A-silver or A-alumina

[Guid0]

I have a tube of he original AS and I have a tube of Artic Alumina. i have just lapped my HSF..........if you had a choice of the 2 tubes i got which one would you use?

also has anyone seen any kind of comparisons between the 2?

 

[Arkaine23]

goop

It probably will make no discernible difference, but I'd pick arctic silver since silver has an extremely high thermal conductivity.

 

[Starfoxer]

isn't arctic alumina the stuff that is sticky and attaches like
ram sinks and GPU coolers, or at least mine is. in saying that
id go with the arctic silver.

 

[Neco]

StarFox your thinking of the Epoxy type.


Arctic Alumina is a ceramic based grease, that is pretty much non conductive, whereas A-Silver has the silver in it.

I don't have numbers on performance though, so sorry can't help with that.

 

[Guid0]

yes and no........it is in the sense that you can buy artic alumina adhesive wich is what you described.........i got what is called ceramic polysynthetic compound.......not an adhesive

 

[rivercom9]

Heres a review of a boatload of thermal greases from Nanotherm to AS rto Radioshack to the cheap white paste.

http://www.gyrotweak.com/articles/goopcompare/

 

[Yodums]

So, that would be the first version of Arctic Silver? I would think Alumina would be better, more recent technology, and matches up with AS2.

Yodums

 

[Neco]

I Actually heard there is a slight temp difference where AS2 beats ALumina.. sor tof like trading off conductivity for effectiveness

 

[NASsoccer]

So, that would be the first version of Arctic Silver? I would think Alumina would be better, more recent technology, and matches up with AS2.

Yodums

yodums said it right. you are comparing as1 with alumina and in that case you have to take the alumina. But, if you had as2 or 3 then one of those would be the obvious choice in my book.

 

[rivercom9]

Id go with the Alumina if I were you. It is also less electrically conductive than the silver.