Product description
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Thermal Compound 3.5 grams (THP-AS)
Set Contains:
3.5g of Thermal Paste
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it's 99.9% silver.
No it's not. It's "made with 99.9% silver". That doesn't mean that silver comprises 99.9% of the material. If that was the case, then it would be a solid chunk of metal rather than a paste.
I think they calucated the RRP using a mixture of current GPU markup pricing mixed the current rate of inflation :-)
I got a large 30g tube of GD900 from Aliexpress a while back and was blown away by how well it performs. It's just as good as the AS5 and NT-H1 I have, but you get 30g instead of 3.5g for even less than this costs.
The "The Tech Yes Man", Brian is one of Best PC Tech YouTubers out there
He's not my favorite cup of tea, but quite a few of his videos have great info and I check in from time to time. I can see why people like him though. Good energy.
Yeah True Good Energy, Some of his PC Part cleaning videos can come off as Borderline Cringeworthy at first but I managed to get a old Dell Haswell Based Xeon Server working again with his Brake Cleaner Method after Isopropyl Alcohol and the Air Compressor once failed me :-) Havent tired putting a PSU in a 15L Ultrasonic Cleaner yet :-)
Some things he does are certainly questionable but he's no Linus. The only good part about that show is Anthony.
@Clear: Linus is the only one out of all the usual suspects I had to unsubscribe from. The content became unbearable for me around a year ago.
Gamer's Nexus puts me to sleep, Linus/Brian/Jayz target a younger audience and the cringe is a bit too much for me.
For me - Hardware Unboxed is 👌
I also like Digital Foundry and Ars Technica. Can you recommend some others? There's another Australian guy who looks really clean cut and hits the gym who I've seen in a few videos but I never subscribed and can't remember his channel name.
@studentl0an: Steve might put you to sleep, but he's one of the battlers out there looking after consumers by keeping manufacturers honest.
There's another Australian guy who looks really clean cut and hits the gym who I've seen in a few videos but I never subscribed and can't remember his channel name.
Probably Optimum Tech
@MagnamoniousRex: That will just make me goto sleep 1.25x faster lol
I watch every video these days at 1.25x, can get in 0.25x more videos per evening!
I forgot Jarrod's Tech and Dave 2D as regulars I tune into. LGR, Phil's Computer Lab and 8-bit guy also for retro stuff.
@studentl0an: LGR Thrifts (Awesome) - Clint with his offering to the lucky rock outside his local Goodwill hoping to get some Retro Computing or Wood Grain Tech Goodness :-)
@studentl0an: Gamers Nexus would be so good if he would just shut up and get to the point. He has a good video about AIO orientation but ffffffffuuu he spends 16 minutes banging on about it. Another guy uploaded a video and literally showed how to do it properly in 20 seconds.
Hardware Canucks, Bitwit and Paul's Hardware is worth looking at.
If you're into the more niche mini PCs and handhelds then ETA Prime is another to check out. His AMD SFFs and emulation builds are always interesting.
@Clear: Thanks for the suggestions, I'm subbed to all already though :)
I don't think I've seen a Kyle/Paul video in a while. I guess they may have had a falling out? I hope it's not due to Kyle and Wifeysauce's split..
You may like 'The Retro Future' if you're into handhelds.
@Clear: EDIT: I was wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUfiXOGDdy4
Good to know they're still mates and keep in touch.
wow. thanks for sharing .
def buying some
30gs is overkill
Not for me. It's 10x better value and lasts forever in a syringe.
fun fact: Mayonnaise beats nth1 and just gets beaten by AS5. For a well performing paste grab marstergel maker or kpx, for a general use paste grab Arctic mx4/mx5.
How's that mayonnaise doing after a year?
GD900 is holding up fine in all my PC's. If I ever manage to run out of it, I'll be buying more rather than wasting money on thermal paste that is 10x as expensive for maybe 2% difference.
this or mx 4?
MX-4 is better
Thanks OP bought one
I was using this all the time. But then since I got noctua ones with the cooler, switched to that. Based on the results on toms, 3 degree difference is still considerable.
Thermal paste is a small investment that will last you a decade. Dont skimp on a few dollars.
If I can vouch for this paste: I recently used it on a 2020 intel macbook air with a copper shim to connect the heatsink and cpu. Yes, the shim did most of the work, may tutorials recommended a more expensive paste, but using this I got a better than predicted performance boost.
tl:dr; its good and cheap
I believe this is conductive so if it get in the wrong place could cause damage. I thould a non conductive one offering same performance would be a safer bet.
"Not Electrically Conductive: Arctic Silver 5 was formulated to conduct heat, not electricity."
https://asset.conrad.com/media10/add/160267/c1/-/en/00015035…
AFAIK there is no conductive paste type TIM.
Electrically conductive "liquid metal" TIM is applied using a spreader to make a layer that barely exists - so it doesn't go everywhere.
If you rarely change components buy Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut or a similar performance product. I don't see any point in having years of higher temperatures ( meaning noise and lower performance) to save ten or twenty bucks, you may as well use the best. If you change components a lot it will be pricy.
If your happy with liquid metal (and most people should use it IMO, it's not that hard) I use Coolaboratory Liquid Extreme.
The newest formula. The previous formulas are named Pro and Ultra but I think but I may have mixed the names up. It's about a third the price of Conductonaut and lasts a long time - only the newest formula though, the previous ones do not last as long.
wtf are they getting that RRP from?