A Most Excellent TIM
Hey gang...I'm currently doing a major system upgrade. When reinstalling the Thermalright ULTRAe cpu cooler (having to use a new base plate for it), I decided to try out the Chill Factor thermal paste that came with the cooler instead of my trusty Arctic Silver 5. Wouldn't you know it...I'm experiencing LOWER idle/load temps on an overclocked i7 920 cpu (3.6ghz) than I was on a Q9450 cpu that was at stock speed(2.66ghz)...occasionally oc'ed to 3.4. Temps are anywhere from 3 to 5 degrees cooler on the new cpu. No change to the cpu cooler or intake fans or the application method. 
This Chill Factor TIM is pretty amazing stuff...not to mention there is no "cure time" as with Arctic Silver and it is non-conductive.
Just thought some folks here might want to check it out and/or keep it mind if the subject ever pops up on the forum. 
Last edited by bistro; May 26th, 2009 at 08:15 PM.
Desktop: Intel i7 960 CPU @ 4.0GHz, EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI mobo, 12GB Corsair Dominator-GT 2000 DDR3 RAM, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Solid State Drive, Two WD 2TB SATA drives, 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked graphics cards in SLI, Coolermaster HAF X full tower case, OCZ ZX 1250w PSU, Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Laptop: MSI GT60-004US, 2x Seagate Momentus XT 750GB SSD Hybrid drives in RAID 0, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GeForce 670M 3GB graphics card, Networks 'Killer' N-1103 WLAN card
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