Any difference in included thermal grease vs Arctic Silver?

[bapc]

I'm shopping around for a CPU cooler for a 1156 motherboard / i7-870, and I'm interested in the Thermaltake 1156 Silent cooler.

I noticed that thermal grease is included in the package (in the past there was none).

Is this grease basically the same as Arctic Silver quality?

 

[mister g]

That depends, does it have silver inside like Artic Silver does, either way probably not as it's what the company packs in for convenience, my opinion.

 

[Timop]

Yup, it depends, it could be generic silicon grease or silver-based compounded, not sure what TT does though.

You could just use that it if you don't have a tube of AS5 handy though, see if you like the temps.

 

[bapc]

Ah ok, thank you. That's a good idea. I'll try the generic ones and if it's not good I'll clean it and put AS5.

Unfortunately I don't have any around.... last time I build a PC was back in like 2003.