi,Matt! like you, I keep the side off all my PC's. But with no A/C and a brutally hot summer,I discovered,via CPU-Z,that two of my PC's were throttling back to half speed.Small table fans blowing into the case solved the problem.
No case at all resolves
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No case at all resolves almost any heat disspation problem. But the temperature in the room grows up substantially.
For those wanting a more
)
For those wanting a more efficient temperature control without it becoming an obsession ;-D
Now that liquid CPU cooling has become so cheap I tried it out on this new 4 core I built a couple months ago.
Wonderful results. The liquid cooler keeps the cpu heat out of the case almost entirely to start with and with push/pull 120mm fans on the radiator it's keeping my overclocked 4 core at 48C. That's the highest temp in the case..NB SB MB etc. Standard case, nothing fancy. (I did do some metal drill work on the back of the case as the radiator is slightly bigger than the 120mm fan footprint)
I would also point out the liquid cooler cpu unit does not have a huge heatsink which can interfere with other components (RAM usually)
Many benefits, low cost.
An excellent argument for open cases is made here, but I suspect some people, like myself, are just not comfortable with the idea.
You still need to get rid of
)
You still need to get rid of the heat somewhere. If you live in Alaska you could use it to warm your feet but any where south of there it becomes a real problem at least in summer. There is also cooling system maintenance to consider like keeping algae and other things out of your system and if it goes outside anti-freeze as well as spider webs and plant leaves in the heat exchanger, etc. You might also like to read my thread in "Getting Started", "Cooling multiple GPU's".