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Arctic Silver 5 or Phanteks bundled compound?
- Thread starter ForestDingo
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- Oct 30, 2004
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AS5 has two issues which knock it off my list:
1. It takes 200 hours of "thermal cycling" to cure. Note that's not, "turn it on and leave it in for 200 hours" ..... that's 2000 hours of heating up and cooling down.
2. AS5 is capacitive and therefore is an issue if any gets you solder points, electrical contact points.
Both are described on AS's home page.
I tend to use Gelid Extreme or Shin Etsu 751. Here's the most exhaustive test I found to date
http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=62&limit=1&limitstart=12
The above four pastes scored highest with almost the same score.... The aluminum oxide ones however don't saddle you with the capacitance and curing issues that the polysynthetic ones do.
Phanteks didn't exist at the time of that tests but I have found it to be right up there with Gelid and Shin Etsu. For CPUs, air coolers and CPU water blocks, I like Shin Etsu ....I go for ShinEtsu .... it's cheap and in the top 3 or 4 TIMs. When doing water blocks however. I prefer Gelid as the toll that comes with it is handy and it remains a bit more malleable for longer period that Shin Etsu. But if it's a Phanteks cooler, I use the Phanteks. It's equal or just about to the others and it's free
1. It takes 200 hours of "thermal cycling" to cure. Note that's not, "turn it on and leave it in for 200 hours" ..... that's 2000 hours of heating up and cooling down.
2. AS5 is capacitive and therefore is an issue if any gets you solder points, electrical contact points.
Both are described on AS's home page.
I tend to use Gelid Extreme or Shin Etsu 751. Here's the most exhaustive test I found to date
http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=62&limit=1&limitstart=12
The above four pastes scored highest with almost the same score.... The aluminum oxide ones however don't saddle you with the capacitance and curing issues that the polysynthetic ones do.
Phanteks didn't exist at the time of that tests but I have found it to be right up there with Gelid and Shin Etsu. For CPUs, air coolers and CPU water blocks, I like Shin Etsu ....I go for ShinEtsu .... it's cheap and in the top 3 or 4 TIMs. When doing water blocks however. I prefer Gelid as the toll that comes with it is handy and it remains a bit more malleable for longer period that Shin Etsu. But if it's a Phanteks cooler, I use the Phanteks. It's equal or just about to the others and it's free
- Oct 6, 2014
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In all honesty their very little differance for most users what comes with the cooler is just fine, unless your going to try to tweak a extra 0.1 overclock out of the cooler and thst case it would make more sense to get a higher end cooler.
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