Originally Posted by willbur
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by hardheaded
So i should be installing some of this grease before putting the module in place. I wonder if Advanced Auto carries this thermal grease ?
You should be able to find Arctic Silver on Amazon or at a local computer store (if you still have one).
Interesting about the silver. My understanding is that the purpose of heat transfer grease is to fill in the air space between the mating components. Air is a very good insulator and heat transfer is greatly reduced. These compounds can't transfer heat any better than the components themselves in contact, so anything that can transfer heat as well as the components themselves will do. Some in the PC gaming world overclock their processors, generating a lot of additional heat, and use copper antiseize for this purpose. Some use zinc heat transfer paste but its just thickened zinc sun screen.
The name of the product, which was made notorious by overclockers, is Arctic Silver, probably one of the most prolific heatsink compounds, I doubt it actually has any silver in it, which would make it electrically conductive, it was just the name because it was silver coloured and catchy.