Neither OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver Compound or CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease use real silver?!!

[Slappy00]

From overclockers.com

http://www.overclockers.com/articles938/

Also posted on slashdot

I always bought Arctic III and V so I'm not in the group. If i were part of the group that was allegedly misled (an paid money for it) i would have some fairly choice words to OCZ...

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http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name= recall

From the above site:

OCZ would like to take this time to address the recent article published at Overclockers.com, ( http://www.overclockers.com/articles938/ )which shows that OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound has no silver content.

OCZ does not manufacture Ultra 2 thermal compound in house, it is provided by a foreign manufacturer with our specifications. Previous independent lab tests conducted at the request of OCZ have shown that the silver compound content in Ultra 2 is 25% by volume and 70% by weight.

In response to this article, OCZ has submitted another batch of Ultra 2 to a third party for extensive lab testing. This Independent lab report show's that the most recent batch of OCZ Ultra 2 indeed contains less than 1% silver by volume. While simultaneously we have received lab reports from an outside source indicating the silver content to be 30% by weight. This leads us to the conclusion that recent batch(s) of OCZ Ultra 2 from our supplier did not meet the agreed specifications.

We accept full responsibility for these problems and we will be seeking legal action against our supplier.

In order to help solve this problem we have contacted Arctic Silver Inc, and entered into a vendor agreement with them to supply OCZ thermal paste.

Beginning January 22nd 2004 we are issuing a full recall of any and all OCZ Ultra 2.

Any Customers who wish to return OCZ Ultra 2 thermal paste with an invoice will in exchange for their full or partially used tube(s) receive:
1- One (dependant on # of tubes returned) 3-gram OCZ thermal Compound (made by Arctic Silver Inc.) or one OCZ Dominator 2 Heatsink.
2- One OCZ EL DDR T-Shirt
3- One 10 dollar off rebate on any OCZ EL DDR Dual Channel Kit (at participating resellers)

 

[BlueWeasel]

OCZ misleading customers?? I'm shocked!

 

[Slappy00]

Th recall is a nice idea, at least they are handling it the right way...i suppose

Wish Geil would take its non-pc4000 pc4000 rated ram back that i bought in Aug

 

[bacillus]

:Q :Q

 

[RalfHutter]

I'm not surprised....

What's the old saying "A leopard can't change it's spots"?

 

[THUGSROOK]

hehe ~ i use AS4 (ceramique) ...no silver anyways

 

[WobbleWobble]

The OCZ thermal compound that OCZ will be exchanging it for will be AS5

Confirmed by an Arctic Silver rep in the thread about this General Hardware.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Well since it has been tested and performs better than arctic silver thermal compund why don't they just repackage it with no silver claims. Or did they just bribe all the reviewers who claim that it outperforms AS3?

 

[WobbleWobble]

The initial batches did contain silver and did perform better than AS3.

Now tests show that recent batches have no silver in them and perform much more poorly. They can't repackage the thermal compound they already sold.

OCZ has a reputation of being an overclocking parts supplier. Plain old thermal compound coloured silver is not an overclockers' thermal compound.

 

[pspada]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
The initial batches did contain silver and did perform better than AS3.

Now tests show that recent batches have no silver in them and perform much more poorly. They can't repackage the thermal compound they already sold.

OCZ has a reputation of being an overclocking parts supplier. Plain old thermal compound coloured silver is not an overclockers' thermal compound.

Come on, it had at least 30% by volume of silver coloring in it! :evil: