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To: ptanner who wrote (21479)	12/4/2000 5:25:19 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (1) of 275872

PT, and hope my order for Arctic Silver arrives today. I've used Arctic Silver on the last 7 or so machines I've built (4 of them at 1 GHz), it does a good job! About the only negative I see is that the stuff is really messy to work with, get any of it on your hands and it seems that instantly everything in the room has Artic Silver on it. Be extremely careful when applying it to the processor, one slip and you'll have the compound on the gold contacts and/or bridges. I cleaned up a mess using acetone and Qtips but its best not to make the mistake at all. Does it perform better? Probably, but who knows? After an Arctic Silver application, I'm not about to pull the heatsink/fan (I've used a Vantec heatsink with 60 mm fan), clean everything and re-do using conventional silicone compound just to run a test. The 1 GHz TBirds run around 47C most of the time, temps climb to 50C-51C after heavy 3D gaming. My biggest hope is that Arctic Silver does not dry out over time as the silicone compound does. Please let us know how your experience turns out, heat transfer seems to be "the" topic of this board the last few days. Kindest regards, CrazyMan

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