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In the first part of the thermal interface roundup I tested 26 products for their efficiency in cooling a graphics card’s processor and also checked out some of them with a CPU. This second part that you are reading now is concerned with 19 such TIMs that are included with coolers and do not sell individually.


The break-in period and the two cycles of tests for the two applications of each thermal grease are the same duration. I want to remind you that the modder-oriented Titan Nano Blue failed to perform properly during my preliminary tests. For the sake of comparison, I will add the results of the following products discussed in the previous review: Zalman ZM-STG2, Thermalright Chill Factor III and ThermaltakeTG-1 (the latter was in fact the winner of the previous comparative test).


The group of leaders includes the AMA, Cooler Master Thermal Fusion 400, Thermaltake (the company is in the lead again), Thermalright Chill Factor II and ZEROTherm ZT-100. These five products are as effective as the Thermaltake TG-1 and Thermalright Chill Factor III (by the way, the latter is only half a degree better than its predecessor). There is no reason to replace any of them with something else. The manufactures should be given credit for including such high-performance TIMs with their coolers.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coo...roundup-2.html

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