thermal pad for cpu?

tjb129016 · 03-20-2006, 03:57 AM

thermal pad, is that the same as the grease ?

b182tm · 03-20-2006, 04:37 AM

Nope. Thermal pads sometimes come with the heatsink (both stock and aftermarket). It is a pad that is already on the heatsink, and it has a type of wax in it. Grease has, well, grease in it. You buy this seperately, though it does sometimes come with the heatsink. Most people prefer Arctic Silver 5, it works very well. It has silver in it, giving better conductivity.

[-0MEGA-] · 03-20-2006, 12:09 PM

They serve the same purpose, to fill in the "air pockets" between the heastsink and cpu, as well as tranfering the heat from one to another.

Generally speaking, the thermal pad is stock and is usually poor quality, buying a paste/grease such as Artic Silver 5, lowers the temps and is better quality.

fade2green514 · 03-20-2006, 12:15 PM

get silver 5...
www.arcticsilver.com
it is arguably the best thermal compound there is in terms of longevity and how cool it keeps your cpu.

03-20-2006, 03:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
tjb129016 Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 101	thermal pad for cpu? thermal pad, is that the same as the grease ?

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b182tm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bronco Country Age: 19 Posts: 1,044	Nope. Thermal pads sometimes come with the heatsink (both stock and aftermarket). It is a pad that is already on the heatsink, and it has a type of wax in it. Grease has, well, grease in it. You buy this seperately, though it does sometimes come with the heatsink. Most people prefer Arctic Silver 5, it works very well. It has silver in it, giving better conductivity. __________________ mobo ASUS A8N5X cpu AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ memory 1GB GeIL RAM video card 6600 GT 128MB hard drive Samsung 120GB SATA HDD R.I.P. Darrent Williams

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[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,082	They serve the same purpose, to fill in the "air pockets" between the heastsink and cpu, as well as tranfering the heat from one to another. Generally speaking, the thermal pad is stock and is usually poor quality, buying a paste/grease such as Artic Silver 5, lowers the temps and is better quality. __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800 750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

03-20-2006, 12:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
fade2green514 Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: buffalo ny Age: 19 Posts: 3,626	get silver 5... www.arcticsilver.com it is arguably the best thermal compound there is in terms of longevity and how cool it keeps your cpu. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3ghz HD 4850 512mb (750/2350mhz) 2x2gb G.Skill ddr2-835 (5-4-4-10) 2x80gb sata2 in RAID 0 system drive 250gb sata2 storage drive 13,574 - 3dmark06 score

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