Arctic Silver 5 (3.5 gram) tube

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Ben, this will never fit in my arm!

but it will fit up your cornholio

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No buy, silicone/vacuum grease is fine and costs little.

YANBFB

But this has the soft rubber tip for easy insertion.

True #2, but as hard as I can squint I still can't see the numbers on this thermometer.

Troll #4 is mistaken, while it isn't necessarily important to have silver in your heatsink grease, it is important that it be a synthetic compound instead of silicone because the latter separates, needing reapplied on today's small dies with high thermal density.

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Arctic Silver is no better than other thermal compounds and won't get you even an extra degree cooler, suckers.

Yesbuy takes a long time to ship....

"Arctic Silver is no better than other thermal compounds and won't get you even an extra degree cooler, suckers. "

Untrue if it is applied properly.

free shipping is great...if you don't mind waiting 3 weeks for it. thats how long it took to get my 6 dollar mx2 grease last fall from yesbuy

danpi wrote:

Sorry #6, your chemistry is woefully lacking. Silicone vacuum grease is pure polymethylsiloxane, a pure material, or sometimes a polyaryl siloxane derivative. The thickness/viscosity depends on the degree of polymerization. There can be no separation because there is nothing to separate and the polysiloxanes *are* in fact synthetic. To get you started look at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone Sorry Charlie, we're looking for good taste, not taste good.

Too bad you don't know WTF you're talking about. The separation is between the oil and the solids, not the silicone oil itself, and over years of use anyone who had dealt with both paste formulations knows this. A grease like AS5 using a polyol ester blend is superior to polysiloxane alone because thermal cycling does not pump out as much oil long term.

Synthetic is used as it was in the marketing to denote a different formulation than silicone oil which is so common there is no need to dig into it's synthetic origins. Even so, instead of using the same terms the grease manufacturers use, perhaps I should have written proprietary instead of synthetic.

A huge 22 gram tube of Arctic Silver brand Céramique is just under $8 shipped from bestbyte (about $1.40 per 3.5 grams).

Search for CMQ-22G at the link below:
http://bestbyte.net/

a 3.5gram tube (if applied correctly) should last you for about 5 applications, if I'm not mistaken.

bolton wrote:

a 3.5gram tube (if applied correctly) should last you for about 5 applications, if I'm not mistaken.

Depends on what you're using it on, but for PC parts it should last a lot longer than 5 apps unless your heatsink surface looks like the grand canyon.

With properly machined parts, a 1/2 grain of rice sized blob is optimal. That much will not cover the entire surface like frosting a cake, but will spread out over time.

I just use Desitin... same stuff we put on the baby's butt when he gets a diaper rash...

I was going to post the same thing as #8. The company acts like it is some sort of miracle thermal paste.

So is it wrong for me to use Jif crunchy peanut butter for my heat-sink paste?

say no to Yesbuy!

Horrible company to order from.

#19 I must have been very lucky! Ordered a pack of two using PayPal and it was delivered 4 days later. Maybe the PP payment helped or maybe they got their act together recently. My first order with them.

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