[Amps] Arctic Silver with and without silver

[Carl]

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

> Not necessarily: some ceramics are extremely thermally conductive.
>
> Kim N5OP
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>> On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:58, Mike Waters <mikewate at 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 at 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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