Choose the right thermal grease to enhance cooling efficiency.

As an important part of the cooling process, thermal grease may seem inconsequential, but it actually plays a very significant role in the entire cooling process. Choosing the right thermal grease can greatly help improve the cooling effect of components!

How can you improve the cooling performance of components? The performance of the cooler itself? Correct, but have you considered other factors that can affect cooling? thermal grease! What we're talking about here is thermal grease. Everyone knows how to correctly apply thermal grease, how to increase the contact between the cooler and CPU to improve cooling. However, when faced with thermal greases of different colors and types, have you ever thought that choosing the right paste not only helps improve cooling capacity but also brings a good noise reduction effect? More importantly, it can save us the cost of upgrading the cooler.

Due to the non-curing, high thermal conductivity, and low price characteristics of thermal grease, it has become a mainstream product in the current DIY market. Most thermal greases are composed of silicone oil and fillers, and the different fillers give the paste various colors. Thermal conductive silicone is usually used on low-end graphics cards and other devices. Some pastes solidify after use, making it difficult to remove, and are not suitable for use on civilian CPUs. Their thermal conductivity is worse than that of thermal grease, and once solidified, it is difficult to remove the cooler, which is not convenient for players' daily cleaning and upgrading. Therefore, players usually use thermal grease.

For thermal grease, its performance parameters are not much less than those of a computer case. For ordinary players, we only need to focus on its thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient.

thermal grease currently available on the market is commonly found in white and gray colors. As the name suggests, the main component of thermal grease is silicone oil, which is characterized by stable properties, resistance to high and low temperatures, and does not become thick or thin, plus it is not prone to evaporation and is inexpensive, making it the current mainstream thermal conductor.

▶ White thermal grease

The white thermal grease mainly consists of silicone oil, with relatively few additives, and its thermal conductivity is weaker, so the price is very cheap. We often see it on some low-end graphics cards. However, with the increasing demand for cooling in current hardware, this white thermal grease has gradually withdrawn from the market.

▶ Gray thermal grease

Gray thermal grease has more additives inside, so the color is relatively darker. Most gray pastes have fillers such as graphite and aluminum powder inside. However, since metal powders have a certain degree of electrical conductivity, if they overflow, they can damage the hardware, so some thermal greases now use highly insulating metal oxides to ｒｅｐｌａｃｅ metal powders, allowing players not to worry about electrical conductivity. To further improve the thermal conductivity of the paste, some manufacturers now add a certain proportion of silver powder to the paste.

Shenzhen Anpin Silicone Material Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to the research and development, production, and operation of new materials such as thermal grease, electronic adhesives, thermal encapsulants, water-based paints, and thermal soft films. http://www.apsi.cn/