Heat transfering substance

[The Coolest]

What is the best stuff u can use betwin the heatsink and ur chip?

 

[Kingslayer]

Snot.

 

[Kingslayer]

Hehehe.

Actually Artic Silver II is about the best affordable thing out there. It works well, but must be applied carefully and properly according to their website in order to get the full return out of it.

 

[Hemitboy]

Anyone care to share their success stories with thermal paste, Arctic Silver or otherwise? I'm looking into this for my motherboard northbridge heat sink and am curious what kind of temperature drops people have seen by just applying thermal paste.

Epox BX3 Rev 0.5
(Intel 440BX Chipset)

 

[The Coolest]

Thx for the answer just wanted to ask for the sites address

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

actually, if someone made a gold compound, it would probably be the best, but since Silver is the only thing in production, it's definitely top of the line.

Danger Den carries it for $8 a tube here:

http://www.dangerden.com/mall/arctic_silver.asp

 

[The Coolest]

I was asking to know the wesite address of the Artic Silver makers

 

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

The Coolest (Jul 31, 2001 04:00 p.m.):
I was asking to know the wesite address of the Artic Silver makers

here you go

 

[The Coolest]

Figures, lol

 

[SteenkyBastage]

if you're implying that if someone made a paste with actual gold in it...uhh, no.
gold is not as good of a conductor of heat as silver is. it is however a good conductor of electricity, which in this case would be bad.

 

[*spazzed*]

Now if we had a paste with fine diamond, the heat transfer between the chip and the heatsink would be greater then between the heatsink and the air

 

[SteenkyBastage]

lol, true...but imagine the cost

or for that matter, why not just attempt to get a diamond HSF in the first place?

 

[William]

what every became of the gold leaf idea?