Thermal paste help!!!

Hello Everyone

I looking at buying some thermal paste for my AMD AM2 5000+ cpu. I know
about Artic Silver and Ceramique, how do they compare? Is there anything
better and what is carbon black?

Thanks in advance

Long Life and Happiness





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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:27:50 +1030, Spock wrote:

I looking at buying some thermal paste for my AMD AM2 5000+ cpu. I know
about Artic Silver and Ceramique, how do they compare? Is there anything
better and what is carbon black?

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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:27:50 +1030, Spock wrote:

I looking at buying some thermal paste for my AMD AM2 5000+ cpu. I know
about Artic Silver and Ceramique, how do they compare? Is there anything
better and what is carbon black?

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm

Excellent article. You gain more by using a good cooler. If you go
from a 0.22C/W cooler, to a 0.12C/W cooler, that is a much bigger
gain than the tiny gains from expensive pastes. Just find a paste
that doesn't leave the area in a hurry, and you're done.

Paul

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Hello Everyone

I looking at buying some thermal paste for my AMD AM2 5000+ cpu. I know
about Artic Silver and Ceramique, how do they compare? Is there anything
better and what is carbon black?

Thanks in advance

Long Life and Happiness

Just use the stuff that came with the CPU (if it's a retail one).
All this crap about expensive paste is a bunch of hooey.
So what if you lower temp. two or three degrees? Big deal. It's the heatsink
or heatsink/fan that matters.

Happy Holidays.

R.

Ceramique is great, and cheap. Highly recommended. Some sites have reviewed
it without breaking it in. The arctic site has instructions.

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From my research Artic Silver 5 is the best actually beats Ceramique
I was hoping some of you folks may have used differnt pastes and not
bearing grease that is most illogical,
but then I did ask for your ideas and humans are totally illogical at times
and so I should have expected
some unorthodox responses.



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Ceramique is great, and cheap. Highly recommended. Some sites have
reviewed it without breaking it in. The arctic site has instructions.

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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:58:34 +1030, Spock wrote:

From my research Artic Silver 5 is the best actually beats Ceramique
I was hoping some of you folks may have used differnt pastes and not
bearing grease that is most illogical,
but then I did ask for your ideas and humans are totally illogical at times
and so I should have expected
some unorthodox responses.

And what's illogical about using a grease that has some of the best
thermal conductivity properties around, is known to last years and
years without drying out, and was designed just for the purpose of heat
transfer and lubrication. The grease I use on my cpu's is over 30 years
old and has been in an open container for the last 20 years. It won't burn
when you stick a flame to it. It barely runs. It's as cheap as it gets,
and it doesn't cause sticking problems or any of the other problems you
run into with some of the exotic compounds. I'd say the only thing
illogical is your thinking.

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