What's so great about Artic Silver?

[fobbman]

Damnit, I've had enough.

It is A-R-C-T-I-C

Thank you.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Don't be nitpicky....


Mike

 

[fobbman]

Sorry, it just amazes me that people can spell so poorly such simple words. Typos are one thing, but bad spelling sucks.

Ah well.

 

[Marzod]

Thanks for letting me know arctic silver isn't $200.00 Warrior, I was talking about a CPU, sorry I wasn't more specific.

 

[Compuguru]

I just spread it on with me finger!

(After washing hands)

 

[The Reaper]

Hey fobbman did you ever stop to think that some of the people posting maybe from different countries? I.E. Americian or English may not be their first language. This is not a flame, just cut people some slack.

 

[jugornot]

I have used various white thermal compounds and gotten good results, however arctic silver is better. On a PIII it might be only 2-3 degreesC better but I have an amdk6-2 500 running at 86F during UT (on same machine I let a cable stop the fan on the golden orb and the alarm went off at 140F but didn't crash)for hours on end. I have seen temps rise to over 120F with Good Globalwins and to 113F with golden orbs. Thats way more than 2-3 C. Seems it might be like the articooler If you ever find one. The hotter it gets the better it works. And I have done my own tests and it is worth it to ME. Just about anything will work on pIIIs I have even seen them run without thermal compound at all. Get hotter chips and they may need it. HTH

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Marzod..

I'm sorry you bought fake arctic silver. Real Arctic Silver is not electrically conductive, and does not fry CPUs.


Mike

 

[slag]

I think its funny to read how people say to "use a business card to spread the stuff", or "use a plastic bag to spread the arctic silver".

Bah!!

Use your finger and liberally spread the goo on your heatsink/fan. The clamp that holds the heatsink to your chip will push any extra goo out the side which can be cleaned up with a q-tip.

Joe