Water vs Air clarification
Water vs Air clarification
MX-4 Thermal Paste is excellent, but Arctic Silver 5 doesn't keep up with the latest products.
Yeah sure, I thought this might be my first PC build ever, so I did a delid/tim swap too. Better get everything right? 😉
2) I did some research on both the AS5 and Liquid Ultra, mainly because I chose the AS5 for the heat sink. The "torture test" involved running three programs over a 12-hour period to check stability. I used Cinebench to verify rendering capability, prime95 to assess thermal performance, and then tried the full stress test. It’s frustrating I can’t remember which program I ran for the thermal test, but I did limit airflow during the 9-hour session to see if it would cause throttling.