Thermal Compound Review Roundup

Sasqui · Jan 26, 2012, 09:31 PM

Thoughts about these guys?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...er-2011/1377/5

Funny, they tested toothpaste (it actually did OK) and chocolate!

I was surprised that Arctic Silver 5 was in the top 3...

TacoTown · Jan 26, 2012, 09:34 PM

They tested chocolate before Ic Diamond 7?

Jetster · Jan 26, 2012, 09:39 PM

Its about right. Basically there is little difference in compounds. Just dont use Chocolate, nothing or stupid shit and you will be ok

the54thvoid · Jan 26, 2012, 09:40 PM

Beat you to it over here

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=158846

LagunaX · Jan 26, 2012, 10:06 PM

This is a much better and believable roundup here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...-TIM-Thread...

RejZoR · Jan 27, 2012, 05:29 AM

No Coollaboratory Liquid Pro/Ultra ?!

natr0n · Jan 30, 2012, 05:29 AM

arctic alumina is my fav, quick curing too.

entropy13 · Jan 30, 2012, 05:53 AM

Why are you linking to the Sept. 2011 roundup and not the Jan. 2012 roundup?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...uary-2012/1468

claylomax · Jan 30, 2012, 06:11 AM

Hardware Secrets does very good PSU reviews. They do these thermal compound rounds every month or so I believe, check out for the other materials they use sometimes: toothpaste, lipstick, etc ...

bmaverick · Jan 31, 2012, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LagunaX

This is a much better and believable roundup here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...-TIM-Thread...

Indeed this link shows more valued information. The contact pressure to temperature alone shows how well these pastes work. Fining a paste that works well under poor pressure (hold-down hardware) and then better at clamp down pressure is ideal. In other words, if your CPU, GPUs and NB blocks have different clamping loads, a thermal paste that can cover all of those loads would save the user on costs and applications.

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Jan 26, 2012, 09:39 PM	#3
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