Author: Stefan Alexandru Editor: Peter Kapas Date: May 12, 2008 Manufacturer: Tuniq Provider: Sunbeamtech

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Application
The TX-2 has a very viscous appearance and this particular property is very good because this paste does not get solid fast like other thermal compounds do.

The previous paste:


The CPU after cleaning:


Applying the paste:


Checking if the paste is spread well:


I had a problem in the past with the AS5 thermal compound.It solidified after 6 months of use, wasn’t yielding the same results as the ones at the beginning and when I tried to get the heatsink off the CPU,even if I did a heat-up first of the CPU,the heatsink came off with the CPU attached on the bottom of it!

Testing procedure:
For the test setup I have chosen a CPU that heats a lot during load.
The setup consumes 142W in IDLE and 225W in FULL LOAD during the CPU stress test.

Test setup:
-Pentium 4 3.0C@3.5Ghz FSB 800 Northwood with stock cooling (1.6V)
-ASUS P4P800 SE
-4x512 MB DDR1 PC3200 Twinmos BH-5
-Nvidia 6800 Ultra AGP 8x 256 MB DDR3
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 1 Player
-NEC 3540A DVD-RW
-Western Digital JB 80GB

The ambient temperature was 23 degrees Celsius at all times.


First run with the AS5 thermal compound applied:


Second run with the Tuniq TX-2 thermal compound applied:


Summary:


The difference is pretty big considering that I used the same stock cooler and Tuniq TX-2 really made it!It surpasses the AS5 by some good degrees.I highly recommend this thermal paste.

Pros:
•Very effective
•Viscous
•Very cheap

Cons:
•No documentation

I recommend it to everyone because it is cheap and very effective and I award it with the Mikhailtech Editors Choice!

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