Quick question about thermal grease

[Trine]

a buddy told me to check the thermal grease on my HS/CPU because it is OEM, and they are not well known for applying a good amount. I checked it, and he was right. it was hard and crusty, and very little of it on the HS. my question is, is the thermal grease the same thing as "anti seize"? it looks the same, and I know anti seize gets hot with contact. any ideas?

[funnyperson1]

ive never heard of anti-seize but for 2 dollars at Radio Shack you can get some decent thermal compund.....first you gotta scrape that crap of your cpu....

[Yodums]

Hmm me either, never came across that word till now..

Usually what they give you sucks most of the time they hand you a thermal pad...

Clean the stuff off your cpu and add some good thermal compound such as Artic Silver II....

[Zuck Gou :)]

Originally posted by Trine
a buddy told me to check the thermal grease on my HS/CPU because it is OEM, and they are not well known for applying a good amount. I checked it, and he was right. it was hard and crusty, and very little of it on the HS. my question is, is the thermal grease the same thing as "anti seize"? it looks the same, and I know anti seize gets hot with contact. any ideas?

You actually don't want alot of paste on. You want a thin, even layer. I'd suggest Artic Silver 2. But its pricey. A cheap radio shack batch applied correctly will still be way better than the tape that you might be using.

[Yodums]

Yup if you add too much the more ineffective it becomes... You want a thin even layer so if you had a slot cpu you can hold it up to the light and see no light between the cpu and the heatsink...

[Trine]

cool, thx for the great replies. :)

[Kingslayer]

STOP THE PRESSES!

This guy just touched on something and you all let it slip by.

Anti-seize.

Most copper colored anti-seize has, well, lots of copper in it. And the silver colored stuff has aluminum in it.

I wonder what the chances of this working as a thermal compound. This is something I'm going to look into.

[pappypete]

Anti seize is a lubricant, used on unlike metals. (steel bolt in aluminum threads) It has a lot of metallic content, but, i think the
lubricant may run when hot. I don't think it will stay where you put it.

[Krome]

Anti-Seize (the silver one) = the Shiz

We use that stuff @ my pops shop, it's for when your putting engines together, we put it on the thread of the bolts that hold the heads to the block, its so they don't get rusted/stuck and break inside the engine block. I have a slot1 processor, that hardly has any thermal grease on it, what is a good brand?

[Trine]

I know that the High temp stuff doesn't run, I was the proud recipient of a third degree burn from some we put on an exhaust stack and then ran the motor for a couple hours, it was still in the same place 3 hours later when I removed the bolts