Hi to all. Give your opinion on this. Electronic High temp. Transistors Thermal Paste vs Silver Thermal Paste (eg. Coolermaster, Zalman, Thermaltake, etc, etc) I'm just a shadow of my former self!

Gets all over the place if you are not careful. Depends. Are we talking power station sized or some guitar amp? For the most part the price tells us which is better. Not true in all cases. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

It's basically personal preference. Comparison testing has shown there's little difference between silver & silicone based grease. Zinc oxide (baby rash ointment) supposedly works quite well too, as does Vegemite...lol! http://www.dansdata.com/images/goop... I use this: http://radioshack.com/product/index...

I use silicone grease (a.k.a silicone dielectric compound, thermal grease). Paste can eventually harden and glue the heatsink to the cpu like crazy glue and be very difficult to remove. I've seen some cases where the heatsink would not come off even when warmed up and twisted sideways and you couldn't get the heatsink plus the cpu off without pulling the cpu straight up out of its locked socket (if you can't unlock the socket lever with the heatsink installed), and then you still have the problem of getting the cpu off the heatsink - prying is risky, and trying to cut through the "glue" line is difficult. e.g. I have a K6-2 cpu that still has the heatsink "glued" to it. Silicone grease never hardens, and it will handle up to 400 F/204 C.