Thermal Paste

[chuck232]

Hey, I was wondering if there was a difference between the thermal paste we use on CPUs and the thermal paste we use on video cards. Here on PEI, we don't have anyplace that i know of that sells Arctic Silver 2 or something like it, but they do sell thermal paste for CPUs.

 

[wapaaga]

the only diff might be that the stuff one the video card could be thermo adhesive.

to let you know artic silver 3 is out.

what is better then a 7000 rpm, a 8000 rpm delta. to cause more noise to kill your ears

 

[HonestJhon]

i use arctic silver2 on my cpu and my video card.
the video card used to have the white paste on it, and when i first built my computer, i had the white paste on the cpu. but that white paste is just general thermal grease. they sell it at radio shack for use with electronics, like putting a heatsink on a transistor or something along those lines.

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[10GHZ]

most of the nvidia cards uses paste, radeon uses adhensives, and no, thre is no difference between the thermal paste u use on your cpu and the graphics card. i uses AS3 on my cpu and it works quite good, althogh it took me couple of tries to apply it properly, personally i find it difficult to apply AS3 on my graphics card, the core is quite big and when i press the heatsink on to it, the paste on the core dosn't comes in 2 contact with the heatsink.

 

[HonestJhon]

you mean that the heatsink is not flat? or the chip is not flat?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-