A test made by the russian OC team itc/modlabs; AS5 and ASC are identical in performance, and are, and AS5 is terribly overpriced for the performace it offers:

results

crappy thermal interface

Tital Nano Blue 59
Panasonic 58.5
KPT-8 (reference) 56.6

decent thermal interface

Data Cooler 57
Titan TTG S-104 , S-103 56.7
Pasta Siliconowa 56.6
Zalman CSL 850 56.5
Noctua 56.5
Stars Silver 56.5
Stars 700/Aero 700 56
GeIL GL-TCP1b 55.6
Thermopox 55.6
КПТ-8(BeO) 55.5
Sil more 55.5
Shin-Etsu(white) 55.5
W.P. 55.5
STARS (white, soft pack) 55.5
AKT-842 55
Fanner 420 55
Koolance 55

good thermal interface

Arctic Alumina 55.5
Arctic Silver-3 54.6
AOS 54.5
DC-340 54.5
Asetek 54.5
Arctic Silver-5 53.5
Arctic Ceramique 53.5

great thermal interface

Apus TMG 301 52.5
Gigabyte 52.5
Titan Nano Grease TTG-G30010 52.5
GFC-M1 D90T8-010 52.5
Shin-Etsu MicroSi G-751 52

outstanding thermal interface

Arctic Cooling MX-1 51.5
Shin-Etsu MicroSi MPU-3.7 50.5
Coollaboratory Liquid Pro 50


teh numbers repesent the temps... lower is beter....


This post has been edited by lolhalol: May 12 2007, 10:05 AM

Does those gigabyte thermal paste they meant are those provided when we buy Gigabyte CPU/VGA coolers?

Wow..the Arctic Cooling MX-1 is categorized as outstanding..I would love to try that out..And the AS5 is only known as good which is 2 level behind..hmm...

Any source for the review?And where is chill factor..lol..

i m not sure.... maybe coz i canbt find any thing on their site bout a themalpaste..

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Added on May 12, 2007, 10:13 amteh source link is borken...im looking for it now... this is posted over at xs... so im not bullshiting ...

This post has been edited by lolhalol: May 12 2007, 10:13 AM

Dont worry, i am not saying you are BSing..I just wanted to see the review for myself..lol..Should be something good coming..Time to get myself the MX-1..

hehe .. teh review is in russion... lolz... so i dun think can read it anyway,...lolz...have to use translater....lolz

ya i tout some one doing bulk on that thing rite

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/445940

here it is

This post has been edited by emilz: May 12 2007, 10:56 AM

bro is coolermaster thermal paste guds??????

i tink wan to buy wan soon....

oh snap, now i regret finishing two tubes of my MX-1 thermal paste on heatsinking the transistors.

Incredible, i am always a fanboy of Arctic Cooling's MX-1, but i never knew the difference between it and the AS5 was so significant.

1 question here is the AS5 fully burnt-in? i doubt its burnt-in

i guess same goes to the rest of the thermal paste, they r not bed in yet... most of these paste need at least 200 hours of bedding time... i've seen this review before over xs too... mx-1 does get very good results from a lot reviews, n they do perform better after bedding in... best of all, it's conductivity is zero... so messy guy like me no need worry... just apply n no need to wipe away the excessive 1.. hahaha...

mx-1 compare to as-5 ?...i heard that as-5 is conductive right?..

AS5 is not conductive

oh..then if compare mx-1 and as-5..which one perform better?..coz the price for both is almost the same..

According to their site, AS5 is slightly conductive and advised not to come in contact with electrical components.

do u think this thread belongs in the thermal paste discussion thread?

no, it is not conductive. but it is slightly capacitive. hence that advice.

For me, CM's thermal paste is a big nono. For that price, i would rather spend abit more and get the AS5 or MX-1 which is proven to be good. Tested CM Nano last time (which was quite expensive as i remember and the performance is not that for off from normal white paste...

Time to get the MX-1 myself...lol..Any idea where i can get it in LYP?

wow
the result make my eyes blink blink

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Added on May 12, 2007, 10:13 pmerm.. i guess not.
its seems like to sharing a reviewed result than a discussion thread.
isnt it?

This post has been edited by storm88: May 12 2007, 10:13 PM

below is a picture taken from factory showroom while i was in china.

all 3 products in the pictures have the same thermal compound, in 3different branding & packing.

left japanese market,

middle, taiwan & china

right MX-1

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we have middle & right gonna test it out with my frend's new rig