Thermaltake Orb: thermal compound or pad ?

[fvay]

I just bought an orb for socket A processors. I am not sure it has thermal pad or something else. its kinda sticky. should i use radio shack thermal paste or leave orb as it is

[Long Haired Hippie Phreek]

Get the pad off of there and lap the thing (the sticky stuff will no come off without scraping, lapping removes the scratches). Then use thermal paste, I prefer silver, or at least aluminum, but even that white stuff is better than one of those pads.

[Bsdboy]

I agree use the paste.

Bsdboy

[Brydon]

Nice pad remover is nail varnish remover as it takes the phase change compound off nicely http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif.

[LiLRiceBoi]

go w/ the paste

[fvay]

I wish somebody had left off of arctic silver. they are too expensive to buy $8 + shipping on a tube

[skuz]

I too had this dilemma. Tried leaving the pad on, and CPU never goes above 35 C so I leave it there.

[fishpro619]

Screw the orb! Go with the ocz galdiator. Better all around cooling, had the orb and it sucked! go to http://www.tomshardware.com/ for the complete low down on all the major cpu fans!

[fishpro619]

Sorry here's the link http://www.athlonoc.com/hsfroundup1.php
Orbs have very poor heat displacement!