The efficacy of the thermal conductive silicone grease is to fill the gap between the CPU and the radiator and to transfer the heat. The heat sink is made to immediately touch the CPU and inevitably there is a gap, only in the past the thermal value of the CPU was not large, the key total area is large before we ignore the effectiveness of the thermal conductivity silicone. Today's CPU, especially AMD series products, if you do not pay attention to the problem of thermal paste is very easy to produce damage to the CPU risk.
There are two types of thermal paste on the market today, canned and tube-mounted. Generally speaking, tube-mounted is good, as the canned thermal paste has a layer of sticky silicone rubber on it, it is difficult to separate it from the thermal paste underneath,which will affect the CPU heat dissipation afterwards.In addition, there are many enthusiasts who use special thermal pastes in order to give the cooler a better heat transfer performance.
