My dad just bought a 125g thermal paste (for 19,69 Euro) for the solar water heater on the house(there is a a cooper tube in each solar tube o the system that transfers the heat from the external tube to the liquid in the system and so on... it's a pressurized water heater solar system). It has the exact same color and texture with an Arctic MX-4(in my case) but it contains 60% metal, so it electrical conductive.
The question is since it has the same texture as a normal thermal paste and it's not as liquid as liquid metal to be hard to apply it on the surface can I safely use it instead of my thermal paste considering that I would make sure that it won't go over the edges of the CPU's heatsink and will it transfer more efficient the heat from the CPU to the cooler than my thermal paste since it contains metal in it?
The question is since it has the same texture as a normal thermal paste and it's not as liquid as liquid metal to be hard to apply it on the surface can I safely use it instead of my thermal paste considering that I would make sure that it won't go over the edges of the CPU's heatsink and will it transfer more efficient the heat from the CPU to the cooler than my thermal paste since it contains metal in it?