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    Arctic Silver 5 cooling problems?

    Apparently you can install a heatsink in such a way that while it looks like it's installed correctly, it's not. This was my problem. After taking everything apart and putting it together again for the fifth time, I've learned this lesson the hard way. I should probably ask that this thread be...
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    Arctic Silver 5 cooling problems?

    Currently I'm torn between two cpu coolers. I won't pay more than $50, and won't be getting a water cooling unit because as I do no overclocking, it wouldn't be used to its full potential. I know that this particular cooler has a lot of good reviews so I've been looking at it for a while, and I...
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    Arctic Silver 5 cooling problems?

    This is my current cpu. Upon further investigation last night, i found that there are mixed reports on the stock cpu cooler this has. A majority of the people say it's worth upgrading the stock cpu cooler, even if you're not overclocking. It may just be that a lot of the stock cpu coolers are...
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    Arctic Silver 5 cooling problems?

    The instructions for the thermal compound said to first apply a small mound (enough that once you spread it out over the heatsink's base it covers it thinly) and then a vertical line about 1mm wide up the center of the processor. The heat sink is mounted properly. The temperatures I saw this...
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    Arctic Silver 5 cooling problems?

    I've had this computer for about a year now, and it's the first one that I've ever built. I've been having some cooling problems on the cpu, and I thought it was due to one of three problems, which I have been systematically working on: 1) The case I originally had this computer in had very poor...
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    Pc Build for $600-$700

    So, I live in the USA, and I'm looking to build a desktop. The use for this desktop will be for video creation/rendering (nothing with creating cgi images, but just making low/mid end hd videos), and gaming. As far as gaming goes, I'm interested in playing games like BF3, and Crysis, as well as...

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