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Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver?
strider69666 writes "Over at Overclockers.com they have a review of several thermal compounds that claim to have 99% pure silver content. 'I decided to test Arctic Silver 5, Arctic Silver 3, OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver Compound, and CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease. This test was not conducted to test performance, but rather to determine if these compounds have Silver as an ingredient.' Using a professionally mixed testing solution, they found that several brands do not, in fact, contain any silver at all! So, are you getting what you are paying for?"
Who cares who's selling what? The TRUE geek makes his own from a brick of silver.
In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones.
No, mine isn't. And by the way, despite the claims of the manufacturer, Soylent green is not 100% people. Quit believing advertising, and you will be just fine. Better yet, take up spectroscopy as a hobby. Chicks dig spectroscopes!
This is not surprizing at all as silver is expensive. Oh wait; what the fuck?
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
When someone buys 'Silver' thermal paste, are they paying for silver, or for performance? I don't buy the platinum edition of a game and feel jipped because the CD held little to no platinum.
...compusa meant that it was 99% silver - the /color/.
thank you, thank you. i'll be here all night. tip your wait staff.
Fun with Anagarams! LADS HOST, SHALT DOS. HAS DOLTS. AD SLOTHS, HATS SOLD. ASS HO, LTD.
Is silver toxic? I thought the tube that came with my athlon fan was complementary tootpaste!
Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcement?
Dirty Harry?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you? Oh wait...
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the 80's)
I want a free goddam coffee and an apple pie right now or I'll sue!
Yeah and remind me to sue crayola too for not including any real silver in their silver crayons, those damned cheapskates.
A Bugg
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You're telling me a site on overclocking has to cut off the user limit? Their servers aren't overclocked enough to handle it?
"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
makes *his* from a brick of Tin. So suck it punk!
less than 1% silver by volume
Translation: 0% silver by volume.
What? there's no gold in gold bond powder?
Perfect response. Give the Product Manager a raise.
/.)--may actually have the effect of increasing brand loyalty.
This is a situation where a company's extremely quick action--which is probably going to reach virtually everyone who even knows about the problem (the parent is still "above the fold" here on
Hell, I don't buy the stuff, but if I did, I'd switch to theirs on the basis of this response alone.
1. Sell bogus silver paste
2. Get exposed on Overclockers
3. Masterfully respond to problem
4. Profit!
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
"Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcement? "
Dunno, they never come back.
"Derp de derp."
Dan says it works real good.
How else are we supposed to protect our PC's from werewolves?!
working in a local mom in pop type store some dude
came in wanting help getting his heatsink off.
Sure enough that baby was stuck tighter than a frogs ass. I asked "did you install this?" "yep! I
put it on with JB-WELD for a nice snug fit."
It is just like Bob putting a big block in his pinto.
Oh, yeah, sure. When you put it in that light it all makes perfect sense.
KFG
it tastes like it's real silver to me
I think at some point we need to start modding article text postings as off-topic. Nothing destroys a good slashdot conversation like a return to the main article. ...it also undermines the slashdotting attempt.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
I mean, c'mon people! Use some logic!
For best results, put heatsinks on the fans to cool the air more. You might want to point a fan at the fan, too. Actually, if you did this enough times, you could reach absolute zero or even absolute -10.
This isn't rocket smarts, guys.
But how do I squeeze it back into the tube?
OCZ would like to take this time to spin doctor a recent article published at Overclockers.com, which shows that OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound has no silver content.
It is not really OCZ's fault, we don't actually make the stuff. OCZ is a victum just like you! Someone in China did it and we couldn't have possibly known because we outsourced our quality control as well. This required us to trust a single independent lab test to be representive of the quality of all batches of OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound.
Now that we have been caught with our pants down, we have submitted a second batch to our outsourced quality control and confirmed that it is all China's fault. But we would like to point out that the compound did contain 30% silver by weight. We have reached the conclusion that this recent batch (actually, it might be multiple batchs but we can't afford to test each one to be sure) did not meet with the OCZ unenforced specifications.
Instead of giving your money back, we will define the steps below as "accepting full responsiblity" and would like to point out that we are taking legal action since it really is China's fault.
Beginning today we are issuing an incomplette recall of all full or partially used OCZ Ultra 2 (if you still have an empty OCZ Ultra 2 then your S.O.L. and get nothing).
1) The tube which now sells for $9 on NewEgg (and we would like to point out that the Tech Zone rated as cooling 2 degrees C below Arctic Silver) can be exchanged for Arctic Silver which you could have just bought for $7 -OR- you can get a OCZ heat sink that we need to get rid of anyways since it is discontinued!
But wait... there is more...
2) A one-size-fits-all T-shirt featuring the OCZ logo so you can be a walking advertizement for OCZ until it falls apart the third time you wash it. The fact that there is not the cotten/polyester blend we specified can not be OCZ's fault because after all... OCZ does not have it's own quality assurence and in the end everything is China's fault.
Oh... but wait... there is even more...
3) $10 off another of our products which also comes complette with no quality assurence!
Thank you for getting scre... doing business with OCZ. Remember, if it is not OCZ technology then you might actually be getting what you payed for.
I fried my cpu and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
... not a metallic element they are refering to? It looks "silver."
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You know, uh, like, uh "orange" paint isn't really made from oranges, it's just that color
Yeah! that's it!
(And if you believe that
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Tomas
They should run them at a safe, drinkable temperature.
Indeed, all of the orders I've placed had their tracking information on the website itself updated every couple hours.
In my experience though, they tend to move fast enough that it seems to be like this:
Your order is at Step 1: Validating Order
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 2: Verifying payment information
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 2: Verifying payment information
*RELOAD*
Your order is at Step 6: The FedEx guy is about to ring your*DING DONG*
Never confuse volume with power.
In my day all we had was this damn turtle.
You had a turtle? We plunged forever into the nothingness of pure void. Uphill. Both ways.
LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? C. MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
My Titanium and Platinum edition software isn't really made out of Titanium or Platinum, either. What a gyp. I thought the CDs would be made out of superior metals, and here they're just the same old standard foil you get with any other commercially pressed CD. Bleaugh.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Well, several hospilizations later, at least I know why my super soaker filled with 'silver' thermal paste was having no effect upon the local lycanthropes. Damn you, false advertisers.
it warms my heart to see that you used the proper "You're a moron" rather than the ever more common "Your a moron" or the coloquial "U R a m0r0n".
Nice work.
"I wonder where the foreign manufacturer is though, and how easy they are to prosecute. Now I feel sorry for OCZ, because it looks like they're the ones getting the shaft."
It's a Nigerian exporter who promised OCZ they had MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of unclaimed silver they need help get out of the country...
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
Oh come on, how hard is it to create an invoice? I wouldn't feel bad at all about faking an invoice to return a product that was sold to me under false pretenses.
Casca
Ah but you get to outsource some blame too. OCZ gets to say someone else did it.