Re: Anybody not impressed with Arctic Silver?

You might lower about 1 to 4 degrees C with artic silver but not more. Do
not expect miracles. Artice silver is great but again, all it does is help
in the transfer of heat. If your cooling system in the first place is not
efficient, then artic silver might be a wast of money.

"John Doe" <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns973BCAD15536follydom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Heatsink grease. Does Arctic Silver make that much of a difference?
> Anybody had boring results? Any specific recommendations on type and
> packaging? Specifically, I'd like to cool my AMD Athlon XP 3000+. It
> runs at about 50°C most of the time, sometimes above 55°C. I'm not
> used to that amount of heat.
>
> Thank you.


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