Arctic Silver vs Ceramique

Otaku Punk · 17 Feb 2006 at 15:01

I've always thought that arctic silver was the best TIM you could get, and upon searching for some i noticed that arctic also do a product called ceramique. Which would be the best TIM?

Wyvern971 · 17 Feb 2006 at 15:58

for what application?

From what I remember:

for air cooled Arctic Silver,

for Sub-Zero (e.g. Prometia Vapo etc) Ceramique

Borden · 17 Feb 2006 at 16:47

I use Ceramique with air cooling and it's fine. I get idle temps of around 29C and load temps of around 39C.

EDIT: That's with my current overclock and 1.55v going through it.

sagaboy2 · 17 Feb 2006 at 17:02

The silver is used on large things like a CPU where it doesnt matter that much if you get TIM over the edge of the CPU.

Ceramique is used on small things like RAM chips, and GPU's so if you get the TIM over the edge of the chip it doesnt short things out.

Well thats how I see it anyway.

Both are as good as each other.

daven1986 · 17 Feb 2006 at 18:53

i use ceramique on my cpu and it is good, temps are 27ish idle, and 34ish load.

james.miller · 17 Feb 2006 at 18:55

ceramique and as5 are so similar in performance that it really doesnt matter which one you use. I only use ceramique because there's *no* chance of shorting any components or traces with it.

ukdave · 17 Feb 2006 at 21:10

AS5 is the prefered option for positive celcius values.

Ceramique for negative temperatures, but it is specefically designed for temperatures lower than -50c that AS5 cannot handle.

AS5 can be capacitive and hence could cause a short (very low chance), where as Ceramique simply cannot due to the fact it contains no metals.