Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? 788
strider69666 writes "Over at Overclockers.com they have a review of several thermal compounds that claim to have 99% pure silver content. 'I decided to test Arctic Silver 5, Arctic Silver 3, OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver Compound, and CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease. This test was not conducted to test performance, but rather to determine if these compounds have Silver as an ingredient.' Using a professionally mixed testing solution, they found that several brands do not, in fact, contain any silver at all! So, are you getting what you are paying for?"
bah (Score:5, Funny)
In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones.
No (Score:5, Funny)
Silver? (Score:3, Funny)
Who cares? (Score:4, Funny)
no - he got it wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
thank you, thank you. i'll be here all night. tip your wait staff.
Ok (Score:5, Funny)
o boy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So.... (Score:3, Funny)
Dirty Harry?
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, the joys of advertising... (Score:1, Funny)
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you? Oh wait...
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the 80's)
I want to speak to the manager! (Score:5, Funny)
I want a free goddam coffee and an apple pie right now or I'll sue!
silver crayons (Score:2, Funny)
A Bugg
Overclocked... (Score:5, Funny)
You're telling me a site on overclocking [overclockers.com] has to cut off the user limit? Their servers aren't overclocked enough to handle it?
Oh yeah? Well a TRUE Alchemist... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Requires alchemy(2) and goldsmithing(10), fire crystal + silver ingot + beeswax = thermal paste
Re:OCZ has announced a recall. (Score:3, Funny)
Translation: 0% silver by volume.
Re:RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want to speak to the manager! (Score:5, Funny)
shock and awe! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OCZ has announced a recall. (Score:5, Funny)
This is a situation where a company's extremely quick action--which is probably going to reach virtually everyone who even knows about the problem (the parent is still "above the fold" here on
Hell, I don't buy the stuff, but if I did, I'd switch to theirs on the basis of this response alone.
1. Sell bogus silver paste
2. Get exposed on Overclockers
3. Masterfully respond to problem
4. Profit!
Re:So.... (Score:3, Funny)
Dunno, they never come back.
Use Vegemite!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ok (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want to speak to the manager! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Overclocked... (Score:3, Funny)
If only the thermal paste they used had real silver in it, they would be able handle the traffic.
Damn, no silver (Score:3, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
You had HEAVY ELEMENTS? In my day, the loose clouds of interstellar gas hadn't coalesced into star systems yet. All we had were hydrogen atoms and maybe a trace of helium around Christmas!
Re:Use Vegemite!!! (Score:2, Funny)
While (Score:4, Funny)
came in wanting help getting his heatsink off.
Sure enough that baby was stuck tighter than a frogs ass. I asked "did you install this?" "yep! I
put it on with JB-WELD for a nice snug fit."
Re:Overclocking not for the serious geek (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, yeah, sure. When you put it in that light it all makes perfect sense.
KFG
I think so (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ARTICLE TEXT (Score:5, Funny)
Thermal paste is a ripoff!! (Score:4, Funny)
I mean, c'mon people! Use some logic!
For best results, put heatsinks on the fans to cool the air more. You might want to point a fan at the fan, too. Actually, if you did this enough times, you could reach absolute zero or even absolute -10.
This isn't rocket smarts, guys.
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
In my day we had nothing but the vacuum and had to wait for a universe to pop into existence before we could even begin to think about the existence of energy and matter.
Kids today
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Forget silver paste.
Try the paste made from mithril mined by the local dwarves.
Re:OCZ has announced a recall. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
i call this the "grape nuts theory".
no grapes. no nuts. grape nuts.
Reading in-between the lines of a OCZ recall. (Score:5, Funny)
It is not really OCZ's fault, we don't actually make the stuff. OCZ is a victum just like you! Someone in China did it and we couldn't have possibly known because we outsourced our quality control as well. This required us to trust a single independent lab test to be representive of the quality of all batches of OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound.
Now that we have been caught with our pants down, we have submitted a second batch to our outsourced quality control and confirmed that it is all China's fault. But we would like to point out that the compound did contain 30% silver by weight. We have reached the conclusion that this recent batch (actually, it might be multiple batchs but we can't afford to test each one to be sure) did not meet with the OCZ unenforced specifications.
Instead of giving your money back, we will define the steps below as "accepting full responsiblity" and would like to point out that we are taking legal action since it really is China's fault.
Beginning today we are issuing an incomplette recall of all full or partially used OCZ Ultra 2 (if you still have an empty OCZ Ultra 2 then your S.O.L. and get nothing).
1) The tube which now sells for $9 on NewEgg (and we would like to point out that the Tech Zone rated as cooling 2 degrees C below Arctic Silver) can be exchanged for Arctic Silver which you could have just bought for $7 -OR- you can get a OCZ heat sink that we need to get rid of anyways since it is discontinued!
But wait... there is more...
2) A one-size-fits-all T-shirt featuring the OCZ logo so you can be a walking advertizement for OCZ until it falls apart the third time you wash it. The fact that there is not the cotten/polyester blend we specified can not be OCZ's fault because after all... OCZ does not have it's own quality assurence and in the end everything is China's fault.
Oh... but wait... there is even more...
3) $10 off another of our products which also comes complette with no quality assurence!
Thank you for getting scre... doing business with OCZ. Remember, if it is not OCZ technology then you might actually be getting what you payed for.
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
I can see the imprint: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe"silver" is just the color ... (Score:4, Funny)
You know, uh, like, uh "orange" paint isn't really made from oranges, it's just that color
Yeah! that's it!
(And if you believe that
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Tomas
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
In my day all we had was this damn turtle.
Re:bah (Score:2, Funny)
Re:bah (Score:3, Funny)
>singular moment as being in a vacuum.
It is both unnatural and wrong to think of that moment at all. Go play baseball or kiss someone.
Or watch TV for a few hours. That'll even you out a bit.
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
You think a speculum exam is bad? Try working in A&E (ER to you yanks) at 4 in the morning when some chick comes in because she's lost a condom on the job and you have to dig it out from her semen-filled snatch. Eeewww.
Re:Maybe"silver" is just the color ... (Score:5, Funny)
McDonald's fault for running their friers so hot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New Egg makes the baby Jesus cry. (Score:3, Funny)
In my experience though, they tend to move fast enough that it seems to be like this:
Your order is at Step 1: Validating Order
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 2: Verifying payment information
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 2: Verifying payment information
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 6: The FedEx guy is about to ring your*DING DONG*
double bah (Score:5, Funny)
You had a turtle? We plunged forever into the nothingness of pure void. Uphill. Both ways.
That's not all... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, my werewolf hunting days were over.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice... (Score:5, Funny)
Nice work.
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No (Score:3, Funny)
Girl Scout cookies aren't made from real girl scouts either.
Re:No (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a Nigerian exporter who promised OCZ they had MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of unclaimed silver they need help get out of the country...
Re:invoice? (Score:4, Funny)
Re: double bah (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nice... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No (Score:1, Funny)