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silver 3 or ceramique?

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azntiger0586

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i was planning to buy some thermal compound over at newegg and i saw 2 that i was interested in, arctic silver 3 and arctic silver ceramique. which one would you guys prefer? many thanks.
 
Ceramique is supposed to be a little better, and not conductive at all, so even if you slop it all over the place, you won't risk shorting something out.
 
I have Ceramique in my rig and it gives the same cooling results as AS3 and I hear that it's not conductive so it's safer.
 
ceramique is a breeze to apply to AMD CPU's on top of being non-conductive. Just stick a small dab on the core, set the heatsink on, give it a couple 2 degree turns and clamp it down. Don't have to try to get an even layer over the core, which makes it nice and quick. Only "time consuming" part is rubbing it into the heatsink, but even that is a simple and pretty quick.
The biggest reason I prefer ASC over AS3, is because its non-conductive, and any accidental "drips" or whatnot on some electrical components won't cook your stuff. For this reason alone i'd buy it over AS3 even if it didn't perform quite as good. A working machine is more important to me than 2-3 degrees.
 
I'm the rare silver based compound h8er so I say Ceramique=best price/performance ratio, Shin-Etsu= best overall and doesn't void AMD warranty.
 
When I ran out of AS3, I bought Ceramique and there was no temp difference between the two. Like the Ceramique better just due to the non conductive factor.
 
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