What's better?

[J.D]

AS5 or Coolaboratory Liquid Pro?.

I have both and I'm using the Liquid pro just now.

The reason I'm asking is that I only applied the Liquid Pro after I got my DFI Ultra-D as a power surge killed my bios on my old MSI Neo 4 board. The DFI has now changed my airflow which consisted of my intake at the front going through the Freezer Pro and then out the exhausts on the back of my Thermaltake Kandalf case. So the Freezer fan was facing the front of my case and the passed the intakes air through and out the exhausts.

So now the freezer pro is facing straight in the air with the DFI board and has dirupted the good airflow I had previously. This is why I can't tell what is better. Also my overclocked X1900 sits directly underneath it and even though the card spits out the hot air out the back there is still some heat that comes off the back of the card which raises right into the heatsink of the Freezer Pro. So while the Freezer Pro is pushing the air through the heatsink the hot air is rising against it.

There is just no way to compare and I was hoping that someone here could sort me out with my awkward question.

 

[james.miller]

there's nothing between thermal interfaces. You're supposed to use them only to fill the pits and groves in the imperfect surfaces of the cpu and the heatsink. Ie: so little that the layer is almost translucent - most differences observed are down to variations in the application of the compound. The only differences between them is how long they can keep performing for (which is a long time for as3/5) and the fact that liquid pro eats thru aluminium. literally.

http://frostytech.com/permalink.cfm?NewsID=46586

niiiiice.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=455080&page=2
http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=4455002&postcount=46

 

[J.D]

Thankyou very much and WOW. That Liquid Pro is getting ripped off tonight.

I just got a good stepping 3700+ San Diego delivered from an overclocker in the USA this morning so it's the perfect excuse to rip my cooler off and give it a good scrub and re-apply AS5. I hope I haven't damaged anything .

Can't wait till I overclock this single core. Hoping for 3Ghz with it. Another question. What will do me better? The dual core @ 2.8Ghz or a single core at 3Ghz?. I mainly game.

Thanks again.

 

[ih8modem]

Thankyou very much and WOW. That Liquid Pro is getting ripped off tonight.

I just got a good stepping 3700+ San Diego delivered from an overclocker in the USA this morning so it's the perfect excuse to rip my cooler off and give it a good scrub and re-apply AS5. I hope I haven't damaged anything .

Can't wait till I overclock this single core. Hoping for 3Ghz with it. Another question. What will do me better? The dual core @ 2.8Ghz or a single core at 3Ghz?. I mainly game.

Thanks again.

If the specific game makes use of multiple cores, the multi core will beat the pants off the single core. If the game is not optimised for dual core, it will be slightly slower than an equivalent single core.

So a 2.2 Ghz single core will slightly outperform a dual core 2.2Ghz.

 

[w3bbo]

So a 2.2 Ghz single core will slightly outperform a dual core 2.2Ghz.

How so? If a core is clocked at 2.2 ghz it makes no difference if its a dual or single core, the cpu is still operating at 2.2ghz.

 

[Chris Beard]

I'd imagine the dual core would be better - just because you'll be able to use the second core to offload background processes on and this should more than make up for the overhead of managing the second core... Then again they have to share the FSB and there is that overhead....

Who knows? I bet it makes so little difference it's not worth worrying about.