I would like to know if anyone has had success using an alternative substance for thermal paste. (I heard wheel bearing grease was good)
I do appreciate the warnings, but I am not worried about the hardware and it will be fun to test.
I would like to know if anyone has had success using an alternative substance for thermal paste. (I heard wheel bearing grease was good)
I do appreciate the warnings, but I am not worried about the hardware and it will be fun to test.
You'll usually get better than nothing performance for every greasy thing you can place and some people say that water works fine too. The main problem is that most of the unusual greases will evaporate over time and behave badly when they dry. So if you really need something which is not thermal paste, get some grease designed for high temperature operation which will not dry out quickly. Oh and it needs to be stable enough not to corrode CPU heatspreader or heatsink.
And don't forget to use thin layer! There needs to be just enough to cover the processor and heatsink surface.
I wouldn't recommend anything but thermal paste, you need something non conductive. And just to be on the safe side I would use Thermal Paste.
I currently have used Arctic Cooling MX-2 and Arctic Silver 5.
I don't know where you heard that. Grease is to reduce friction, which may cause less heat to be created, but there is no significate friction where the processor meets the fan so there is none being created that way anyway. It is not designed to dissipate heat.
BUY THERMAL PASTE.