Arctic Silver 5

Review by Jason Jacobs on 03/11/04
Power Supply Provided by Arctic Silver

Test Setup:

The Techware Labs test setup was as follows:

Abit NF7-S 2.0
512 PC3500 Kingston HyperX
Barton 2500+
Windows XP Sp1
WD 800JB
WD 800JB
Lite-On DVDRW
Samsung 52x32x52
Polarflo Waterblock, Heatercore, and Rio 180 Pump

Temperature Statistics:
(Note: All temperatures were gathered at an ambient temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit or 23.8 degrees Celcius at a CPU speed of 2.0ghz)

It looks like Arctic Silver is still king of the thermal pastes. Arctic Silver 5 managed to trim 2 degrees from the idle and 3 degrees from the load temperatures from the previous Arctic Silver 3 temperatures.

Overclocking:
We set about overclocking the CPU as soon as the idle and load results were in. Our first jump was a small 46mhz gain to 2046. 11x186
Upon sucessfully reaching the desktop, we rebooted and tried a more advanced jump to 2200 mhz. 11x200
A 400mhz overclock used to seem big news, but these processors overclock relatively easily. Lets see how the idle temperatures were under 2.2ghz.

We decided to again push the processor further to 2365mhz. 11 x 215

Techwarelabs was unable to push this processor further due to chipset and memory limitations. Our guess is that the processor would have clocked further up but we reached the chipset limitations of this board.

Conclusions

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