About that artic silver stuff...

[willie]

I was reading about various high performance thermal pastes
and I started to wonder what AMD and Intel use to make the
thermal connection between their CPU cores and their metal
heat spreaders the cpu's all come with now.

Seems like I've never seen any explanation of how they do it
in any of the reviews.

Just wondering if they use artic silver or some epoxy
thermal glue or a thermal pad or what ?

Anyone ever take the heat spreader off or measure the temp
difference with a mobile cpu that doesn't have the heat
spreader ?

 

[Davy]

Click on this link-
http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/ftopic170775.htm

If you look at a flat 'ally' or copper surface under a microscop
it'll look like the moon...."Ok, ok, it ain'
round and it don't have phases" Imagine if it wa
flat though

If you place another flat surface to this where the craters are ther
will be no contact, has our old skool mastur used to say "Dy
dig"..? well this is gonna create less contact area thu
increasing it's thermal resistance

So what do we do, we fill all the craters with good ol' Arctic Silve
or what have you, this stuff being amongst the best

We're not greasing a lorries gear box, we just want a very thin smear
if you put it on too thick it's gonna do more harm than good

Filling those craters is all that is required...."ain't nothin
magical about it, apart from it being just good stuff", you onl
need tiny bit cos, "it spreads like the clappers believ
me"

Dav

 

[Charlie Wilkes]

I was reading about various high performance thermal pastes
and I started to wonder what AMD and Intel use to make the
thermal connection between their CPU cores and their metal
heat spreaders the cpu's all come with now.

Seems like I've never seen any explanation of how they do it
in any of the reviews.

Just wondering if they use artic silver or some epoxy
thermal glue or a thermal pad or what ?

Anyone ever take the heat spreader off or measure the temp
difference with a mobile cpu that doesn't have the heat
spreader ?

My Athlon 64 came with a pad attached to the heat sink, so all I had
to do was clamp it to the CPU. It melted in place to form a thermal
bond.

My temperatures were ok, but after awhile I got curious, so I removed
the CPU and heat sink and cleaned them carefully with alcohol wipes.
Then I applied Arctic Silver and put it back together. It lowered the
temp of my CPU by 5 degrees celcius.

Charlie

 

[SP Goodman]

My Athlon 64 came with a pad attached to the heat sink, so all I had
to do was clamp it to the CPU. It melted in place to form a thermal
bond.

My temperatures were ok, but after awhile I got curious, so I removed
the CPU and heat sink and cleaned them carefully with alcohol wipes.
Then I applied Arctic Silver and put it back together. It lowered the
temp of my CPU by 5 degrees celcius.

I've got a pair of CoolerMaster 3D Cooler Pro's coming tomorrow to complete
the new PCs - and they come with their own tube of silver-based thermal
paste. Is all of it pretty much the same? Not as the adhesive pads of
course... but... Thx.

--
Stephen Goodman

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[Charlie Wilkes]

I've got a pair of CoolerMaster 3D Cooler Pro's coming tomorrow to complete
the new PCs - and they come with their own tube of silver-based thermal
paste. Is all of it pretty much the same? Not as the adhesive pads of
course... but... Thx.

I honestly don't know, but I would guess they supply the best thermal
compound available. It makes little difference in their production
cost, but significant difference in how well the product performs.

Charlie

 

[Davy]

Arctic silver or any similar good stuff is far far better than th
thermal pads ...simply because they don't spread the same and fil
the craters

You'll find the CPU temp. rises a few degress when using pads compare
to than say Arctic Silver

But do stay away from that white compound you see in TV's etc, thi
stuff hardens, dries and can become less effective

Dav

 

[willie]

I was reading about various high performance thermal pastes
and I started to wonder what AMD and Intel use to make the
thermal connection between their CPU cores and their metal
heat spreaders the cpu's all come with now.

Seems like I've never seen any explanation of how they do it
in any of the reviews.

Just wondering if they use artic silver or some epoxy
thermal glue or a thermal pad or what ?

Anyone ever take the heat spreader off or measure the temp
difference with a mobile cpu that doesn't have the heat
spreader ?

We're talking about the heat spreader, not the heat sink

 

[Davy]

....and Oh, don't be tempted to use the thermal pad and thermal paste
together... another reason the goo's better is because the pads are
thicker than you can squash the goo..

Davy

 

[willie]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:48:34 -0700,

We're talking about the heat spreader, not the heat sink

LOL. How knee jerk are the responses ?

See artic silver, suspend reading comprehension skills,
repeat same old same old.