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Arctic Silver Thermal Compounds   Print 
Friday, 30 July 2004
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Arctic Silver

One of the products that seems to receive the least attention yet is crucial to system performance is thermal compound. This is the material that goes in between a heat source- like a computer chip- and a heatsink. Its job it to transfer heat from the chip to the heatsink, whose job is to disburse this heat. Ideally a thermal compound will be able to efficiently transfer heat but will not be electronically conductive.

The biggest name in thermal compounds (aka TIMs or thermal interface materials) is Arctic Silver. They have been at it for a long time and are the most respected company in the game. Currently their two most popular products are Ceramique and, at the higher-end, Arctic Silver 5. The "Arctic Silver" line has been around for some time- it is the companies flagship thermal compound and is usually regarded at the industry's best. Note that the previous compound was AS3, as no AS4 was ever produced.

In this review we wanted to test the two products and see if the more expensive of the pair, the AS5, was worthy of all the hype. [This review will be used later on to test against other companies' thermal compounds]





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