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Re: BITMAIN Antminer S3 support and OverClocking thread
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J4bberwock
on 28/07/2014, 12:56:41 UTC

What about using Thermal-PAD's instead of Thermal-paste ??

Check this PDF catalog: http://www.heatmanagement.com/local/media/pdfs/Kunze_ProductCatalogue-2014.pdf
I was looking the pad on page 80 !!  220w/mk !

There are even bether ones on page 94 mage with carbon !

What y'all think about ?

The one on page 80 is rated at 3w/mK
Some phobya pads are rated 7w/mK
And phobya nano grease extreme is 16w/mk.
When looking at heat pastes tests, you will also notice that at a point, it will not be cost efficient at all. Almost no gain with price doubled or tripled.
Good pastes in a 7-12w/mk range will be more than enough for our use in asics.

As a side note, not many materials will give you 200w/mK or over when mixed to form a paste/pad.
Maybe diamond that is 1000w/mK, but t the paste would cost way too much
Anyway, if it ever exists, anything over 200 will be useless since aluminium (heatsink material) is around 220w/wK.