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

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.

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.

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 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.

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've always found Arctic Alumina messy to work with. The cure time, practically was a lot less than the advertised 5 minutes even at low room temperature of 70F. And I took good care of the tubes (always kept them refrigerated, needles pointing downwards). It was really a pain AA-ing 90 Luxeon rebel stars to heatsinks. I could barely apply the paste to the bottom of 4 led stars before the mix dried up (it was so quick, and forming lumps/grains). So I had to mix small amount of dabs many times to avoid wasting the AA.WARNING: Trying to apply almost dried up paste will initially seem to work, but after a few hours components may come off easily.