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Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: redsniper on July 04, 2005, 10:13:08 am

Arctic Silver seems to be pretty good, but some of these other kinds are non-conductive. What should I get?

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Knight Templar on July 04, 2005, 10:50:19 am

Colgate: 2-in-1 Whitener and Fresh Blast

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: redsniper on July 04, 2005, 11:05:37 am

meh, I already ordered the Arctic Silver. I use Crest Multicare and it gives me nice teeth. See: :D

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: spaceman spiff on July 04, 2005, 12:23:09 pm

yeah! crest multicare all the way!

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Ashrak on July 04, 2005, 01:15:05 pm

erm nonconductive ... id have to say MX-1 that what im gonna use with my artic freezer tomorrow :)

its sorta like cenment you put a large sploch in them iddle of the ship put the cooler on and then move it arround a bit :)

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Clave on July 04, 2005, 05:22:51 pm

Whatever you use, remember not to apply too much:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/faqs/kb/5,62.html

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Bobboau on July 04, 2005, 05:38:12 pm

I use pepsident it's anti-bacterial propertes are vastly superior to all other bands

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Nuke on July 04, 2005, 06:20:48 pm

most stock hreatsinks come with the past pre- applied. both intel an amd retail boxed chips come with it pre applied to the cooling unit. i have used the goo before on servers but for a non-overclocked pc the stok fan works best.

id like to see a chip die with a bilt in liquid or gas cooling system. instead of straping on a heatsink with excessive force, you attach a couple tubes from the die to a refridgerator-esc device. ive seen liquid coolers but they still had to make the pass from chip to cooler. by machining the conduits directly through the chip casing it would really increase thermal transfer. you could run freon or some other gas coolant directly through the chip. perhaps liquid metal or liquid coolants could be used, though id ferfer a non electrically cunductable medium.

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: phatosealpha on July 04, 2005, 10:51:41 pm

Arctic silver 5 is technically very slightly capacitive, which means it's very very slightly conductive.  That said, I've been using it on my A64 and it's cause no trouble whatsoever.  Not recommended for things like RAM though.

If conductivity is a worry for you any way, go with arctic silver ceramique, as it's not even slightly conductive.  Pretty good stuff too.


Intel's stock thermal interface material is actually quite good.  AMDs I'm not sure sure about.  Either way, the real problem is that those pads are only good for 1 use.  If you have to remove the heatsink for any reason, they're no good anymore and need to be replaced.



Chips with internal liquid cooling would likely cost a fortune, taking up valuable die space You'd almost certainly find it more cost effective to just fill your case with mineral oil.

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Clave on July 05, 2005, 01:22:38 am

Of course if the chip and heatsink were perfectly flat, then all the gunk could be dispensed with.  There is no better conduction than direct contact....

Title: Quickly, what's the best thermal paste?
Post by: Nuke on July 05, 2005, 01:44:22 am

why not make the die casing and heatsink from the same piece of metal?