Old thermal paste?

Crimson · Post by **Crimson** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 10:35 am

I recently put together a box for a friend using a 1.2ghz tbird, 38 cfm 6800rpm delta sk6 on an asus A7V 133-C. His cpu temp at load is 59 C. That seems a bit high for sk6 temps with the mini jet engine on it (i was expecting 35-40 at load). Anyway, the thermal paste i used was artic silver that i bought well over 16months ago. Does this stuff crap out after time? The only other thing i can think of is that is temp probe is right up against the processor.

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 11:17 am

As far as I know, as long as the past is sealed it will keep for a very long time. If it was open for that long a period of time I would be inclined to spend the couple of extra bucks just to be safe.

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 5:08 pm

Well the tempratures that you are hopping to get is for INTEL CPUs !!!

For the AMD ones ,there is another story ..
I have read about temprature skors like 75 Celsius in AMD CPUs , under that number , your friends skor look better ..

Any way this is just my opinion.
Another question can be , like how much paste did you put on it ??

terrancelam knows more about AMD stuff ,send him a PM to get some extra help ..

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 5:56 pm

My AMD Athlon 1GHz is running at a cool 41C

onetrueday · Post by **onetrueday** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 7:42 pm

The thermal paste I used on my duron800 to attach my vantec 9035d copper fan was over 4 years old. Plus, it was generic radio shack thermal paste.

The 800 is running stable at 1027 and never goes above 140F. Usually it hovers around 115F with a full load.

Yes, it's fine.