Question Is HT-GY260 thermal past is Electricity Conductive?

[Unknown Account]

Give Ans Yes or No

 

[jay32267]

Yes.

It is sold as

"HT-GY260 30g Thermal Grease Conductive Silicone Paste "

 

[Ralston18]

Not a yes or no question.

Thermal grease is used to improve the heat coupling between different components. A common application is to drain away waste heat generated by electrical resistance in semiconductor devices including power transistors, CPUs, GPUs, and LED COBs. Cooling these devices is essential because excess heat rapidly degrades their performance and can cause a runaway to catastrophic failure of the device due to the negative temperature coefficient property of semiconductors.

Factory PCs and laptops (though seldom tablets or smartphones) typically incorporate thermal paste between the top of the CPU case and a heat sink for cooling. Thermal paste is sometimes also used between the CPU die and its integrated heat spreader, though solder is sometimes used instead.

When a CPU heat spreader is coupled to the die via thermal paste, performance enthusiasts such as overclockers are able to, in a process known as "delidding"[3], pry the heat spreader (the CPU "lid") from the die, and replace the thermal paste, which is usually of low-quality, with a thermal paste having greater thermal conductivity. Generally, liquid metal thermal pastes are used in such instances.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease

 

[TJ Hooker]

Yes. It is sold as "HT-GY260 30g Thermal Grease Conductive Silicone Paste "

It is not clear whether they are referring to thermal conductivity or electrical.

It appears to be a typical silicone-based paste, which would be unlikely to be electrically conductive.

 

[DSzymborski]

I doubt it's electrically conductive. But it's going to be hard to get exact details since they're not provided; seems a little odd to save a dollar or two on an unknown paste that's all over Alibaba instead of something documented.