ArticSilver...Two Thumbs Up!

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I know it's not new to most of you, but I used it for my celeron. It overclocks from 533 to 850 no problem. What I'm get to is I couldn't get my G2 Pro's GPU clock with stock fan over 220. So last night I brought out the ArticSilverII and put a nice even amount on the GPU (after cleaning the fan and GPU from the less moisture compound that was already used). I waited about 20mins and fired the rig up. After letting it run for about 15-20mins I started jumping the GPU clock 5mhz at a time. It went from 220 to 235 no problem. I will try to go higher this weekend. So if you have a CPU, GPU or Heatsink that you just can't get it to overclock any higher then I would recommend using the ArticSilver Thermal Compound or Adhesive.

 

[PG]

Some people have killed their video cards with that stuff.
It does conduct and if you get it on some of the contacts of the video card's chip it could be a disaster.
Arctic Alumina or Arctic Alumina Adhesive is a much better option for video cards.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Yep.. that's very true. I bought a Gainward GF3 Ti200 a while back and decided to put some ASII on the GPU. I put a little too much on there and the card wouldn't work properly. All I got was a scrambled display on my monitor. I was lucky though.. I just cleaned off the ASII and re-applied a smaller amount and it works just fine now.

Had the hardest time figuring out what was wrong though..

 

[Xtasy]

Originally posted by: PG
Some people have killed their video cards with that stuff.
It does conduct and if you get it on some of the contacts of the video card's chip it could be a disaster.
Arctic Alumina or Arctic Alumina Adhesive is a much better option for video cards.

I wish I had gone the arctic silver 3/ crystal orb cooling situation for my gainward gf3 ti200. Going with a custom cpu copper heatsink / alumina adhesive was a mistake. It cured too fast and i only got several more core mhz. I have put a.s. many times on a vid card, and it never killed one.