mayanksharma said:
I know that prescott comes with the thermal compoundings.
But as the options were asked for cooling, then there is absolutely no problem on applying thermal paste to the processor surface.
It will reduce your overall working temperature by 40-50%. Its true.
You can look out for Arctic Silver or Coolermaster HTK-001 or PTK-002.It will cost you around 350-600/- depending upon its availability.
Thanks.
And @tech&Me, for you:-
May be my friend,for once you are kinda new to cooling or might doesn't know at all about it. Then its ur problem pal!!Go and look out for more cooling techniques available out there in the market or try searchin the same on google! You may find out ur answers there. So, never doubt anyone on the topic,to which you are novice or didn't know anything!!
This is not a fight , I just want to make things clear.
I don't know where did you pick up the idea of applying a thermal compound to a Prescott Processor.
Intel has come up with
THERMAL PAD, Which usually comes with the processor fan fixed on to the heatsink.
There is a vast difference between a
TERMAL PAD and a
Thermal Paste. Both work differently.
Do the following experiment and see for your self.
Put the
thermal paste (which we apply on P4 socket 478 processors) and see for yourself what happens. You will get your answer.
Next you were talking about the Artic Silver, let me remind you that not only this compound is costly, it does not make much of a difference to temperature, only say 5 C of temp drop.
Another thing to note about this compound is that , its a permanent compound, you won't be able to separate your Processor with the heatsink untill and unless you apply a huge amount of strength. And if at all you apply such a strength to separate the processor with the heatsink, you may permanently damage the processor since, this processor has a different interface (opposite of what we had with the socket 478).
In my opinion, giving advice to people without warning them of suck situations is not a good advice at all.
And for your info, don't think you are the only one who knows everything about cooling. I am a professional assembler myself and have undergone company training from Intel, Microsoft, and HP.