Can you guys please recommend me a good thermal paste? need to replace my CPU heatsink and it's a nice one so I want a good paste to do it justice. Ta
Can you guys please recommend me a good thermal paste? need to replace my CPU heatsink and it's a nice one so I want a good paste to do it justice. Ta
Arctic Silver or Ceramique. Probably the best thermal pastes you can get. Chose Ceramique if you're worried about electrical conductivity.
Dave
I would definitely go for the Artic Silver 5, or Artic Ceramique. Also coming soon on Scan.co.uk there is some new artic thermal paste which is looking promising. Here's the link, it will be arriving next week at Scan.co.uk so if you can wait its definitely the one to get.
Just FYI (also relating to Goku's post ^^^^^^^^^^)
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=68607
check out this thread
Originally Posted by Noni
I wasn't aware compound could make such a difference. Check out 'View 2' here...
Thanks thats the link I was looking for , its quite amazing the difference paste can make.Originally Posted by NightshadowUK
Reading material:
Dan's Data and Monster Hardware.
I love the dan's data one, screw Artic Silver get me some toothpaste!
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Lol @ toothpaste!Originally Posted by NightshadowUK
Having digged a bit further, it seems that the MX-1 is bundled with some of the heatsink sold by Artic cooling. In places that sells both the MX-1 and AS5, the AS5 is more expensive. Considering that both are made by the same manufacturer, it would be surprising if this new paste is designed to outclass the AS5. Of course, I'd still like to see some comparisons just to know whether I should get the AS5 or MX-1 for my next heatsink. But I would put my money on AS5 right now.Originally Posted by ExceededGoku
I don't think they're made by the Same people, AS5 is made by Arctic Silver: http://www.arcticsilver.com/
While MX-1 is made by Arctic Cooling:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/
AMD 3700+ San Diego @ 2.8GHz | Zalman CNPS 9500LED + Arctic Cooling MX-1 | Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe + Zalman Northbridge | 1024MB DDR RAM (2 x 512MB Corsair XMS Pro TwinX) | Leadtek nVidia 6600GT 128MB | Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music | 2x80GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA-II (RAID 0) | Gigabyte 3D Aurora Case | Hiper Type-R 580W Modular | Enermax Ultimate Fan Controller| Microsoft Nautral 4000 | Logitech G5 + fUnc 1030| Ideazon Fang | SpeedLink Medusa 5.1 Surround Headset | Samsung SM913N 19" TFT | Compro DVB-T200
"Dell? You get better tech support with a cheese sandwich"
Silly me ^^;
Yeah they're easy to mix up, but we all know now that the best compound manufacturer is Colgate!
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"Dell? You get better tech support with a cheese sandwich"
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