(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I bought a full cover waterblock to cool my motherboards northbridge, VRM, and mosfets and it says I need to use electrically non-conductive thermal paste for the northbridge. Is arctic silver 5 okay to use on the northbridge? I went to the website and it said it is electrically non-conductive but it is slightly capacitive. Here is what it says on the arctic silver website "While much safer than electrically conductive silver and copper greases, Arctic Silver 5 should be kept away from electrical traces, pins, and leads. While it is not electrically conductive, the compound is very slightly capacitive and could potentially cause problems if it bridges two close-proximity electrical paths."

Artic silver 5 is ok, just don't put more than a droplet on the north bridge. Artic silver is just a blend of aluminum and some other things i cant remember. As long as you don't spread it everywhere you are golden.

Also have to say its a bit pointless to cover the north bridge with a full water block. Do you want both the CPU and North bridge sharing hydraulical heat transference? (that's if you are using a single reservoir) Not to mention those water blocks pose high hydraulical restriction is most cases. So in reality you don't really need a water block for the north bridge / south bridge unless you are going for extreme overclocking, and at that point you don't want a cover that covers to the north bridge. You want a stand alone chipset block for all the individual areas.

-edit, a few mistakes.

I wanted it to do very high overclocking.