Thermal Paste

[Pike]

Where is the cheapest place to get it from? What do you reccommend? And how do you apply it?

Cheers

Carl

[SGT BLADE]

Its called Artic Silver (the best) get it from ocuk.co.uk
Apply to top of your cpu with something plactic, just a nice even layer, you don't need heaps of it.Costs about £10 but you can get cheap stuff from Maplins for a couple of quid.

[Pike]

How come arctic 'silver' doesn't short bridges?

[[HLnC]Jay-Dee]

its not electically conductive :)

[Calzor Suzay]

As to the electrical conductivity, I didn't know how to scientifically test this, so I just squeezed out about a one-quarter inch ribbon of each on a piece of cardboard and touched each end with the leads from a Fluke 77 set to audible continuity mode. When a closed circuit is sensed, the Fluke emits a loud continuous beep until the circuit is broken.

The Chemtronics compound is most definitely conductive. I didn't even have to work the lead ends around to get it to beep. Amazingly, the Arctic Silver compound did not get the Fluke to beep. I tested three different ribbons of the stuff with the same results. It's not logical, but their claim seems to be true.Taken from this review here (http://www.overclockers.com/articles151/)

[werewolf_bite]

hi

you need a thin film spread smoothly over the contact area of the CPU, i used the flat of a clean stanly knive blade to spread it smoothly on my duron, another method i've heard suggested include putting some clingfilm on your finger then carefully smearing around.

[-[Raven]-]

Yeah, I used the finger in the bag technique. No problems as such.