Socom

Hey everyone I finished reapplying TiM onto my XFX 750i Nb/sb. Must I say, the stock TiM was nasty. (See Pics)

About to take coolers off....


BAM! Purple TiM, it was solid... I had to remove by gently scraping it with a knife



Finished applying the AS5, about to put the heatsinks back on.


Look what XFX did to be crafty, never noticed it until now lol.


Any1 know a program to monitor nb/sb temps? I wanna see how cool I am running now.

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Blameless

The purple stuff is a phase change TIM. It melts under load to fill in gaps better.

AS5 is likely to be a good bit better, but it really does not look like you cleaned the old stuff off very well, this is likely hurting performance. When moving to a new TIM, there should be NO trace of the old material.

As for temp monitoring, I'd try whatever came with the board, or cpuid's HWmonitor.

zodac

Aww... I want some purple paste

Anyway, to monitor NB/SB temps, I Everest does (though maybe only the ultimate edition) and maybe HWmonitor too

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Monst3r

Use HWMonitor or Everest, Should tell you temps.. Even Speedfan

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Socom

The only thing I see from everest Ultimate that would be kind of close to nb/sb is called Aux, and thats at 34*C atm.

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zodac

MCH is for the SB, can't remember what it is for NB though.

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AMG

HWMonitor worked for me, SpeedFan did too. But I don't really like it

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T D

Sorry for thread hijack but is there any way to get phase change TIM off properly? It's used on my old mobo which has an overheating northbridge.
Thanks.

Edit: Arcticlean makes some headway, but you're gonna need a lot of it :\
If you can get cheap 100% isopropyl that'd be even better...

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