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Sorry Nebulous, my humor tends to be a little dry. I was trying to be funny there, I think I failed.
Lol, he didnt gove permission...He has no right to do so... you bought the stuff off the shelf!
Oh yes, the scratched IHS nonsense? (did not click the link)
His lawyers wouldn't have a leg to stand on... I would have pushed right through it, while clearly explaining EXACTLY what happened. THen linked to 50lbs testing for all products... This way, you would have shown the whole picture and not have the appearance of intentionally (or accidently) slighting his product.
The true purpose of thermal compound is to replace the layer of air between the 2 contacting metal surfaces with a substance that is a better thermal conductor than air.
The least amount that fills that air gap the better, the thermal conductivity of common TIMs really is irrelevant, the thinner layer that is achieved filling the air gap is the most important factor to thermal conduction.
Under the exact same clamping pressure most TIMs perform almost identical, the exception to that are the liquid Metals.
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Well excuse the hell out of me!
I think what he was trying to say is that at a given mounting pressure most tims will perform similarly at removing heat. The exception to this would be the liquid metals perform better.
I do not believe he was inferring that liquid metal tims react differently at different mounting pressures than typical tims.
Please correct me if I'm wrong Silver.
Any way to get my preferred TIM into the round up ?