Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina 5g Premium Ceramic Thermal Cooling Adhesive Set (AATA-5G)

Works as advertised. Definitely follow the instructions. LESS is MORE when using this product. When attaching a heat sink that is the size of a quarter, you only need a very small drop of compound (about the size of BB). Put the drop in the center of the chip. Press down on the heat sink FIRMLY to squeeze the compound out to the edges. If you use more than that, too much will come oozing out and you will have a mess to clean up. This stuff is like epoxy, so it is a PERMANENT installation. Cures pretty fast, but make sure you keep the heatsink/chip horizontal until it is fully set, otherwise you risk having the heatsink slide off the chip.

If you are attaching to a socketed CPU/heatsink setup - this isn't for you, you would want the standard compound, not this adhesive version. For attaching smaller heatsinks to other chips, this (2 part epoxy) adhesive is solid. My most recent use case was attaching a couple heatsinks to some Raspberry Pi 3Bs (cpu and memory). For this use, it worked well, securely attaching the sinks, and lowering peek temps (preventing thermal throttling)

I used this to attach small aluminum heat sinks to the processing units on an Android media stick that I cut a window out of the case. The stick would get very hot but didn't cause any distortion. I wanted to avoid that problem and prolong the life of the stick so I took the case apart, cut the area that covers the processor and memory modules out with a dremel tool and then attached the copper heatsinks with this glue. It works well and they are there permanently. You need to understand this last part. This is not thermal paste. If you use this it will permanently glue the two items together. It's a thermal paste/glue for permanently bonding heatsinks to chips and processors.

I needed to secure a heatsink to the CPU of my overheating router and this fit the bill perfectly. It's quite simple to use: Just mix equal parts of the material from either tube, spread it onto the surface of the chip thinly and evenly and then press or gently clamp the heatsink onto the chip and let it cure for a few hours. You've got to use your mixture within 5 minutes or else it starts to harden. The leftover mixture solidified about 5 hours after I mixed it, but I gave my work 9 hours to cure before I reassembled and tested the router. I was able to lift the motherboard by just holding onto the heatsink. I shook the assembly a little to test the adhesion and it seems pretty well stuck on there. It's also permanent, so make sure you use the proper heatsink for your application or else you you risk damaging the IC and motherboard if you try to pry the heatsink off after using the epoxy. I'm taking away 1 star because some of the material in the 2nd tube had already started to harden. I don't know if I received old stock or if it was poorly stored, but I had to clean out the hardened material from the syringe with a pin to get it flowing. Small annoyance though. The rest has gone into the fridge for storage and I've got me a cool-running router. It's well worth the $ 5.00 I paid on Amazon.

This stuff works! This is NOT thermal paste, it is thermal adhesive! So don't use this on a CPU (unless that's what you want to do) because it will be permanent. I used it to glue some heatsinks onto some memory chips for my GTX-670 graphics card and I can tell you after it is cured, it is solid and those heatsinks are permanently glued. You have to mix the two compounds together. It cures really fast though, so my advice is that you mix only a small amount at a time on a piece of cardboard, use a toothpick to blend them together, then apply it within two minutes, otherwise it starts getting hard to spread. Also, don't use a dish or the counter for mixing, it gets really hard and will be difficult to remove. Caution: make sure that what you are gluing is permanent as you will probably never be able to remove it without damaging it (I learned this the hard way, but that's not the product's fault)

I had a little project that need to find a product that would permanently bond to my laptop heat sink. There was an old laptop that was sitting around. One day I decided to turn it on and it instantly got extremely hot. I decided to pick up a heat sink from Amazon and this product. Then I took apart my laptop and bonded these two items together. It required mixing the two tubes together to make a tick paste. Luckily, the product came with a mixing tool. Once mixed I applied the paste to the laptop and after a night of setting they couldn't be separated. It thermally conducted the heat in a manner that allowed my CPU and GPU to be room temperature. Before the temperatures were sitting in the high 180F. I couldn't recommend this product enough. Pros: Easy to mix, bonded well. Cons: Had a pungent smell. Other than that though if you need some thermal adhesive pick this product up.

How do you write a review about ... glue? Well, it's sticky. Kidding. I use this brand of glue on Playstation 3 models that I repair. It is incredible. Often, I can pull the metal tops off of the processors when removing the motherboard as a result of over-heated, poor epoxy applied by Sony. This stuff is quite *strong* and appears to affect the processor temperatures for the better (though, I'm using higher end thermal grease and cleaning/re-lubricating the fans with my repairs, so the small decrease in CPU temp could easily be related to that). Look, you want a glue that keeps the spreader on the chip and conducts heat well. This does both. It's excellent and pretty reasonably priced. Win, Win, Win.

I used the plain Arctic Alumina at first and wondered why it didn't stick. Arctic Silver should call this product by a different name to differentiate it from plain Arctic Alumina. Even if this product is just Arctic Alumina (Part A) plus glue (Part B). The glue (Part B) has a somewhat epoxy smell like to it, not pleasant. There was some hardening by the cap area, but it was easy enough to squeeze through. I used this to glue a heatsink to my GPU heat sink (by cutting it down first), in my project of converting my ATI 3450 to fan less. It holds so far. Make sure that any time something doesn't work to clean everything (Isopropanol works) and start again rather than trying to reuse thermal compound. I tried to reuse some of the original plain Arctic Alumina I already had applied on the heatsink by applying Part B to the edges, this didn't work. I used clamps and let it sit for 24 hours. I ended up with a lot of excess paste. Make sure to clean up your work area right away since it can dry fast. I only wonder how long Part B will last in the tube.