14 DAY TRIAL // Aside from a well placed hammer blow or a Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick, few things in this world can bring a computer system to its knees faster, from a hardware point of view, than excessive heat. While the hardware manufacturing companies are constantly raising the performance bar of their respective products in order to stay competitive and bring to market faster and more powerful computing solutions, two linked side effects are often playing havoc even in the best performing systems. Meet and please do not greet, Heat and Power Consumption.
Power consumption soared in personal computer systems a few years back but now it looks like things are in control as the new generation of central processing units, or CPUs for short, from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are staying in the 25 to 120 Watts range mainly and more often than not a typical CPU makes do with around 45 Watts.
Heat on the other hand is still a problem and it is less likely to be solved quickly as hardware manufacturers are packing huge numbers of transistors on ever shrinking silicon dies. While most computer users are blissfully ignorant regarding the working temperatures of a modern day central processing unit, for overclockers it takes the form of a barrier that once passed could lead to irreversible damaged chips and quite a huge blow to one's paycheck. One of the most important and unfortunately ignored piece of the temperature control and dissipation system in a computer system is the thermal compound that sits between the central processing unit and its attached cooler in order to maximize the heat transfer.
Specially designed for heavy duty coolers of high performance computing systems the, MX-2 thermal compound is produced by the Swiss cooling solution provider ARCTIC COOLING and it is now available in a brand new package well suited for both overclockers and computer services. Coming in a 30 gram packaging, the MX-2 thermal compound is offering high thermal conductivity and low thermal resistance and while it is intended mainly for CPU cooling it can also provide a good replacement for the stock compound that is applied on graphical processing units or on motherboards' northbridges.
ARCTIC COOLING's MX-2 thermal conductivity compound comes with almost no electrical conductivity as it contains no metal particles but steps must be taken nonetheless in order to ensure that no compound is leaked on various electronic circuits, just to be on the safe side.
"Many worldwide media experts have proven that the MX-2 thermal conductivity outperforms similar TIM products", said Patrick Chung, Marketing Manager of ARCTIC COOLING, who was cited by the hardware and software news site VR-Zone[http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=5470]. "They're also pleased that the MX-2 is neither electrical conductive nor capacitive, which makes it safe to apply without any worries."
This latest thermal compound from ARCTIC COOLING will soon be widely available for purchase and overclockers and computer power users shall be able to enhance the heat transfer rate between the various hot circuits and their attached heatsinks with ease as the MX-2 is coming in a semi-fluid form that make it easy to work with, while keeping the spill danger to a minimum.
ARCTIC COOLING's MX-2 new packaging form is going to hit the general market by the middle of January 2008 and its producer recommends a selling point of USD 39.95 or Euro 28,95. Those that may balk at spending so much on a custom thermal compound should still keep in mind that the 30 gram MX-2 syringe can be used for a long time as the inside of the package is kept air-proof and, moreover, the large quantity that comes in a single syringe is enough for servicing several computer systems, making it ideal for computer shops that are specialized in custom built solutions.