What is better, thermal pad or thermal grease or thermal pad?

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fatal1ty_fan said:
i tired and like not here all the way and do u see me give cpu advice very much no u dont

and nobody has ever told me ok ......ok
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No need to be defensive, it's positive criticism. If you need any info, that's what the forums are here for. I learn stuff everyday here.
 
yeah i know how to put on a cpu and stuff (i built one 1-2 months ago)
i juss cant belive that some thing soo small has that much power
and it has been a long day for me
i have a headach and i have a big a$$ project to do for my history class and so



im a gold member now yes
 
shupola said:
how come paste is better than a pad?

and that is not what amd says.......watch this video. they say that a pad is for long term use and paste is for short term use when the processor will be removed multiple times over a brief period of time.

so what gives:confused:
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hes right, the thermal pad is for long term use, thermal paste is mainly meant to test things with the cpu (such as how high you can OC)

And if you buy a new cpu, more often then not it will come with a new heatsink/fan and it will come with a new thermal pad.
 
geoff5093 said:
hes right, the thermal pad is for long term use, thermal paste is mainly meant to test things with the cpu (such as how high you can OC)

And if you buy a new cpu, more often then not it will come with a new heatsink/fan and it will come with a new thermal pad.
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so i assume you are using a thermal pad correct?

have you ever used thermal paste instead of a pad and if so what kind of temperature differences did you get??
 
Right now im using a thermal pad that came with my cpu, and im running around 38-42C Idle, and my cpu is overclocked from 1.6 to 1.94ghz.

I did try thermal paste on my P4 3Ghz, and it didnt really make much of a difference. At first i put way too much on, and then after that i put ont he right amount, but only dropped a degree or 2.
 
lol you guys are funny.

I've never used a thermal pad in my life. I have always used paste on my CPU's. This particular one I have ahd for a couple years now, and it's had paste on it 24/7. Maybe they make different pads than they used to, cuz' I had one in my Dell laptop, and after i switched it for some paste, my temps dropped around 30C for load temp (it was getting 70C load)

I have also never bought a CPU that came with a thermal pad, they usually come with nothing, but some came with a little tube of paste. Paste also comes with most heatsinks you buy, for CPU and GPU.
 
ok thanxs for telling me that shupola and 4w4k3

and i think that all heatsinks come with a thermal patch (i know amd does)
 
A long time ago, heatpads and pastes were something for serious overclockers. CPUs produced little heat and a heatsink could easily handle the heat generated. Now, TIMs (thermal interface material) are an absolute neccessity, without it, a CPU would cook itself.


Also, if you think a PC CPU is small, lookie here,
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That is the Playstation 3 cell processor.
 
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gamerman4 said:
Also, if you think a PC CPU is small, lookie here,
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That is the Playstation 3 cell processor.
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it really doesnt look that much smaller than a pc cpu.

what is it clocked at?
 
Say you take the heatsink off the cpu and you see old thermal paste/pad on both the cpu and heatsink. Can you put new thermal paste/pad right on top of the old one or do you have to take the old one off?
 
Yea, paste is way better thant pads. About that thing you said erlier about that long term uses Vs. the short term use, paste should laste you about 2 solid months or even longer. Also when you buy paster they give you enough paste to cover at least 5 cpu+heatsinks
 
davie23223 said:
Say you take the heatsink off the cpu and you see old thermal paste/pad on both the cpu and heatsink. Can you put new thermal paste/pad right on top of the old one or do you have to take the old one off?
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u take the old one off.
 
Pad, paste, pad, paste... blah blah blah :P Just use what you have. Most stock coolers come with a pad and, since if you're using a stock cooler you're mostly likely not OCing, that will be fine. Aftermarket HSFs usually come with paste or you can use some other paste such as Arctic Silver 5. There are differences in pastes such as the conductivity and the stability (ie doesn't decompose when exposed to high temps for too long) but generally there isn't all that much difference. Personally, though, I stick with either AS5 or OCZ.
 
If you need to clean off a CPU because of old paste or pad, using isopropyl alcohol is the best (make sure it is 90% or stronger, not the 70% stuff) I personally use a q-tip and sometimes a toothpick to scrub/scrape off the old stuff. You can do the same with the heatsink.
 
shupola said:
it really doesnt look that much smaller than a pc cpu.

what is it clocked at?
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Tested at 4 GHz, but that's not it's strong point. Developers calim it can breech the Terraflop boundary. That's a trillion floating point opperations per second or 10000000000000 flops.

It's comprised of 8 32 bit SPE processors linked by a blazing fast bus routed through a 64 bit dual thread processor.

The SPE's are capabile of dynamicly redistributing load and multiple cell chips can be dynamically linked and run distributed processing. So hook your home PC with one up to a TV with one and the PC will start to distribute graphics processing to the TV to maximise effeciency.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1727

is an interesting read.

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/494/kahle.html
is another great article for the slightly more computer literate.

The thing that excites me is that the processor can redistribute load to group like processes together and minimize throughput within the chip and between other chips linked to it. This structure of specialization and clustering has been around for millions of years.....it's called a neuron.
 
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