Review on 🧊 AS5-3.5G Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste by Sadik Pinger

Be yourself 13 years ago. Built a new fire breather. Top PC (at least for a college nerd). I play WoW on top graphics. I'm on a quest as a tauren in Thunder Bluff on one of these plateaus (just got back). Do you know why I remember it so vividly? Because my computer crashed last time. I learned a hard lesson: always apply a small, pea-sized amount of paste and make sure it covers most if not all of the CPU substrate without lifting. I didn't cover the CPU enough so it overheated. The processor burned out because the thermal shutdowns we have today weren't that reliable. Huge crap. Fast forward one month (August 2018). They've had a custom PC for about a year. In the stress test, the computer freezes immediately after overclocking the processor. First mistake: I used a stress test that tests the CPU and GPU, so it's hard to tell if it's CPU overclocking, the motherboard, or just a GPU failure (which has happened to me a few times). .Learn from this bug and use it Prime95). I just think it's bad CPU overclocking. I reset the processor to normal settings. The computer still freezes intermittently (maybe once an hour?). It's driving me nuts over the weeks of troubleshooting, cleaning my case, reinstalling the graphics card in a different PCI-e slot, reformatting, etc. I can't pinpoint what it is without the $200 tech software . No thank you. I'm ordering a new PSU thinking maybe I messed up the voltage and fried my PSU ($100+) and I'm ordering this thermal paste. Thermal paste comes first. I very thoroughly clean the CPU of the 1 year old thermal paste with coffee filter/cotton swab and 91% isopropanol, replant it and apply a small pea sized piece of paste to the CPU. Since then, the PC no longer freezes. . What have I learned? Make sure your thermal paste is thorough, but not too thorough (lesson 2004). what was my last lesson Remove and reapply at least once a year, even if the paste says it will last for years. I had an ARCTIC MX-4 on the processor for a year and he said it should last at least 8 years. How dry it was (the layer was dry and very difficult to remove from the processor), I do not agree. You may end up spending $6 versus hundreds (2018). Learning never ends. Remember, less is more, but also make sure you cover everything. That's a fine line to walk. Check out the youtube videos I didn't have in 2004. They help a lot.