thermal grease or paste?

Just want a lil advice. i know eventually i will have to replace whatever i decided to use. just want to know if the paste stays thermally conductive longer than the grease and if so how long and how hard is it too remove from the cpu? thanks in advancethermal grease or paste?
I've always thought that thermal grease and thermal paste were the same thing. Maybe someone can correct me on that. Thermal paste is pretty easy to remove. Just use a cotton ball and rubbing alcohol and it'll come off really easily. thermal grease or paste?
well i just did some research and guess what...NOTE: Not intended for use between a CPU and CPU heatsink! Objects attached with Thermal Adhesive will stay attached FOREVER! Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive should be kept cold and away from UV light (sunlight and florescent lighting). We recommend refrigerating the unused material and allowing it to come to room temperature prior to use.so....... guess what i wont be using lol.
[QUOTE=''i_Drink_monster'']well i just did some research and guess what...NOTE: Not intended for use between a CPU and CPU heatsink! Objects attached with Thermal Adhesive will stay attached FOREVER! Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive should be kept cold and away from UV light (sunlight and florescent lighting). We recommend refrigerating the unused material and allowing it to come to room temperature prior to use.so....... guess what i wont be using lol. [/QUOTE]Of course you don't want to use that, that is thermal ADHESIVE, not paste.You want something like Arctic Silver 5, or Arctic Silver Ceramique, or some Arctic Cooling MX-2. Any of those will work great.
How long will Arctic Silver 5, or the typical paste, last before it has to be redone?
im not sure but right now im looking at arctic silver ceramique thermal compound and it sounds like after long time use its still has a conductivity of up to 140c and at its peak usage (between 100 and 300 hours of use) it has a conductivity of >180c!! anybody ever use this stuff before it sounds pretty dang good. and i read somewhere that if you a good computer user (i.e. turn your compy off when your not playing with it) that a good rule of thumb is every 6months to a year, depending on how much you use your computer
Damn that reminds me I should have got some mx-2 with the new heatsink fan I just ordered. Now I'm looking, one site is charging $19.18 for UPS ground, $186.59 next day air, but no sales tax outside Florida!!!1.
what the...... 186.59 just for next day thermal grease.......... and $20 for regular???? thats insanity
lol, I'm quickly discovering every website yanks you on the shipping big time. Some are only $3.50 for the product, but $10+ for ground shipping. I've used UPS and USPS Priority many times and there is no way it costs that much, and they're corporations that probably get quantity discounts.
yeah thats why im trying to bundle my grease into a larger order with fans and cable adapters. that way i can either get free shipping with another product or not feel like im getting raped by ups for some grease