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Originally posted by Cricket
Arctic Silver needs a few days to "break in" before you see the real drop in temps.
 Cricket
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Now.. see.. that's one reason I'm not a big fan of AS and similar products. First, I've never seen a major drop in temps, and after a week or so, they have always climbed back up to where they were when the "pad" was installed, some times higher.
This happened when I put a Speeze on my old 1800+, for just one example. I lost a whopping 1°, and about a week later, it was 2°s higher!
Also, (don't quote me here, as I'm going from my poor memory) but my understanding is that is why AMD doesn't like it, too: because of the phenomenon of "squeeze out."
Just my $0.02
TwoRails
PS: and yes, I do keep AS on hand for when I have to pull HSs.