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Thermal Paste Roundup: AS5 vs MX1 vs CM Prem

@ 2006/01/05

These pastes were tested:

- Arctic Cooling MX1
- Arctic Silver AS 5
- Arctic Silver Ceramique
- Coolermaster CM Premium (Ptk-001)
- Titanium Nano Blue
- Coollaboratories liquid metal

On this sytem:

- Abit AG8 - 3 RD Eye
- Pentium 4 - 630
- Speeze EE507B7 ChillMax

the results are interesting... or not at all depending on what interests you

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Source:

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/09

good review from dirkvader, 3 day prime burn in and detailed test setup specs

Interesting would be if someone did a compare with different roughnesses of heatsink finishes

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/09

And another MX1 vs AS5 vs Liquid Metal review:
http://www.dirkvader.de/frame.php?si...y%2Findex.html

this time difference is not so big at all

and AS5 vs Liquid Metal : http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/h...meleitpaste/2/

a bigger difference

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/09

Zalman CNPS7000Cu + this compound:

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the aluminum support of the heatsink disintegrated

source: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...mer%2F11782%2F

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/09

scroll to the bottom, you'll see what the Liquid metal does to ALU
http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scito...uid_metal.html

Comment from piotke @ 2006/01/05

Copper, anodiazed (but correctly written) to prefent rust and corrosion.

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/05

wait, if it can't be used on alu heatsinks

What are heatspreaders made of?

Comment from kr15t0f @ 2006/01/05

Quote:

Originally posted by Rutar
Considering the materials used in it, probably forever.

till it has found his way true your IHS I guess.

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/05

Considering the materials used in it, probably forever.

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/05

2-3°C is overrated after burn-in

but when the margin between the pastes is 1-2°C.. it might be something to test after all.

and how long will that Liquid Metal work?

Comment from kr15t0f @ 2006/01/05

the way that liquid metal performs without burn-in (dunno if it needs a burn-in) cant be beaten be the other thermal pastes, even with burn-in.

BTW, burn-in is overrated I think? Got CM premium here and I don't notice a difference between fresh applied thermal paste or the one that is on the cpu for more then a year

Comment from jmke @ 2006/01/05

Rutar, feel free to do some tests?

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/05

Maybe if you shuffle your heatsinks and CPUS all the time, but a lot of users just want good thermal paste because it's still a quite cheap way of reducing temps.

Comment from kr15t0f @ 2006/01/05

Quote:

Originally posted by Rutar
no burn in time, which is required for all pastes, so the results are not real world ones

yes they are for overclockers. Most ppl don't have time to let there thermal past burn in after they apllied there heatsink.

Comment from Rutar @ 2006/01/05

no burn in time, which is required for all pastes, so the results are not real world ones

Comment from kr15t0f @ 2006/01/05

the results of the liquid metal look

want to test it, too bad I got an alu heatsink

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