Arctic Cooling thermal pads

[karabas1]

Good day.
i have to install Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 Revision 2.
Question -
is it good idea to add some thermal paste or grease to thermal pads on video memory ?
I plan to OC my HIS EXcalibur X800 Pro AGP and looking for some extra cooling solution .
Thank you.

 

[djbbenn]

You can use a AS Ceramique/Alumina compounds, thermal pads will most likely do fine and will be the easiest. Just do not use any metal-based pastes on the memory chips if you don't use the pads.

-Dan

 

[karabas1]

zalman thermalpaste

Thanks for reply
I have some Zalman stuff remain after 7700 installed but this thing for CPU or GPU will it works on memory ?

 

[djbbenn]

That's usually metal based I believe, not sure though. The thermal pads will work great.

-Dan