Arctic silver or Thermal paste

I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to use a
hair dryer. I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if I
should use arctic silver or thermal paste.
The chip and heasink are stock bought from Dell. The PC is a Dell 8300.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1

GHalleck
Sun Jun 22 23:33:00 PDT 2008


attilathehun1 wrote:

> I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to use a
> hair dryer. I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if I
> should use arctic silver or thermal paste.
> The chip and heasink are stock bought from Dell. The PC is a Dell 8300.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1


I am biased. I have only used Arctic Silver 5 for the past 4 years.

Bjarke
Sun Jun 22 23:53:45 PDT 2008

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<attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> crashed Echelon writing
news:F68F1256-5BBC-4173-B10C-6BDE23C18608@microsoft.com:

> I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to
> use a
> hair dryer.

Half an hour in the freezer can be used as well. Just remember to let the
hardware condition to the temparature diffences before re-use.

> I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if
> I should use arctic silver or thermal paste.

Artic silver is the choice unless you can give any information on contents
of your "thermal paste".
Normally you would go after paste with highest amount of silver for better
heat transfer. Artic Silver has for years been a good product, better than
most.

If you need to head for the store to get Artic Silver, go for their ceramic
paste. Tests which you can google for, has shown that their ceramic paste
can lower temparatures 2-3 degrees (celcius) more than artic silver.

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Bjarke Andersen

M
Mon Jun 23 00:12:34 PDT 2008


"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F68F1256-5BBC-4173-B10C-6BDE23C18608@microsoft.com...
> I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to use
> a
> hair dryer. I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if I
> should use arctic silver or thermal paste.
> The chip and heasink are stock bought from Dell. The PC is a Dell 8300.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>

The state of the art material these days is phase change thermal compound.
In fact many CPU manufacturers will now void the warranty if you use
anything else. It comes in dispenser that looks exactly like a 'prit
stick', so if you are not careful you can glue the CPU to the heatsink and
paste some very cool notes together.

Spiral
Mon Jun 23 17:40:54 PDT 2008

GHalleck wrote:

>
> attilathehun1 wrote:
>
>> I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to use
>> a
>> hair dryer. I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if I
>> should use arctic silver or thermal paste.
>> The chip and heasink are stock bought from Dell. The PC is a Dell 8300.
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks, attilathehun1
>
>
> I am biased. I have only used Arctic Silver 5 for the past 4 years.

If you're not overclocking, then no real worry, but if you are AC is good
stuff and grab some 800-1200 emory paper and buff those surfaces while
you're at it...

attilathehun1
Thu Jun 26 07:46:03 PDT 2008

Yeah, I'm using this thermal paste that came with the Zalman CNPS9700 LED
Cooler. I do have some arctic silver, but I feel that if the thermal paste
came with the Zalman cooler that they must know something, and are not just
being a bunch of cheap-skates.
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


"M.I.5¾" wrote:

>
> "attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F68F1256-5BBC-4173-B10C-6BDE23C18608@microsoft.com...
> > I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to use
> > a
> > hair dryer. I just now cleaned both pieces off, and I want to know if I
> > should use arctic silver or thermal paste.
> > The chip and heasink are stock bought from Dell. The PC is a Dell 8300.
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> The state of the art material these days is phase change thermal compound.
> In fact many CPU manufacturers will now void the warranty if you use
> anything else. It comes in dispenser that looks exactly like a 'prit
> stick', so if you are not careful you can glue the CPU to the heatsink and
> paste some very cool notes together.
>
>
>