Intel Retail P4 3ghz 800FSB no thermal grease

by **dbreaux** on Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:23 pm

Is that standard for this new processor or is my package missing something? It does have the biggest heatsink I've ever seen.

by **MonteLDS** on Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:59 pm

look at the bottom of the heat sink?

by **dbreaux** on Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:06 pm

Sure did.....thermal grease is not listed on the box either.

by **jjones** on Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:10 pm

Without the thermal grease, won't there be too much space betweeen the CPU and the heatsink? I thought that was the purpose of the thermal grease so that there would be better heat transference to the heatsink.

Unless Intel came out with a special heatsink.

by **cfitz** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:25 am

Read the installation instructions. P4's with the 478 pin package can come with either thermal grease or a thermal pad attached to the bottom of the heatsink. I suspect most of the latest P4's have the thermal pad, including yours. Hence, no tube of grease is included.

cfitz

by **pranav81** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:12 am

Hi guys,
My P 4 also came without the thermal grease.It came with the thermal pad as said by cfitz.I think this is much easier than thermal grease method.But this system hampers overclocking by a little bit as heat transfer from the CPU to the heat sink is not as fast as the conventional thermal grease methods.Atleast these are my observations.
See ya guys later,

::Pranav::

by **hoxlund** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:35 am

haha you amateurs, pick up a 2 oz. tube of artic silver 5, you won't be sorry

by **CDRecorder** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:20 am

Yes, the Arctic silver is much better. I'm currently using Antec Silver (re-badged Arctic Silver II) thermal compound, but I just ordered some Arctic Silver Ceramique thermal compound. Theoretically, it's better than the ASII.

by **hoxlund** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:03 pm

you can find the arctic silver 5 which just came out like last month for under $10

http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/produc ... =52&page=1

by **aviationwiz** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:30 pm

hoxlund wrote:you can find the arctic silver 5 which just came out like last month for under $10

http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/produc ... =52&page=1

Good thing that they have free shipping on it, because I don't think anyone would pay shipping on something that small, I know I wouldn't.

by **CDRecorder** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:24 pm

I wish I'd known about this earlier; I had to pay shipping on my Arctic Silver Ceramique. BTW, how does the AS5 compare with the Ceramique regarding the CPU temperature?

by **hoxlund** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:29 pm

nothing beats AS5, hands down

course nothing has ever beat any form of arctic silver

by **CDRecorder** on Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:55 pm

hoxlund wrote:course nothing has ever beat any form of arctic silver

My experience says the same thing.

Intel Retail P4 3ghz 800FSB no thermal grease

Intel Retail P4 3ghz 800FSB no thermal grease

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