Does Artic Silver lead current?

[the_master]

Is AS II conductive? I was thinking about using it to close the L1 on my 1500+ XP.

[terranovae]

No it's made to be less conductive for electricity but not heat...

[Silver]

Don't get it across anything critical that you want to keep. Arctic Alumina I hear is non-conductive but I have not tested this. As for Arctic Silver there are plenty of folks that have gotten it on video ram legs and the cards are now not so good coasters.

[Yodums]

It's not conductive however it is capcitative.

Meaning if it get stuck in traces of your motherboard it will link them together and kill them, like video cards people have attempted to put it on ramsinks and stuff and it got stuck in their traces and there can be a little luck that you can clean out the trace wit like a toothbrush but not most likely I think thats how my GeForce 2 MX died.

[Colin]

Point of clarification. Arctic Silver does not kill a video card. A user applying it improperly may cause the card to malfunction. If you can't follow instructions or are just a sloppy person by nature, use Arctic Alumina. Since it is neither conductive or capacitve, you can slather it on without worry.

[ButcherUK]

For linking the bridges get some proper silver conductive paint or similar, AS2 is a TIM, not a trace repairer.

[NASsoccer]

so no worries with alumina? Because i am about to put new sinks on my gf3 for the first time. And, since i have never done it before that is good news that i don't have to worry about a little slip up.

[Akareyon]

AFAIK, Arctic Silver is only electricity conductive under extremely high pressure.

[Yodums]

Originally posted by NASsoccer
so no worries with alumina? Because i am about to put new sinks on my gf3 for the first time. And, since i have never done it before that is good news that i don't have to worry about a little slip up.

As to my knowledge there is no tests on them to prove it, but I do hear they work and for beginners I would really start with Allumina since even people who have already done this alot still mess up with this little incident.

For video cards I suggest Allumina.
But just because allumina isn't condutive or capacitative doesn't mean you should do a sloppy job.

Don't rush anything you have all the time in the world for this.

[ButcherUK]

Indeed, I have 4 ramsinks mounted too my gfx card and a northbridge sink all mounted with AS2 epoxy and without issues, you just have to be careful.

[Silversinksam]

Originally posted by Akareyon
AFAIK, Arctic Silver is only electricity conductive under extremely high pressure.

You brave enough to back that statement up by appying Arctic Silver adhesive on your video card memory pins?:rolleyes:

Odds are that you will have a nice keychain if you try it.



Although I am a crazy old fool and i did try Arctic Alumina adhesive on an old pci card on its memory pins with no ill effect, but I dont recommend you try it.

Like Colin said, "Point of clarification. Arctic Silver does not kill a video card. A user applying it improperly may cause the card to malfunction. If you can't follow instructions or are just a sloppy person by nature, use Arctic Alumina. Since it is neither conductive or capacitve, you can slather it on without worry."

[ButcherUK]

I checked the conductivity of AS2 with a meter, no reading at all. However the capacative nature of it will fry a card if you link the pins.