Silver Thermal Pastes - Buyers Beware!

MJOMJO Denmark New
edited January 2004 in Hardware
Look at this article, the results are most disturbing.
And it shows that there is a lot of cheating with thermal pastes.

http://www.overclockers.com/articles938/
The tests produced some very disturbing results:
OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver compound and the CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease has ZERO silver in it.
Arctic Silver's claim of, "Contains 99.9% pure silver" by my testing is accurate and of the compounds tested, only Arctic Silver products produced results showing that Silver is in fact present.
Based on my testing, I can not recommend OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver Compound or CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease, as they are both misleading products with zero silver in them. If you want a product that actually has silver as an ingredient, Arctic Silver 3, Arctic Silver 5 or Arctic Silver Adhesive tested OK.

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Well, it sucks that it's being marketed as something it's not. They could still be decent thermal pastes even without silver, though.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8940 good article ...can't wait for part II.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited January 2004
    Aw crap, came in second again. :-/

    Looking forward to part two as well.

    Read an article about Nanotherm I believe.
    It does stuff to your heatsink, it is like it is corrosive.

    Look in the google cache here:
    Nanotherm

    And then there are the AS pirate products.
    It is hard to believe there is a market for pirate paste.
    But the price pr. pound or kilo on AS is very high
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2004
    This sounds like one of those old tricks that sleazy companies like to pull. Yeah, it's silver paste alright. But that refers to the color, not the content.

    I had a silver car once. I should have melted it down and sold it off by the ounce... :buck:
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited January 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    This sounds like one of those old tricks that sleazy companies like to pull. Yeah, it's silver paste alright. But that refers to the color, not the content.

    I had a silver car once. I should have melted it down and sold it off by the ounce... :buck:

    ;D Ah so that's why it's called silver. Thanks for clearing that up. :D
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited January 2004
    Interesting, I run OCZII and I get better temps with it than with AS3, Ceramique, and AS5. Although if you've ever seen this stuff, one HAS to wonder what planet it came from...
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2004
    McBain makes a good point. Is the fact that you got "real silver" the most important thing, or are you more interested in temp reduction, regardless of the composition of the paste? I know people who would spread mayonnaise on their CPU if it lowered their core temp.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    McBain wrote:
    Interesting, I run OCZII and I get better temps with it than with AS3, Ceramique, and AS5. Although if you've ever seen this stuff, one HAS to wonder what planet it came from...

    sorry about this repeat post ...see OCZ Ultra 2 recall!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Interesting. Very interesting.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited January 2004
    They even throw in a free T-shirt :D
    Any Customers who wish to return OCZ Ultra 2 thermal paste with an invoice will in exchange for their full or partially used tube(s) receive:
    1- One (dependant on # of tubes returned) 3-gram OCZ thermal Compound (made by Arctic Silver Inc.) or one OCZ Dominator 2 Heatsink.
    2- One OCZ EL DDR T-Shirt
    3- One 10 dollar off rebate on any OCZ EL DDR Dual Channel Kit (at participating resellers)
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