Carbon Black Thermal Pastes

Dom · Aug 1, 2003, 04:19 AM

Any of you who have ever even thought about overclocking are probably familiar with thermal paste and its function. Lots of OEM or low end cooling setups use either a thermal interface pad (TIM) or that white goop you get at radio shack. The fact is that neither of those does a great job of transferring heat from the processor to the heatsink. While they work ok, they don’t exactly assist Moore’s law in fulfilling itself by limiting clock speeds with heat. Yeah, CPUs are still getting faster, but one needs only to look at overclocking results with stock cooling versus those achieved with a good heatsink and good thermal paste to realize that better cooling = faster computers. Heck, if we’d stuck with the tiny old anodized fanless heatsinks on 486es, we might not be past 1GHz yet.

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BWX · Aug 1, 2003, 12:03 PM

http://www.zzz.com.ru/art174.html is a dead link for me?

**Edit- It works now.

WyreTheWolf · Aug 1, 2003, 05:10 PM

I wouldnt mind testing a sample..... If it can out perform just about everything on the market, and it is cheap... TIME TO SPEND MORE MONEY on the HSF

Aug 1, 2003, 04:19 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Carbon Black Thermal Pastes Any of you who have ever even thought about overclocking are probably familiar with thermal paste and its function. Lots of OEM or low end cooling setups use either a thermal interface pad (TIM) or that white goop you get at radio shack. The fact is that neither of those does a great job of transferring heat from the processor to the heatsink. While they work ok, they don’t exactly assist Moore’s law in fulfilling itself by limiting clock speeds with heat. Yeah, CPUs are still getting faster, but one needs only to look at overclocking results with stock cooling versus those achieved with a good heatsink and good thermal paste to realize that better cooling = faster computers. Heck, if we’d stuck with the tiny old anodized fanless heatsinks on 486es, we might not be past 1GHz yet. Read the rest at ZZZ.com.ru

Aug 1, 2003, 12:03 PM	#2
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	http://www.zzz.com.ru/art174.html is a dead link for me? *Edit- It works now. __________________ Last edited by BWX; Aug 1, 2003 at 02:28 PM.*

Aug 1, 2003, 05:10 PM	#3
WyreTheWolf Wolfish Bastard Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cave; Ozark Mountains Posts: 2,110 Rep Power: 0	I wouldnt mind testing a sample..... If it can out perform just about everything on the market, and it is cheap... TIME TO SPEND MORE MONEY on the HSF