Originally posted by: JPH1121
I call bull****. Artic Silver is 98% or something silver which happens to be the best conductor until you get to very very very cold ceramique, at least for electrical conductivity but the best electrical conductors are also the best thermal conductors from memory. I'm definately skeptical.
Artic Silver IS practically liquid metal.
Its not BS. This was talked a lot in this forum. The metal is a form of gallilium. I think i spelled that completely wrong, but the metal stays close to liquid at room temps. This however has a problem with aluminum as it will eat it right away.
Also as someone above me discussed, AS5 uses 99.9%
silver dust in there product but there is no way in hell the entire thing is made up of 99.9% silver. The thing wouldnt even come out of the bottle if that was the case. Not to mention it would cost way more then 5.99 for a little bottle.
Personally, the risk in using this is too high, expecially with people who have the IHS removed. This stuff conducts electricity from what i hear and that would mean bad bad news if it ever got on your board or any of the resistors.
And to be honest, as a lot of people will tell you, AS5, ceremic, the generic stuff you get, the difference between these TIMs are very marginal. 2-3C's at most, with the very rare 5C deltas on others. Id rather just hack my IHS off then use that crap because i also heard that it will bond to the IHS, and either way warrenty is voided. Also i garentee you'll get better results with IHS removal then using this liquid pro on a IHS cpu.