Thermal Grease, which one?

[0N1 L1nK]

I'm deciding which thermal grease to use on my CPU. It's an Athlon 1700XP.
I've heard that Artic Silver3 works very well, but i can't get a hold of any for a while. What I can get is a generic brand call "Unick".
Has anybody heard of this or use it? And will it be fine with my processor?

 

[Acorn]

AS3 tis the only way to go.

Buy some here

 

[vampireuk]

Shin-Etsu Thermal Paste

This stuff linkage comes highly recomended from a lot of people. Beats Arctic silver 3 too

 

[SuperSonic2K]

newegg only ships within the US/PR there

the AS is the best you can go with right now, as generic paste ain't as good as AS in heat transfer, btw, ive never heard of unick

EDIT: check the post above mine, has some useful alternative to AS3

 

[Slougi]

personally i prefer as2 to as3, as it is easier to spread and cheaper, and the performance difference is very small.

 

[0N1 L1nK]

Ok, thanks
I all i can really get a hold of is AS3, 'cos I live in New Zealand- I can't get a lot of stuff.
My other alternative is the AS "fraud" brand Titan, but I heard that it really sux.
My question is whether the generic brand will do on a CPU like mine? I read a review comparing AS2, CoolingFlow and Unick (http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/r_pastes/) and it says that Unick didnt do that bad (3-4 degrees higher), but it also says that this could cause a high end CPU to crash, is this true in my case?

 

[Remote]

I've used my fair shair of AS2, never tried AS3, and it's good. But if you have enough / adequete cooling in the rest of the case it shouldn't be needed... Esp if it's hard to come around...

 

[mesman00]

what the hell is thermal grease?

 

[Acorn]

Cpu Socket | CPU :| Thermal Grease 0 Heatsink [] Fan }

The thermal grease conducts heat between the cpu and the heatsink - because the surface of the cpu and heatsink is not completely flat. If it were there would be no need for it. Note: older systems might use thermal tape, which didn't tend to work very well.

 

[AlphaWolf]

just use generic thermal grease with a peltier.

 

[0N1 L1nK]

just use generic thermal grease with a peltier.

What's a peltier?