- Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 10:29
- Reviews, Thermal Paste
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Cruise missiles don't immediately spring to mind in connection to perhaps one of the more mundane, yet very important, parts of a computer rig – the humble thermal paste. This grey paste is vital to the cool running of the CPU especially when it comes to overclocking as every single degree counts. In recent years, Arctic Silver 5 has been at the top of the ...
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- Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 18:01
- Reviews, Thermal Paste
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Creating a perfect cooling setup is often all about the cooler, chassis and fans with users spending a great deal of money to not only acquire high end heatsinks and thermal designs but also to keep the noise levels down. The little things, such as thermal paste, are often wrongly overlooked. The contact between the CPU and base of the CPU cooler is a very ...
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- Sunday, March 29, 2009, 21:00
- Reviews, Thermal Paste
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The thermal paste market is highly competitive with almost every computer component manufacturer having its own special paste. Each compound will have unique properties that decide how well it performs: burn-in time and conductivity to name but a few. In more recent times, manufacturers have moved away from using metallic particles and started to use ceramic nano-particles so as to make electrically non-conductive compounds that ...
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- Thursday, February 19, 2009, 10:20
- Reviews, Thermal Paste
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Thermal compounds are probably the most unsung hero of the computer world. For the most part, they are taken for granted and spared little thought when it comes to building a PC or choosing a new cooler. However, these small tubes of thermal compound really do contribute when it comes to cooling; after all a good contact makes all the difference. Therefore, spending a little ...
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- Monday, February 16, 2009, 20:49
- Reviews, Thermal Paste
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Today, here at Verdis Reviews, we have a product with a huge number of awards, accolades and praise. Despite not being the most glamorous part of a PC, this product is vital to the cool running of your computer. Introducing the Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound; will it be able to live up to its high reputation as one of the best thermal pastes on the ...
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