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Noctua NT-H1
The packaging is simple and to the point. The front shows off Noctua's TIM and to the back shows all the information that you need to know about the thermal interface material and how to use it.
Applying the TIM is simple enough and by following the directions provided proves to be the most effective way of using their product.
Moving onto the results, we tested Noctua's NT-H1 against that of the ever so classic Arctic Silver 5 on our Intel test bed using a Q6600 G0 SLACR CPU overclocked to 3ghz with stock voltages and at 3.6ghz with 1.55 volts. To cool the cpu we used the Swiftech H20-120 water cooling kit and then tested each TIM after two weeks of being on the CPU to allow for cure time to yield more accurate test results at a room temp of 22c.
As we can see from both results that at idle both the NT-H1 and AS5 perform the same even at 3ghz the load temps were the same between the two TIMs but its not until we get to the higher overclocked 3.6ghz that Noctua's NT-H1 starts to pull ahead over the AS5 by 2c and we believe that if we tested at an even higher overclock would have shown the Noctua TIM to yield even better results then what the AS5 would be able to achieve.
