What's the recipe for Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive?

[yhelothar]

I heard somewhere that you can make your own, but i forgot the recipe...
i think it was something like 25% arctic silver and 75% epoxy...
anyone know?

 

[mrman3k]

Why not just spend $5 and buy some from Fry's? A much simpler and more elegant solution in my opinion.

 

[SKORPI0]

Made with 99.8% pure micronized silver.

62% to 65% silver content by weight.

 

[dxkj]

SKorpio is right, checked out their site the other day


what are you trying to adhese? If its no big deal just mix it and try it out, but I think you need a bit more artic silver to get the conductivity they offer. normal arctic silver III is like 80% silver so a 90 to 10 ratio would sound better, but then you probably wouldnt get much sticking action

 

[beatle]

I'm interested in this as well. No Fry's around here.

 

[yhelothar]

well i did that.. and it works ok.. i'm using an SK-6 on my geforce3.. passive cooling... the heatsink is pretty warm.. and the back of the card feels like it's around 60C.. gets too hot to touch after around 3 seconds.. not too bad.. with a fan.. it cools pretty nicely... i think i could have added more though...

 

[beatle]

Sounds good. I had a diamond firegl card with a smallish heatsink on it that would burn you if you looked at it the wrong way, so you're probably ok.