| DraconianAC said:
I've never used anything but Artic Silver 5 to tell you the truth. Stick with what works, has been my motto. But now that I've decided to open it, I went and turned it on to copy my game saves and heard the fan kick in 3 minutes after I booted it. I feel paranoid now. Great! Hate that feeling. Thanks for the input, I've seen gilksy's video before, he even has a .pdf file on the procedure I believe. P.S. I dig your Avatar BTW. Sekai no Senki rocks and Lafiel kicks ass. |
Yea, sticking to what you know probably is good and the Silver 5 still is good enough to make the cooling reasonably more efficient (especially if the old paste is nearly gone from the chips surface - everything was at the sides of the chips - and the rest all dried up, as it was in my 60GB PS3).
Still the Arctic Cooling MX-2/MX-3 can lower the chip temp by an addition 5-6°C, won't harden up (easy to apply and remove), aren't electrical conductive and are metal-free, so I'd really recommend using it as there is no risk of a short-circuit if a bit of the paste drips on the mainboard.
Sorry to make you paranoid, it's just that my PS3, which I never vacuumed, started geting loud 3-4weeks after I got it (launch day) and when I opened it 2 1/2 years after that there was almost no dust inside, but the thermal paste was a real mess, so I can only guess it began pretty early.
Hehe, Seikai no Monshô/Senki I,II,III is my favorite series. It may not have the most amazing sfx, plot, animations, etc. I've watched, but I really loved how the characters were portrayed and the atmosphere.
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