im just curious really im building a new machine and have been looking at some alternatives to improve heat transport away from the CPU, GPU etc i was looking at thermal pastes and was wondering why no one makes a silver based paste. with silver being the most (affordable) conductive substance would it not be far better to use that? my chemistry is a little outdated (and mostly forgotten tbh) and i know silver nitrate is corrosive (not the best idea on a CPU) but arn't there any other Silver based fluid compounds which would improve on modern thermal paste which have a more neutral PH? as an after thought, why dont they make silver heat sinks?
I hate to tell you, but you're a little late on that front - Arctic Silver has been around for many years now. Most manufacturers have moved on to either cheaper compounds (99.99% of users won't care about the difference) or they've got their hands on fancy ceramic materials with better thermal properties to suspend in their thermal goop.
i thought it was really odd that no one had done it before seems so obviouse just as an addition, what about using diamond powder?
Yeah diamond powder has been done before by modders. IIRC it didn't improve the results that much per cost ratio.
i cant say for sure, but i thought it actually did improve significantly over arctic silver, and a small amount of diamond powder wasnt really too expensive...i may be off though. as far as silver heatsinks, that for sure wouldn't be worth the cost/extra performance...in addition to other issues with silver being...silver off topic @ krikkit bout to give me pc another go at a new oc...see if i can take back the trig/krikkit super pi title
One of the most popular at the moment is Arctic Cooling MX-3; their Arctic Silver is 40% cheaper and holds against it and the competition quite well (only in extreme overclocking the MX-3 is preferred since the conductive characteristics are maintained further on).
He's right, I make a poor heatsink. My thermal performance is questionable at best and I tend to fart when stressed.
Gold is even better; I've seen and sat in cars with the fabric of the interior replaced with woven gold; it was awesome!!! Better than Faberge eggs (to see).
Good luck to you sir! Do you live in a chav's fantasy dreamland? I'd rather just have nice leather. Save the gold for the bullion market.
Right; like a real Englishman. Here, something for you; Bentley from Mansory. It is called Vitesse Rose.
She'd probably also love your avatar? On topic, diamond paste is apparantly extremely good and can be had for about £30?
That's probably because there isn't much point in using anything more conductive than Copper, since that's what most of the high end heatsinks are made from.
No, it's the most efficient thermal conductor known to man, although it is an electical insulator, if that's what you mean. Interestingly graphite, while chemically identical, is actually the opposite - it's a thermal insulator but a weak electrical conductor. Oh, and it's Carbon by the way, not Carbonium
