Arctic silver or Thermal paste

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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
 
attilathehun1 said:
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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I am biased. I have only used Arctic Silver 5 for the past 4 years.
 
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I just unstuck the CPU chip from the bottom of the heatsink. I had to
use a
hair dryer.
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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.
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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.
 
attilathehun1 said:
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.
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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.
 
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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