Subject	Actually Thermal Paste or Epoxy is for CPUs
Posted by	Thrillhouse on May 26, 2004 at 2:39 PM
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In Reply To	it is typically designed to sit on top of CPU's that get posted by spotz on May 26, 2004 at 12:55 PM
Message	There is one key difference between di-electric grease and thermal paste. Di-electric grease is conductive, whereas thermal paste is not. If you filled up one of the connectors on your car with thermal paste you would most likely break the connection, or at least make it worse than it was before. Thermal paste is only to be used as a heat conductor, not as an electrical conductor. Think about it, if artic silver was conductive and you spilled some on your motherboard without knowing it, you could easily connect two traces and either make things not work or cause sparks to fly. You gotta stick with di-electric grease for electrical connections.
Follow Ups	is there such a product as high-temp dielectric grease? >> - stockplayerz (NYC) 12:03:41 05/26/04 the di-electrc grease doesn't remove corrosion. You need - boileralum 12:54:01 05/26/04 it is typically designed to sit on top of CPU's that get - spotz 12:55:02 05/26/04 Actually Thermal Paste or Epoxy is for CPUs - Thrillhouse 14:39:30 05/26/04 Dielectric materials are NON-conductive... (n/m) - Steve-O 14:49:23 05/26/04 You are correct sir - Thrillhouse 14:51:47 05/26/04 Metal to metal still makes the connection bridge - Steve-O 14:55:25 05/26/04 The heat shouldn't bother it, its heat range is well above - Moxie 12:56:10 05/26/04 I have also wondered about using somthing like Artic - colocomp (Denver) 12:56:57 05/26/04 You don't want to do that - Marshall 17:42:28 05/26/04 That is what I did. Use very little of it because - Spongerider :) 13:43:43 05/26/04 I filled every connector on my car with di-electric grease - PLEAZURE in CA (SD) 16:13:48 05/26/04
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