Thermal Compound
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dugdiamond
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iv'e got a 4C drop in temps from IC Diamond - best TIM i have ever bought
Game Over
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I was just going to mention that, silver has a conductivity rating of around 429 or so if I remember correctly, and Diamond has a rating anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500.
I would love to see OC3D do a benchmarking of some Thermal compounds. Use a high end rig and try out Regular, Silver and Diamond pastes. I would love to see if there would be any real changes in the numbers.
GuyIncognito
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A thermal compound roundup could be really time consuming. The makers of AS5 want a 200 hour curing time.
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Battle of the compounds! Yes.
@ the 100hr curing time, Holy cow lol for real?
@ everyone else, the stuff that comes with the noctua products always has people complimenting it, but it is said to be no electrically conductive? So I would assume this means no additive such as silver.
I was looking at another site today showing a comparison between different compounds, they found that with stock idle and stock load that both Noctua and AS5 had Identical temps, But when the cpu was overclocked both idle and under load there was only a 1 degree C difference between the two, with the noctua brand beating the AS5, they had about 10 or so compounds in the testing with as much as 11 degree C difference in some tests between best and worst. But It may have been an older test as I did not see any of the Silver or Diamond compounds mentioned.
@ the 100hr curing time, Holy cow lol for real?
@ everyone else, the stuff that comes with the noctua products always has people complimenting it, but it is said to be no electrically conductive? So I would assume this means no additive such as silver.
I was looking at another site today showing a comparison between different compounds, they found that with stock idle and stock load that both Noctua and AS5 had Identical temps, But when the cpu was overclocked both idle and under load there was only a 1 degree C difference between the two, with the noctua brand beating the AS5, they had about 10 or so compounds in the testing with as much as 11 degree C difference in some tests between best and worst. But It may have been an older test as I did not see any of the Silver or Diamond compounds mentioned.
dugdiamond
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i had used AS5 in the past before i bought IC Diamond
i won't be using anything else from now on
i won't be using anything else from now on
GuyIncognito
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If you dig around you'll find a very old article about *FAKE* silver compound by OCZ. It contained no silver when tested for silver content! BTW, I had OCZ ram die on me and after digging around it turns out they had 10% failure rate, before they got out of the ram business... I swear OCZ is the worst company.
EDIT: Here's the article: http://www.overclockers.com/silver-thermal-pastes-buyers-beware/
If you dig around you'll find a very old article about *FAKE* silver compound by OCZ. It contained no silver when tested for silver content! BTW, I had OCZ ram die on me and after digging around it turns out they had 10% failure rate, before they got out of the ram business... I swear OCZ is the worst company.
EDIT: Here's the article: http://www.overclockers.com/silver-thermal-pastes-buyers-beware/
I bought a ocz psu for a new rig i had built,within 10 secs of switching it on it blew.Defo wont be purchasing anything from them again.
I currently have as5 and pretty happy with it so far.
Ocz went in swings and roundabouts, they would have the best ram on the market one month and then the worst the next. My platinum set are still doing over 500mhz to this day xD
Their freeze extreme tim is aslo one of my fave's as its good temp wise a a price of piss to use)
Their freeze extreme tim is aslo one of my fave's as its good temp wise a a price of piss to use)
JezEngland
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OCZ Freeze has excellent results on tests results on many website. Because it doesn't need to be worn in to perform properly wich many others need many hours of usage to get to optimum performance, it's a good choice for the overclocker, bencher that constantly swaps the hardware often, I think.
I'll put Chill Factor 3 on soon and now it's using OCZ Freeze
I'll put Chill Factor 3 on soon and now it's using OCZ Freeze
