Need Advice from Architects (ryzen build)
- Thread starter Davros
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yes it is, no more thermal paste so it's going to have to stay on for now I think I will still get an aio though when I have the cash
I have a tube of paste somewhere but I bought it in 2007 so I think it's past it's sell by date
ps: when I bought my stuff they had some expensive air coolers on display, my god they are huge think of a house brick with heatpipes.
pps: my case could really do with at least 2 more fans
more p's and an s : when idle my intel i5 used to drop it's multiplier from 31 to 16 I've never seen the ryzen go below a 35 multiplier
I have a tube of paste somewhere but I bought it in 2007 so I think it's past it's sell by date
ps: when I bought my stuff they had some expensive air coolers on display, my god they are huge think of a house brick with heatpipes.
pps: my case could really do with at least 2 more fans
more p's and an s : when idle my intel i5 used to drop it's multiplier from 31 to 16 I've never seen the ryzen go below a 35 multiplier
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dav, you added thermal paste to the Heatsink?
on my Ryzen 5 2600, it use pre-applied thermal tape on the base of the heatsink. The fan is never audible even when im rendering a video, using all cores. My ryzen do have lower clock than yours tho.
hmm, maybe i can overclock my ryzen to your clock...
on my Ryzen 5 2600, it use pre-applied thermal tape on the base of the heatsink. The fan is never audible even when im rendering a video, using all cores. My ryzen do have lower clock than yours tho.
hmm, maybe i can overclock my ryzen to your clock...
holy flying mackerel!!!
thanks to @Davros talk about fan noise, I checked my fan it only spin to 3000RPM max, even with 400MHz OC. Looking at the temp
CPU reports 85C, Motherboard reports the CPU is 60C.
and MSI tied the CPU fan to motherboard CPU temp sensor instead of CPU temp sensor in the CPU itself. As a workaround, i'm changing the fan curve.
thanks to @Davros talk about fan noise, I checked my fan it only spin to 3000RPM max, even with 400MHz OC. Looking at the temp
CPU reports 85C, Motherboard reports the CPU is 60C.
and MSI tied the CPU fan to motherboard CPU temp sensor instead of CPU temp sensor in the CPU itself. As a workaround, i'm changing the fan curve.
change the windows 10 power profile to BALANCED via the legacy control panel. Or manually change the minimum clock to 5% on the legacy power control panel.
I don't see any switch. Where exactly is it?
Btw the power option will keep reverting almost after any windows 10 update.
Oh my God. That looks to be pretty hard to reach. I'll try to look for it
oh, thanks! you saved me from opening the PC case and moving the tentacles... erm... i mean... the cables.
so i guess, 3000RPM is my max fan speed.
When I OC it to 3.8GHz it goes to 85c in less than a minute.
Its okay tho with default clocks.
Little rant about aio's (looking at you corsair)
At some point in time corsair were designing an aio and the lead engineer said "As you know cpu's are square very occasionally rectangular but never ever round so bearing that in mind what shape shall we make the contact plate of our latest aio"
At this point some assclown put his hand up and said "I know lets make it round"
why was he not immediately beaten to death ?
Corsair on the right
At some point in time corsair were designing an aio and the lead engineer said "As you know cpu's are square very occasionally rectangular but never ever round so bearing that in mind what shape shall we make the contact plate of our latest aio"
At this point some assclown put his hand up and said "I know lets make it round"
why was he not immediately beaten to death ?
Corsair on the right
Just because the spreader is a square? The most efficient method of applying paste is a small blob in the middle and let the pressure push it out, which makes a circle. Also, heat doesn't spread out from the CPU underneath in a square shape...
Let me tell you why I disagree
Forgive my lack of artistic skills
Imagine this is a heatspreader under a microscope
the black star just represents the centre where your blob of paste would be
the red represents a raised area
the grey represents an area that would not have paste on it using your method
ps: imagine this is a magnified cross section of a heatspreader
imagine the contact pad is perfect and in A it would lie directly on top of the green and the black in B
(forgot to draw it in)
green represents thermal paste
most people think A is best but it's actually B the best thermal conductivity happens between metal and metal not metal-thermal paste-metal
but metal-thermal paste-metal is superior to metal-air-metal
Forgive my lack of artistic skills
Imagine this is a heatspreader under a microscope
the black star just represents the centre where your blob of paste would be
the red represents a raised area
the grey represents an area that would not have paste on it using your method
ps: imagine this is a magnified cross section of a heatspreader
imagine the contact pad is perfect and in A it would lie directly on top of the green and the black in B
(forgot to draw it in)
green represents thermal paste
most people think A is best but it's actually B the best thermal conductivity happens between metal and metal not metal-thermal paste-metal
but metal-thermal paste-metal is superior to metal-air-metal
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If the circular heatsink and thermaltape are bigger than the heatspreader, isn't it will give similar thermal performance to square heatsink with square thermaltape? Assuming everything else are similar enough (similar fan speed, similar material, etc)
The circular one will simply have unused thermal tape on it's four sides
The circular one will simply have unused thermal tape on it's four sides