Thermal Compound Roundup
In the past few years, thermal compounds have undergone an evolution. I'm sure many are familiar with the basic silicon based thermal compound, also known as white goop. This quickly evolved into metal based thermal compounds, which by its namesake have a composition of metal particles. This improved the thermal conductivity, but also had the problem of being electrically conductive. Now we are at a stage where performance thermal compounds are ceramics based. Thermal conductivity has been improved even more, and don't have the problem of being electrically conductive. Most of the thermal compounds we are looking at today are ceramics based. The thermal compounds we are looking at in our mini-roundup are the Stars-700, Noctua's HT-N1, Arctic Silver's Ceramique, Tuniq's TX-2 and OCZ's Freeze.
@ circuitREMIX
Monday Web Reviews:
HARDWARE
WD Caviar and RE2 GreenPower 1TB Hard Drives @ HotHardware.com
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Roundup @ [H]
ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GX2 Graphics Card
Asus EN8800GT TOP Review @ OCC
Intel E8500 Core2 Duo CPU Review
NVIDIAs 9800 GX2 The Week That Was
XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI and XFX 9800GX2 Review
Mushkin XP2 8000 Redline 2 x 2GB DDR2 Review @ OCC
MSI P35 Platinum Combo @ HotHardware.com
EVGA NVIDIA 790i SLI Ultra / 9800GX2 1GB Review
OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066 2 x 2 GB Review @ OCC
Kingston HyperX 2GB PC3-14400 DDR3-1800 Review @ ASE Labs
GIGABYTE DES and ASUS EPU Tested
XFX nForce 790i Ultra Motherboard Preview @ [H]
GeForce 9800 GX2 in Quad SLI Tested
nForce 780i Duel - ASUS vs. XFX @ Bootdaily.com
Antec P180 Enclosure Review
Peripherals
Zalman ZM-RS6F USB Theater Surround Headphones Review
Samsung SyncMaster 2243BW 22" Wide Screen LCD @ HotHardware.com
SteelSeries Ikari Optical and Laser Mice
Saitek Cyborg 5.1 Headset Review @ OCC
Samsung SyncMaster 2243BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ Tweaknews.net
Logitech Z Cinema Surround Sound Speaker Review @ OCC
Editorials
DRM Protection: Treating Consumers Like Thieves
Intel and Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research @ HotHardware.com
PC Building Guide @ NordicHardware
Electronics
E-TEN Glofiish X800 Smartphone
Games
Army of Two Xbox 360 Review