[defuz3d]

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Following up on our Thermal Compound Roundup - February 2011 and Thermal Compound Roundup - March 2011 reviews, we are adding five more thermal compounds to our roundup for a total of 15 different models from Antec, Arctic Silver, Biostar, Cooler Master, Coolink, Deepcool, Evercool, Gelid, Noctua, Prolimatech, Spire, Thermalright, Xigmatek, and Zalman. In this review we will see if certain products are superior to others.

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Quite an interesting article. Such a big difference between Prolimatech and Thermalright's Chill Factor paste, wouldn't have thought there would be such a vast thermal range.

 

[Razi3l]

Nice. I need to buy me some new paste.. I only have some MX-2 or 3 and some Chill factor 2 left.. :/

 

[aksthem1]

That's a terrible review and testing methodology.

 

[Dillmiester]

Yes it is you need atleast 3 remounts of each paste to be accurate.

 

[TFL Replica]

No way does AS5 beat GC extreme.

 

[Norlig]

I had only seen 2 of those thermal compounds before

 

[aksthem1]

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Originally Posted by Dillmiester;13109202
Yes it is you need atleast 3 remounts of each paste to be accurate.

Yeah, to minimize any margin of error, but I didn't read that they did that in their test.

They also couldn't control the temperatures very well. Sometimes out of your hands though.

 

[OutlawII]

Im really starting to think we cant trust half these reveiw sites anymore,yesterday we had a site testing 3 gpu vs 2gpu now today we have this test. Also where is the IC diamond,no mention of it at all in this test?

 

[FXTOi7]

JOKE review....

no way is AS5 that good compared to others.... no to mention the best of the best are missing.

I call BS

 

[FXTOi7]

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Originally Posted by OutlawII;13109315
Im really starting to think we cant trust half these reveiw sites anymore,yesterday we had a site testing 3 gpu vs 2gpu now today we have this test. Also where is the IC diamond,no mention of it at all in this test?

HAHAH want to know why it was 3 vs 2? becuase both costs around 1000$. it was a 1000$ worth of ATI vs 1000$ worth of Nvidia.

 

[ikem]

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Im really starting to think we cant trust half these reveiw sites anymore,yesterday we had a site testing 3 gpu vs 2gpu now today we have this test. Also where is the IC diamond,no mention of it at all in this test?

that was a review of a $1000 gpu solution... u can buy 3 amd gpus for $1000... and only 2 nvidia.

back on track. Yes the accuracy of the review is possibly skewed without multiple testing.

 

[Coolking23]

The Prolimatech results look good.

 

[OutlawII]

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Originally Posted by mikepahl318;13109352
HAHAH want to know why it was 3 vs 2? becuase both costs around 1000$. it was a 1000$ worth of ATI vs 1000$ worth of Nvidia.

Still worthless reveiws!

 

[Kaze105]

Disappointed that they didnt test MX-3.

 

[X-Nine]

Skinnee's roundup is far better. He does his homework and knows how to test this stuff.
http://skinneelabs.com/2011-tim-results/3/

Indigo and Prolimatech seem to be the crowned leaders.

 

[ColdRush]

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Originally Posted by aksthem1;13109193
That's a terrible review and testing methodology.

I agree.

 

[JedixJarf]

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Originally Posted by mikepahl318;13109337
JOKE review....

no way is AS5 that good compared to others.... no to mention the best of the best are missing.

I call BS

Well sir it actually is. Just because its not "cool" to use it anymore on this forum doesn't mean it wont actually cool as well.

 

[Zulli85]

I tend to think I cannot trust a review site that can't control ambient temps at all. The review and testing isn't thorough at all either. Anyone can slap some compound on a CPU and check its temperature. Its just not good enough.

 

[cory1234]

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Originally Posted by XNine;13109462
Skinnee's roundup is far better. He does his homework and knows how to test this stuff.
http://skinneelabs.com/2011-tim-results/3/

Indigo and Prolimatech seem to be the crowned leaders.

A few of the pastes he used were older products. For instance, he used Arctic Cooling MX-2 when AC MX-4 (not 3) has been out.

 

[staryoshi]

OCZ Freeze is my TIM of choice these days. Where dat? Also, AS5 does not offer performance comparable to modern TIM. I did not glean any useful info from this article