i donno, i have seen some of the test results, and 1-2* max difference was not a big deal. this test was either not proper, or he has clone AS5, because other test dont show that far off at all.
what was more interesting to me was longevity. guess which "paste" is still "active" 5 years later?
My crasy definition of active, is that is is still a "deep fat fryer" , some other defintions think that having a dried out powder under thier heatsync is a good thing.
But it was always some dried out crud that i have refreshed on other computers, that brought thier cooling back to normal (which also included cleaning too) so i dont BELIEVE that a dried out thermal paste is for poo.
and diamonds? i donno, because First think for a second where you gonna get ground diamond dust cheap, and IS it gonna have jewelers stone in it too? because a few (meaning only 2 i read about) indicated that the dimaond paste did a "lap job" on thier cpu (scarred). now that could be excellent, but then it could be bad??
there is some false belief that the 2 materials the processor silicon and the copper do not have different expansion and contraction ratios, ok and the temps on the processors dont go up and down either
well on mine they dont, because i picked thermal stability over unnessisary cooling.
does anyone concider that these are actually 2 sliding surfaces , in a molecular sence?
sooo, there is just more to think about than clamping it down to a heater and seeing how it works today.
my now finished mini tube of AS5 , which is an real actual original, that actually has some silver in it
will need to be replaced too.
but , the wierd thing is nothing i have used it on has had to be recoated , refreshed or Changes in temperatures over time. so it is used up, but everything it was used on is still doing exactly what it did the day after it was put on. How many could do that , and beat it by a few degrees? that is what i want to know.
it is always the "new" stuff that is the "best" stuff, as so was AS5 when it was new.
T I M E for a water cooler or a Dry ice or LN even is meaningless, they will have stuff re-aranged every 2 weeks. for me i was working on One and Done. and AS5 as bad as it might be in numbers, was , is and i depend on it being one and done over time. some of the thinner stuff, didnt last time, although it was better at first.
Like epsilon said, thin is what you want, and then again IF thin is what you GET, there is huge differances in tops of processors and bottoms of heatsincs, while thin is in, some of the heatsync processor combos dont MEET in as many places, as a stripped, lapped, re-straightened, or even cap removed processor. Sometimes you have to concider also the 2 surfaces that your trying to mate, and how well they actuall do metal to metal, or metal to silicon, or metal to ceramic, or whatever it is. cause it wont be all the same for everyone or everything. sometimes it doesnt even take magnification to see how wacked the stuff is.
there still exists old schoolers who would rather user the old white silicon, but how and where and why might be just as important as thier staunch unchanging stance on it still working just about as good.
you should see how screwed up some of the surfaces are that are trying to be mated, even on $300 processors with a screwey cap soldered on, to $129 heat syncs that look like they were finished with 120grit. makes a big difference if a bit of dust under there or a "deep fat fryer" would be the best heat conduction, when the "metal dont meet the road".
then the Application method, and curing and all that stuff, further extends the endless discussions about the stuff.
a Line, a grain of rice drop, a BB of it in the middle, YA right, in some perfect world these methods will work, with a perfect crank down, and some appropriate heat sync. but in the real world of people stuffing heatsics on while upside down in dark resesses of a case (vrses on some cute horizontal bench display) crasy clips, clamps and screws on the back. the reality of the par instalation of a heatsync and even the vertical pressure on the sync the mount and the board, differs greatly.
no everyone has thier motherboard in a lucite case on the top of thier workbench
but lots of them have a 2LB heatsync Bowing the motherboard, and dangling sideways. ahh bench meets reality again.
----sorry no adds here for the new stuff either ----
