Arctic silver 5 vs IC diamond(performance)

iMatthewiNoob

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Just wondering, which performs better (in genera)?
There is quite a lot of hassle over this topic but the I noticed the majority say IC diamond and that is what seems to be the case.
In your opinion which one seems more useful?
 

yyk71200

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To tell you the truth, there aren't much differences between high quality thermal pastes temperature wise (1-3C is hardly important in most cases). Much more important is application quality. I heard that diamond may scratch the surface of your CPU cover due to hard particles though.