| Let
me just start the benchmarking page with what equipment I’m
using and how I’m doing a fair “shootout”. For this
shootout to be fair is, I used the same equipment and measurement
techniques for all products. I am using the socket temps, not the
temps on die I’m sure that there’s a group of people who
think I’m stupid, and probably fairly so, however, with this
being a shootout, I am merely keeping all the other variables the
same, so the test bed is fair. If you have an issue with how I’m
testing things or getting temps, do your own shootout. I’m trying
to show the performance difference between products. Not how live
up to everyone else’s standards. So take this with a bit of
salt that your temperatures probably will vary, however the performance
between the products will still be present.
I’m using a Barton 2500+ at stock speeds,
on a Swiftech 5000A water block, along with a Swiftech MCP300 pump,
a Swiftech Rad676, and a Swiftech MCW50 on my GF4 TI 4400. I recorded
the temperature of my CPU with Gigabyte’s Easy Tune 4 (again,
I used it for all of the thermal paste, so it would be a fair comparison).
For the ambient temperature, I used a pretty standard thermometer.
Again, I was trying to control all the variables the same, so I
could see how each thermal paste performed. To get the CPU to full
load, I ran Folding at home for a minimum of 3 hours, probably a
bit of overkill, but it was just to make sure I was going to get
the most accurate temperatures.
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Idle |
Load |
Ambient |
Delta
Idle |
Delta
Load |
| OCZ
Ultra II |
73 |
80 |
66 |
7 |
14 |
| AS
Ceramique |
75 |
78 |
70 |
5 |
8 |
| Arctic
Silver 5 |
69 |
72 |
67 |
2 |
6 |
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| But
what about Nanotherm PCM+ I hear you asking. Well, when I had first
started testing these thermal pastes, PCM+ happened to be the first
one up. After a while, it started to corrode my block, very uncool.
Needless to say, I didn’t get the temperatures once I found
that out. Last I had heard, Nanotherm was still investigating the
cause of the corrosion. It was thought that it was a chemical reaction
with something that manufacturers were putting on the copper, as PCM+
itself shouldn’t cause such a reaction. |
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