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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Greatly lowers temperatures and won't short circuitsMar 08, 2009
By Aaron702
I recently bought this to replace the Dell heat sink compounds on my portable computer as I upgraded my processor.
One has to be careful to not use electrically-conductive thermal grease on chips which have small circuit features immediately on or next to them. While my processor module was completely immune to short circuits (Intel's packaging insulates the entire module, allowing electrically-conductive materials to be used), both my graphics chip and a bus chip were not as well designed, and since both also shared the heat piping system for internal cooling, I had to assure they continued to vent properly.
Fortunately, after some visiting to different websites, I found this to be the best to try. I was very impressed! My graphics chip now runs about 20F degrees cooler than before and the whole bottom of the portable feels much cooler.
Although I would recommend the electrically-conductive Arctic Silver for chips which have appropriate insulation (due to the slightly better heat conductivity it has), without a doubt I heartily recommend this compound for all other uses, and if you must, this would work fine on processor modules, as well.
Buy this and you won't be sorry.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Great temps once you get it applied.Jan 11, 2007
By Brian A. Spindler
"spind0c"
It can be tricky to spread, but if you follow the new instructions and just apply a ribbon it is pretty easy.
Droped my temps 3 deg c from AS-5
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Special non-conductive thermal compoundDec 22, 2008
By Nathan Beauchamp
"ConsumerAdvocate"
I'm a bigger fan of Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound for cooling CPUs, but Ceramique has it's place. The nice thing about it is that it is 100% non conductive, which means you can be messy with it without worries about shorting out your board. This is really nice if you're applying it to things other than your CPU (like the mosfets on a motherboard). I don't think it is as effective as AS5 at dropping temps, but for what it's intended for, it is really useful.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Easy to use, made a 5-7% reduction in core tempFeb 13, 2010
By Heath L. Buckmaster
"_heath_"
This product gets 5 stars from me.
In order to test how well the product performed I installed a new heat sink to a Core i7-920 with no changes (in other words, I used the bonding material that was already included on the heat sink). I ran for several weeks doing various core temp tests and the lowest temperature I could get on the four cores was 39C. This isn't bad, but I wanted to see what the Arctic Silver could do for me.
I removed the heat sink, cleaned it using the Artic Silver guidelines: no lint wipes (they recommend coffee filters), and making sure it was cleaned with alcohol. Next I tempered the heat sink by putting a small pea-size drop of arctic silver onto the heat sink and rubbing it in with a finger in plastic wrap. Once again, wiping off with no lint wipe, but no further cleaning (you want the product to get into the microscopic cracks).
Next - cleaned the processor and removed all the old bonding material. Put a thin line across the processor as described (depends on the type of CPU and direction of the cores so make SURE you visit the artic silver website and review their PDF instructions for your processor), and then seated the heat sink again.
Here's where you need to be patient. This product will take some time to reach "true bonding" (my term). That means you will need to put it through a number of cycles of high heat and no heat to get it to reach 100%. I decided to run BOINC half a day then turn the computer off for several hours. Repeat process over and over.
I have seen immediate core temperature drops of 5-7C with this product that will continue to improve over the next week. Now my cores are running between 35-40C at no load vs. 39-45C with the previous bonding material.
If you are going to be overclocking or playing hardcore gaming or video rendering, highly recommend that you get this product and pair it with an excellent heat sink.
5 stars.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
This is what I have found.Jan 17, 2011
By Harry
From doing some reading on thermal conductive compounds, this is what I have concluded.
If you purchase a good quality thermal grease, there is no significant difference in their ability to conduct heat.
I did more research on what makes a good quality thermal grease, than I did on the various greases that are available. When I came to Ceramique, and it met my needs, I decided to purchase it, and looked no farther. You can find your own reasons for buying one compound over another, but this is why I purchased Arctic Silver Ceramique.
Arctic Silver says Ceramique will never dry out. It says that about its other thermal greases also. I'll take that to mean six years at least, maybe much longer. I've read that some thermal pads can dry out. I haven't read that any quality greases dry out.
Ceramique is not capacitively conductive. If a grease is capacitively conductive, and you get some on a high frequency circuit, as in computers, it could cause a short.
Ceramique does not have silicon in it. I think it's been 30 years since I tried, but I never found a good way to clean silicon. If you ever have to remove the thermal grease, silicon grease could be a real headache.
Another important factor to consider about thermal grease, when applying it to a CPU, is how well it will spread on the CPU without getting any air in it. I did not find any useful information on the matter. If you find some such information about thermal greases, that could be an important factor in deciding which grease to use.
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