ASII or Artic Alumina

[xCarne_Asada]

i plan on purchasing a new alpha 8045 fromThe Heatsink Factory (http://www.heatsinkfactory.com). Also I want to get a Crystal Orb for my Geforce 2. Another thing is I plan on putting a new fan on my motherboard. What compound should I use, Artic Silver II or Artic Alumina?

[Warlord2]

Artic Silver II is better however it is more expencive and is conductive so you need to be more carful when you put it on your card

I would get Artic Silver II

[Yodums]

ASII is not conductive it is capcitative.

Thus if getting caught in the lil things between memory it will link them and something will go wrong.

[Christoph]

Neither AS2 nor AA is conductive. AS2 is capacative, however, which means that you should avoid getting it on any pins. If you want to get away from the whole conductive/capacitive mess, you can try Nanotherm Ice/Blue or Arctic Alumina, as they're ceramic-based instead of silver-based.

AS2 is more for people who OC, whereas AA is for the average Joe who doesn't mind skimping on his thermal goop.

Edit: see below.

[Colin]

Neither Arctic Silver or Arctic Alumina are conductive. Arctic Silver is ever so slightly capacitive. Arctic Alumina is not capacitive at all. If you want a non-conductive, non-capacitive thermal grease, go with Arctic Alumina. It performs much better than Nanotherm.

[Nevin]

Arctic Alumina is NOT capacitive. It uses ceramics as the thermal particles and is an electrical insulator.

(Nothing spreads faster than misinformation.)

Nevin House
Arctic Silver, Inc.

[el]

so when will you guys have a Alumina/epoxy mix?

[AntmanMike]

They already did. It's called Arctic Alumina Adhesive. I reviewed it a while back. (Its still on the RAMSinks of the GF3, I dont feel like removing it)

[Silversinksam]

Originally posted by Nevin
Arctic Alumina is NOT capacitive. It uses ceramics as the thermal particles and is an electrical insulator.

(Nothing spreads faster than misinformation.)

Nevin House
Arctic Silver, Inc.


Nevin,

Nice to see you stop by and personally answer information. Keep up the great job in your mad labratory.


Happy holidays to you and yours.

:)

[Nevin]

Hey, who's been posting pictures of my lab???

;)

Nevin

[AntmanMike]

Yah, I hear that he tests all new compounds on animals. He even tests the adhesive's strength on lab bunnies. He stuck batteries in their butts to test its conductiveness/capacitiveness.

[Christoph]

Originally posted by Nevin
Arctic Alumina is NOT capacitive. It uses ceramics as the thermal particles and is an electrical insulator.

(Nothing spreads faster than misinformation.)

Nevin House
Arctic Silver, Inc.

Guess you'd know. Sorry about that. :o

I'll go edit that post now.

[xCarne_Asada]

meh i guess i will just get both, and have then for a rainy day

[Silversinksam]

Originally posted by AntmanMike
Yah, I hear that he tests all new compounds on animals. He even tests the adhesive's strength on lab bunnies. He stuck batteries in their butts to test its conductiveness/capacitiveness.


Antman, I think you got ESG associates makers of NanoSPERM mixed up with Nevin.

Thats the way ESG associates test thier products. Nevin doesnt have to worry as NanoSPERM doesnt make Thermal adhesives and making one to compete with Alumina adhesive or Artctic silver adhesive will definitly call for hundreds of bunnies :)


http://members.iinet.net.au/~rabbit/mousesign.jpg

[el]

I thought they tested products on Nevin!

[Silversinksam]

I wonder what adverse effects these had on Nevin :)

Important Precautions
Don't put it in your mouth.
Don't squirt it in your eyes, nose, or ears.



http://www.arcticsilver.com/adhesive_instructions.htm

[stymee]

Has anyone noticed any real difference in performance between ASII and Alumina?

I've used 'em both and haven't seen any difference in temps at all.

Just curious 'cause I have both, and I'm getting ready to put together a rig for the ol' lady.

[Silversinksam]

For comparison I put some Arctic Alumina adhesive on two ramsinks and Arctic Silver adhesive on two ramsinks and the difference was negligable roughly 1-2/10th of a degree difference using a digital doc.

Both are excellent choices but Alumina is not capacitive and safer for ramsinks.

[Betty]

I'm working on a comparision article right now....(I'm a terrible writer...so it might be awhile)....but, Alumina is pretty darn fine....a few degrees difference on the system it was tested on.

[Silversinksam]

Betty,

You do the testing and make old man Glen do the writing :)

[el]

just a heads up but svcompucycle is having a super sale on Artic Silver products.

I think the Alumina epoxy is 7.95 shipped and alumina 3.95shipped. smoking hot deals IMHO.

[Christoph]

Not to mention US$10 shipped for AS epoxy (which I just got some of).

[AntmanMike]

heres a review i wrote:
review (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49626)