ARCTIC COOLING MX-1 Thermal Compound VS ARCTIC SILVER?

[bluemaverick]

ARCTIC COOLING MX-1 Thermal Compound VS ARCTIC SILVER?

Any Advice?

 

[Apocalypse X]

Originally posted by: bluemaverick
ARCTIC COOLING MX-1 Thermal Compound VS ARCTIC SILVER?

Any Advice?

Doesn`t matter in the least.
They both are thermal compounds. End.

 

[LukeMan]

I couldn't find my AS5 so I had to use my old MX1. The tube was nearly out I had to put all my effort into pushing a little rice sized amount out. Anyways applied to my x850xt and zalman vf700-cu I was getting like high 50s for idle. I did some more searching and found my AS5, so I took off the vf700cu, cleaned the mx1 off and applied the as5. Now it idles at low 50s.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Apocalypse

Doesn`t matter in the least.
They both are thermal compounds. End.

Sorry but that is not correct - at all. That's like saying oil filters are all the same - or toilet paper is all the same - they do the same thing so they're the same. Well everyone knows that's not the case.

 

[dBTelos]

"Sorry but that is not correct - at all"

?? Really, it doesn't matter unless you have a really shakey hand and need all the help you can get in applying thermal compound (if this is the case, your better of just getting some help). Or if 1-2C means the world to you (if this is the case, you have your priorities out of line).

 

[Rubycon]

I'm not saying a degree or two difference matters - the point is saying they are the same - not true.

I've seen people clean the pad off a P4 stock heatsink and put it back on the cpu naked and it works. :Q Prescotts will definitely throttle like that. And yes 1 or 2 degrees on the extreme end can make the difference between throttling under full load or not. Been there, done that.

Now lapping heat spreaders and heat sink bottoms is going a little overboard.