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Arctic Silver 5 & Arctic Silver Ceramique

DasFox

DasFox

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Well been a fan of Artic Silver 5 since it came out. Now I haven't had a chance to try the
Ceramique, so I'd like to hear on this one what people are thinking about this.

I plan to use one or the other for a AMD 64 3700+ and on a eVGA Geforce 7800GT 256-P2-N516, as well as placing it on the heatsinks of a Abit KN8 SLi.

THANKS
 
In my opinion, CS5 is good for covering small areas, while Ceramique is good for large areas. That's the way I've been doing it, and it's always worked for me. Me, I prefer Ceramique because it is non conductive, and I have gotten it all over resistors on my CPUs, and it doesn't bother them a bit.
 
I dislike AS5 on CPU's because you have to be very careful not to pull the frickin' CPU out. I would only use AS5 on something that I don't plan on taking out again, just for the hassle.

I use ASC on everything and it does well. In all reality you won't see more than 1-2C diff btwn the two. I use ASC on my rig and my Opty 170 @ 2.6GHz idles <30C on an XP90. No complaints here.
 
Ceramique is much easier to use, usually cheaper, and non-conductive. Only disadvantge is you will see at max a 1-2 degree increase in temps compared to AS5.
 
I've used them both and switched to Ceramique. Both work great but Ceramique is easier to use. If you're hard core then you will probably want the absolute best even if it is only 1 degree better, but on my 3800 my temps are 30C right now using an XP90 and I can't see enough reason to switch back.
 
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