Does Arctic Silver cunduct electricity?

[deadkenny]

If so then it fried my T-Bird. I habe some Artic Silver on the L6 and L5 Bridges, might that cause a failure?
My T-Bird gets amazingly hot when I start the System, I burned my fingers - it was surely about 80° or 90° C !!

 

[MCS]

AS is only conductive when in an extremely thin layer and extremely compressed (much more pressure than a heatsink can provide).

80C/90C is at the very edge of the max temp for a TBird, and thats with an inaccurate Socket A temp probe, which could be 10C even 20C lower than actual.

I would suggest that your heatsink was not making proper contact with the TBird core and thats why it burned up. TBirds can burn in a few seconds if not cooled. Was their a horrible smell?

 

[00aStrOgUy00]

My CPU nearly died today...I couldn't turn on my computer for a while too...the D-LED lights on my MOBO tells me that it gets stuck at "Processor Initialization". I thought it was dead, but luckly after a few tries, IT WORKED!! Whew...I gotta get some more case fans, it works fine when I keep my case open(39ºC) but when I close it, it gets to 57ºC!!!:Q

 

[deadkenny]

I just took the CPU out of the case. Yes there was a horrible smell, most likely produced my a sticker attached to the bottom of the CPU. It was burnded at the edge. That's properbly a bad sign, huh?

 

[WarCon]

Did you start your system without a heatsink? OMG, why oh why, the humanity of it. Another T-bird awaits its resurrection as a Phoenix......😉

 

[MCS]

If the chip reached 90C, looks burnt and doesn't work then yes you have killed it. Bummer.

 

[TheOverlord]

the horrible smell was most likely the silicon in the core burning up...its very distinctive, only have to smell it once and youll never forget it...thought i had killed a cpu once but it was actually some chips on the hdd that burned up, scared me to death

 

[deadkenny]

The smell wasn't that horrible, just like some burnt plastic. But I can't get the CPU back to work while another one works just fine in that System.

 

[Richardito]

When you talk about AS being conductive under extreme pressure you are refering to a low electrical resistance of the compound when the molecules are tighly packed. Less space between the molecules decreases the electrical resistance and electrons travel more freely between the metal molecules. No matter what other people say, Artic Silver is electrically conductive. Do you really believe silver (a metal) doesn't conducts electricity, please! You see, e. conductive is defined as a range measured in ohms. As an example, electrically conductive is not the same as static dissipative. But electrons transfer still occurs in both cases. The AS website says that AS is slightly capacitance in nature, which means that it charges up in electrons and then transfers it to a nearby object. So it can 'ground' itself with anything conductive at a reasonable distance. No matter how you define it Artic Silver always conducts electricity to some degree and it is not safe to smear any L bridges with it.