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Originally Posted by Jabo
Well, there's also sth called spreadability and filling ratio (how fine the thing is) and AC is supposedly better.
AS5 may be better with physical properties (thermal conductivity) but application is a different ball game alltogether.
If it was better to ommit TIM in your cooling assy then nobody would be using it by now!
Direct metal-to-cilicone contact without TIM is laughable in terms of thermal transfer compared to the same thing used with TIM.
You may want to use mercury but I doubt you'd survive t tell the story  |
Not to put words in another's mouth, but I suspect he (Butcher) was referring to having a TIM joint versus eliminating said TIM joint (context being the earlier discussion of removal of the heatspreader).