Arctic Silver 5 vs Arctic Ceramique

[scottchen]

Anybody read any reviews on those new Arctic silver 5?

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[HardWareBoss]

Where did you hear about 5? I have not seen anything yet. I just ordered sum ceramique.

 

[scottchen]

Well my retailer said he got some in stock, and i went on AS's website and apparently they are released.

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[HardWareBoss]

So is AS5 better than Ceramique?

 

[scottchen]

That's kinda my question and i haven't got an answer yet.

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[Grub]

I read a review that said it was significantly better. However, the review was linked from AS's website...so take it with due caution.

It's all Bush's fault

 

[HardWareBoss]

I read a review from a Norway site. They like it better than AS3. Buy no mention of Ceramaque. Plus AS5 you do not need to spread it.

 

[scottchen]

Huh? it magically spreads evenly itself?

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[HardWareBoss]

They said you put 1 drop on. When you push down HS it spreads.

 

[scottchen]

WOW, then how hard do i push it? with 300 pounds of pressure? so i could crack the surface of the CPU or GPU? Man AS's getting drunk. That's not really an advantage, i like using a credit card and spread it evenly.

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[HardWareBoss]

When you buy AS5 use your credit card if you want. By what their saying you no longer have to do that.

 

[scottchen]

I got a tube of that stuff, LOWERED My IDLE TEMP by 1C, under full load lowered by about 2-3C, so it's not really worthy of an "upgrade" over AS3, and there is virtually no difference between AS5 and Ceramique. Well that's from my experience there could be a margin of error in MBM5 but as long as i could tell, these thermal grease are really nice, so buy whatever's cheaper.

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[pIII_Man]

how did we jump from as3 to as5?


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy

 

[scottchen]

I know whatever happened to the AS4?

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[Grub]

The number four is considered by some asian cutures to be the "number of death". Kind of like 13 in the western culture. It would be like us buying Arctic Silver 666. Usually, asian marketing companies will skip the 4 in a progession of products.

heh...I feel like Clif Claven today...

It's all Bush's fault...all of it...

 

[scottchen]

Goddamn it then i must make something called Arctic Silver 4 and 13.

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[pIII_Man]

thats pretty interesting.


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy

 

[ImpPatience]

I heard somewhere that Artic Silver would void the warranty of an AMD CPU because of the silver in it - Because Ceramique uses ceramics instead of silver does it void the AMD warranty? How about this Artic Silver 5 – does it void the warranty too? Or is someone pulling my leg?

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[scottchen]

AS3 voids warrenty? Oh that's something new to me, because when I RMA my 1.3 Duron, I used AS3, they didn't care they just sent me a 1700+ because 1.3 was discontinued.

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[ImpPatience]

I thought I read it somewhere that it did. Something about there being a very small chance that AS3 will conduct electricity. But now I can't find where I read that and I couldn't find anything on the AMD page either - I guess I'm wrong in that regards.

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[pIII_Man]

you are sorta right, with amd cpus you are not <i>supposed</i> to in any way change the way the cpu is cooled. Meaning that technically by throwing a slk 900 tornado fan and AS 5 on a cpu you would void the warantee. However i think they are very leniant as long as the box that you return the cpu in contains the boxed cooler.


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy

 

[chadwickvm]

Speaking of AS5 and Ceramique, has anyone seen the comparisons between those and taht new Nanotherm Phase Changing Material one? I hear the PCM works really well but can ruin some heat sinks. Anyone else know about this or seen any comparisons?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Not yet. Still waiting for someone to compare the two.