On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:39 AM, Matthew S. Carpenter <rockin...@thecowsaysmoo.org> wrote: > > acquired myself some Arctic Silver 5 along with the Arctic Clean
I’m sure the Arctic Silver 5 is fine, and seems to have solved your issue, but tests indicate pastes with nano-diamonds perform significantly better in heat dissipation and high temp before breakdown. I normally don’t think differences in thermal pastes are truly significant, but G5 CPU runs very hot, and starts glitch badly when overheating. On several G5 iMacs I’ve salvaged, the capacitors directly adjacent to the G5 CPU were popped from thermal leakage from the hot G5 CPU. There’s an entire line of capacitors, but only those in close thermal proximity are popped. After replacing the popped capacitors, this is a case where I believe the 10-15% better performance of nano-diamond paste is worthwhile & significant. I’ve never had to perform a 2nd repair on any G5 iMac. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
