is arctic silver termal compound conductive? [Archive]

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saaya

11-30-2002, 02:45 AM

i know that arctic silver is conductive enough to short memory on videocards, what about the termal compound?

TodB

11-30-2002, 03:41 AM

Originally posted by saaya
i know that arctic silver is conductive enough to short memory on videocards, what about the termal compound?

Well Arctic Silver and Arctic Silver Thermal Compaund are the same product....

Generally All Arctic Silver thermal Compaunds ( I, II, II ) products are conductive, only Arctic Alumina ain't conductive. :)

11-30-2002, 09:21 AM

I'll 2nd that...I use Arctic Alumina whenever I need my thermal compound to be non-conductive :)

P.S. Don't think its 100% non-conductive...but its alot less conductive than Arctic Silver ;)

Galifrey

11-30-2002, 09:31 AM

Arctic Alumina and AS3 are both non conductive, but AS3 is capacitative, so if it gets on surface mount components it can hold a potential difference when it gets dusty.

Alumina is ceramic based and doesnt have the same problem.. its no more conductive/capacitative than a ceramic chip...

KnightElite

11-30-2002, 11:21 AM

AS3 is conductive as well. A guy on hardforum put some in his ATX power plug on his motherboard to improve the contact, raised his voltage about .2V around the board.

Alumina is not conductive, as was already said. Also, Artic Silver Ceramique (their new paste, almost ready for release) is non conductive.

saaya

11-30-2002, 06:44 PM

hmmm sre you sure the compound is conductive? the compound is of two liquids, one is just like arctic silver, and the other one is a bit darker and is the glue.... couldnt it be that the glue part in the compound will stop it from beeing conductive?

well i hope not! my cpu lost 2 pins and i just glued them on yesterday....i think it dryed out enough now to test it, ill let you know :)

KnightElite

11-30-2002, 07:37 PM

By thermal compound, do you mean thermal Epoxy? If so, then yes, it is also conductive.

Galifrey

12-01-2002, 12:28 AM

Originally posted by KnightElite
AS3 is conductive as well. A guy on hardforum put some in his ATX power plug on his motherboard to improve the contact, raised his voltage about .2V around the board.

Alumina is not conductive, as was already said. Also, Artic Silver Ceramique (their new paste, almost ready for release) is non conductive.

hehe that is interesting... but why would someone try that for the first time... :D

Thats what I call xtreme :D :D :D

KnightElite

12-01-2002, 12:33 AM

He tried it because he knew that the connection was flaky. When he pushed the connector down harder, it gave better voltages. So he figured it would help to improve contact ;).

saaya

12-01-2002, 12:57 AM

ok it works!:banana: its possible to glue lost pins on the cpu with termal epoxy!:D back@ 1600mhjz, need more voltage and finish my h20 setup....:slobber: