Hello all I need some urgent advice concerning NON CONDUCTIVE thermal paste. I urgently need to finish a project today and I need to apply a heat sink to some vrm chips (I'll be using screws and not thermal tape/pads so its secure). I don't have time to purchase any tim but I already have a mix of different pastes and was hoping to that one of them will suffice. They are: Arctic Silver 5 Thermalright generic paste (yellow and silver label tube -came with a SI-128 SE) Arctic Cooling silicon generic paste Zalman Thermal grease (CSL 850) Will any of these meet my needs? Any help will be gratefully accepted
Well there all non conductive if my memory serves my well, personally i would use cheap stuff on VRM's, so use either the zalman or arctic cooling. Save the arctic silver 5 for something else!
AS5 is slightly conductive, seenas they put ground silver into it. Just shove the cheap Thermalright paste on in tiny amounts, you really don't need a lot at all. It's actually pretty good stuff.
As long as you don't use Coollaboratory Liquid Pro you should be fine since the silver particles in the paste aren't connected over macroscopic distances I don't think it's conductive (or so I remember reading somewhere . . .), but it is slightly capacitive which is almost as bad . . .
