Re: [Amps] Arctic Silver with and without silver

["Carl" <km1h@jeremy.qozzy.com>]

Such as beryllium oxide, just don't sniff it.
That's the stuff used for thermally conducted tubes such as the 8873

Carl

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From: "Kim Elmore" <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 9:23 AM
To: "Mike Waters" <mikewate@gmail.com>
Cc: <Gary@ka1j.com>; <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Arctic Silver with and without silver

> Not necessarily: some ceramics are extremely thermally conductive.
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as 
> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> > On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:58, Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just ordered Arctic Silver thermal grease from Newark. What I actually
> > received was labeled "Arctic Alumina", "Premium Ceramic Polysynthetic
> > Thermal Compound, By Arctic Silver". It's white, and not silver-colored
> > like some kind of thermal grease that I had in the past. It was
> > drop-shipped from MCM Electronics, and no mention was made of the above
> > details when I ordered it on Newark's main web site.
> >
> > According to what I found on a couple of computer overclocking web sites,
> > the thermal conductivity of Arctic Silver 5 (containing actual powdered
> > silver) and what I received above (with no silver), is the same. I don't
> > know how that can be the true, since silver is so much more thermally
> > conductive than anything else except copper. Anyone have any experience 
> > or
> > thoughts on this?
> >
> > 73, Mike
> > www.w0btu.com
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Gary Smith <Gary@ka1j.com> wrote:
> > [Subject was: Re: [Amps] Astron Power Supply replies]
> >
> > > Mention was made of Arctic Silver; I have some Arctic Silver 5 & some of
> > > their Ceramique which I too used in overclocking computers. I can 
> > > certainly
> > > remove & replace the heat sink compound with this, not a big job and 
> > > using
> > > it did lower my core temps on the computer processor.
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