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Product Details
- Arctic Silver 5 3.5g is Non-electrically conductive. Will not separate, run, migrate, or bleed
- Easy to Use and Cleans heatsinks and other computer components in under a minute!
- Thermal Conductance: >350,000W/m2 °C (0.001 inch layer)
- ArctiClean 60ml kit, Includes both ArctiClean 1 (30ml) and ArctiClean 2 (30ml)
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Customer Review
A necessity if you're replacing your CPU
Arctic Silver 5 (or AS5) is the best thermal compound on the market IMHO. It's basically an essential if you're installing a new CPU. This kit is everything you need to clean your heat sink, prepare the surface of the heatsink and your CPU, and ensure that your chip functions at the coolest temps possible.If you apply the compound correctly, the result is always a 4-10c drop in CPU temperatures under load. You will not notice a huge difference at idle. The real gains in heat dissipation come when the CPU is being pushed. Also, don't trust the board maker's proprietary software to tell you what your temperatures are; download a good program like RealTemp 2.41 or Everest for free (use google to find them). Either will give you more accurate numbers than Asus PC Probe, or whatever software your board manufacturer supplies.The instructions provided with this kit are minimal (small text on the side of the bottles) and could be confusing if you've never used thermal...
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December 21, 2008
(Oak Park, IL USA) | Helpful Votes: 62 | Rating: 5
Well worth the money
Background:I have an older computer than most of the reviewers here. It's a Dell XPS400 with a 3.2GHz Pentium-D dual-core processor. These CPUs were manufactured with the older 65ns fabs, which means they consume a lot of power and generate a lot of heat. It's showing it's age now, but it's still fast enough to run Windows 7 64-bit.The Problem:Lately, I've noticed that my computer was getting louder and louder. I would rationalize it because the weather is getting warmer and I was playing some CPU intensive games. Eventually, it got to the point where it sounded like a jet engine was keeping my girlfriend from sleeping. Being the cheapskate that I am, I would rather add better cooling than to simply buy a new computer system. It then dawned to me that the computer was nearly FOUR YEARS OLD and the thermal paste had probably dried out by now. Vacuuming out and reapplying the thermal grease would be my cheapest option.The Product:I...
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June 3, 2010
(San Diego, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 25 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Includes 1 NEW 3.5g Tube of Arctic Silver 5 Premium Polysynthetic Silver Compound for cooling CPU or GPU. Each tube should provide about 20 applications.
Also includes ArctiClean Kit Unique 2-Step Process:
ArctiClean 1 Thermal Material Remover quickly emulsifies and dissolves the existing thermal grease or pad from the CPU and/or heatsink so that it can easily be removed with a clean cloth or paper towel. A few drops of ArctiClean 2 Thermal Surface Purifier and some gentle wiping then removes the remaining residue and inhibits flash corrosion on copper or aluminum. Top to learn more
Sort of overpriced kit
Arctic Silver 5 is one of THE names in thermal compound for mounting heatsinks.Not made clear in the description of this product, however, is that you're paying somewhat of a premium price for a tiny bottle of xylene cleaner (e.g., Goo Gone) and a tiny bottle of isopropyl alcohol. If you happen to have those items lying around in your cleaning arsenal, there's not much value added by this kit.It's certainly possible that if you don't have those items lying around and you don't actually have any other need of them, you might save a bit of money with this kit in that you might pay a bit more than the extra 5 or 6 bucks for a bottle of cleaner and a bottle of isopropyl alcohol. However, you'd end up with a much larger supply of those items for not a lot more money.In the end, the kit is just fine for what it is. I'm just slightly groused that the description made it seem like the added components are more exotic than they really are.
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August 26, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 3