Arctic Silver

**zapjb** · 02-04-2006, 04:22 AM

I'm quite content with the thermal pad that came with my retail amd cpu.

**clocker** · 02-04-2006, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by fkdup74

I have to agree w/ clocker on this one
the 200 hour break in period, the price of the compound...
it just never justified itself

Don't get me wrong...I use AS5, I just don't believe it's magic.
AS5 does seem to stay where it's put and I've never given a second thought to the dangers of capacitance- it's the 200 hr. "break-in" period that I've never experienced.

**fkdup74** · 02-04-2006, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Originally Posted by fkdup74

I have to agree w/ clocker on this one
the 200 hour break in period, the price of the compound...
it just never justified itself

Don't get me wrong...I use AS5, I just don't believe it's magic.
AS5 does seem to stay where it's put and I've never given a second thought to the dangers of capacitance- it's the 200 hr. "break-in" period that I've never experienced.

I didn't get you wrong. You got me wrong. Get it right.

I wasn't trying to say it's a bad product
maybe I should have said that it didn't justify the hype....

**Duffman** · 02-04-2006, 02:42 PM

The 200 hour break in is there way of saying "not working? uh its still breaking in, CPU needs to run for 200 hours", *200 hours later, Man this cpu is hot I should get a fan or some AS or something....

**lynx** · 02-04-2006, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Originally Posted by fkdup74

I have to agree w/ clocker on this one
the 200 hour break in period, the price of the compound...
it just never justified itself

Don't get me wrong...I use AS5, I just don't believe it's magic.
AS5 does seem to stay where it's put and I've never given a second thought to the dangers of capacitance- it's the 200 hr. "break-in" period that I've never experienced.

Have you ever left a cpu for 200 hrs without stripping it down for one reason or another?

**fkdup74** · 02-04-2006, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by lynx

Originally Posted by clocker

Don't get me wrong...I use AS5, I just don't believe it's magic.
AS5 does seem to stay where it's put and I've never given a second thought to the dangers of capacitance- it's the 200 hr. "break-in" period that I've never experienced.

Have you ever left a cpu for 200 hrs without stripping it down for one reason or another?

probably not

**clocker** · 02-04-2006, 07:00 PM

Hey now.
Be nice.

Although, to be honest, the answer is "probably not".

**suprafreak6** · 02-04-2006, 07:35 PM

lol

**clocker** · 02-04-2006, 09:15 PM

Won't make it anytime soon either....just bought an Opteron 148 so the trusty old Winnie goes bye-bye in three days.

**Snee** · 02-06-2006, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by fkdup74

from AS's site:

Caution:
While much safer than silver greases engineered for high electrical conductivity, Arctic Silver thermal compound should be kept away from electrical traces, pins, and leads. The compound is slightly capacitive and could cause problems if it bridged two close-proximity electrical paths.

also from AS website:

On systems measuring actual internal core temperatures via the CPU's internal diode, the measured temperature will often drop 2C to 5C over this "break-in" period.

I might have seen around a 2 or 3 degree drop, can't remember
but definately not 10