Evercool STC-03 Cruise Missle Thermal Compound
Submitted by jwhitakr on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 20:28
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While many people may not think that thermal paste is very important or that the different brands all perform the same, it's no surprise to tech enthusiasts to find that a high performance thermal paste is actually critical to keeping your components running cool. A good thermal paste can give you two or three degrees Celsius of lower heat temperatures. A good thermal compound will also be easy to apply and cleanup so you have less hassles with CPU and other heat sink installation.
With that in mind, EVERCOOL debuts its new thermal paste - the Cruise Missle STC-03 - that spreads easily and is claimed to keep your CPU and other heat producing components cool. EVERCOOL Cruise Missile High Performance Thermal Compound is a smooth thermal paste that applies easily on CPUs and bridge components for the best heat transfer to keep components cool.
Design and Installation
The Cruise Missile Thermal Compound is a grey thermal paste that applies easily and comes in a syringe with a plastic spreader for easy application and removal. The syringe is easy to use and applying the paste on either a CPU or heat sink is simple.
The thermal compound is not too thick that it spreads easily and not too thin that it runs when applied to a heat sink and moved it into position. The paste spreads well when the heat sink is applied and I had no problems both installing and removing the compound for reapplication.
Compatibility
- Contains 1 Thermal Compound syringe and 1 spreader
- Color Grey
- Thermal Conductivity 2.89W/mK-C°
- Thermal Resistance 0.032°C-cm2/W
- Weight 3 grams
Features
- Cruise Missile(STC-03) with extremely low thermal resistance for superior thermal performance
- Cruise Missile(STC-03) remain workable for easy spreading, screen printing and dispensing even after storage and exposure to air
- High reliability and stability under adverse conditions such as thermal cycling, high humidity and high-temperature aging
- Application to CPU.VGA.Chipset and other pc components
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Testing and Performance
Test Setup
- Motherboard: ECS P45T-A
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Memory: 4GB US Modular & Crucial Ballistix
- CPU Heatsinks: Evercool 10025EA and Thermaltake Spin Q
- Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750 watt
- Hard drive: Seagate 7200 RPM 250 GB SATA
- Case: Thermaltake Element S
I ran the tests after a few minutes of resting at idle to allow the thermal compounds to settle in and then recorded temperatures after a half hour to steady the reading. I then allowed the computer to run under a load using the OCCT program for a half hour before recording a temperature under full load.
I recorded the four core temperatures during separate testing to get a good reading and a good comparison for each set of tests. I allowed the computer to rest without power to cool off and then began testing again after a half hour at idle and load.
I then averaged each set of readings from all cores to get an average of all cores at each idle and full load to get the final results you see in the chart. I compared between the EVERCOOL Cruise Missile Thermal Compound and a new thermal compound from Tuniq called TX-3 as well as a thermal compound I purchased locally that is an off brand.
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Evercool STC-03 Cruise Missle Thermal Compound
What more is there to say - the temperature readings are consistent with top of the line thermal compounds and show that even at full load the EVERCOOL STC-03 Cruise Missle Thermal Compound does slightly better than the Tuniq thermal paste, and performs much better than the off brand thermal paste.
The only problem? I'm not able to find an online retailer that has the STC-03 in stock, and so it's not known at this time how much the thermal paste costs.
Pros: Easily spreadable, nice consistency, good performance.
Cons: Other than not being widely available yet, there's none to speak of. It’s good stuff.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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