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Applying thermal paste12/9/2023 Anything more frequent than that is a waste of time and an unnecessary risk. So in a nutshell, I monitor frequently, but only re-paste when monitoring indicates a reason to do so. There's no point and even as an experienced builder, there's still a chance I'll break something in the process. When it starts hitting 70C even momentarily, I'll buy a fresh tube of Noctua paste (because I've been happy with their products, not because it's magic) and re-paste. When that machine starts staying in the low to mid 60's during long renders, I'll start thinking about changing the thermal paste. Those were the numbers at build time, they haven't changed since then, and they're the baseline I use. ![]() If the room is very warm, it might make it into the low 60's momentarily, but will come back down to ~60C. Using a Noctua NH-U12A and NT-H1 paste in an over-cooled case to cool an i9-9900k, it can render videos in DaVinci Resolve Studio Native Mode for hours, usually never hitting 60C. I define that as significantly higher than when the paste was applied when performing the same work, or getting close to the safe maximum for the chip.įor example, I have a machine that's optimized for stability during prolonged video rendering. My opinion: Not unless you remove the cooler from the chip, or start experiencing higher temps.
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