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My new laptop will be delivered in a few days, somebody recommended me to apply Arctic Silver right away. Cost cutting has forced manufacturers to use very inferior thermal pastes and I will see a reduction of about 20C on my haswell CPU and NVIDIA GPU?
Is it true? Does AS compounds really make that much of a difference? Should I change the paste for better performance and longer life?
In general it is true they use cheaper thermal paste. Now the temperature difference depends on the CPU. Generally, the faster the CPU the hotter it gets the more it benefits. A 2Ghz CPU would not benefit as much as a 4ghz CPU. – cybernard – 2014-01-01T16:17:09.940