So for about a year now I've been comfortably running 5 GHz on a 2700K with some heavy duty air cooling (1.40V in BIOS if you're wondering). Heavy duty meaning six 60 dB delta fans running full speed in an Antec Lanboy Air with a Zalman CNPS10X FLEX. Obviously, it's loud, and that's about to be an issue since I'll be living on a college campus with a roommate who probably won't like having to wear headphones whenever he walks in the room. Anyway, I've been running a cumulative average of 2 hours a day. I usually only use it for about 6-8 hours 2 days a week, but it all depends on how busy I am and what I want to play. Since I'll now be able to run all my fans on low speed, I plan to run 24/7 to avoid the 5 minute wait for the phase change unit to start. I've read some mixed things about insulation for 24/7 use, some people suggest petroleum jelly and some do not, etc. So, for 24/7 use, I would like some advice on insulation on an LD V10 Phase Change case. Also, I'm still not entirely sure what thermal paste I want to use. A few people on the EVGA forums have recommended me Gelid GC Extreme, but I want to make sure there isn't something better for 24/7 sub zero. On air I'm currently using IC Diamond, and have a lot of that left as well as some NT-H1 and ZM-STG2, but I'm assuming the GC Extreme would do better than all of those. Any other advice is also welcome since this is my first time ever going sub ambient, as I have always previously just used air cooling.
Thanks in advance,
DrLejos.SyntraGen
Thanks in advance,
DrLejos.SyntraGen