Need a little heatsink compound advise

[Slickone]

Is arctic silver the best thing to use on CPU HSF's? A few people have mentioned how it oozes out. I remember seeing some other silver grease advertised that said it didn't do this. Maybe it was the Quicksilver stuff? Where's the cheapest place to buy?

I've got a video card (Banshee) that I put a pentium HSF on using orange permatex gasket maker, since there was no clip, it's upside down, and the HSF is pretty heavy. This was a couple years ago, before I knew about arctic silver. I need to yank the HSF off temporarily to get access to the slot below it and re-attach it. Will thermal paste hold it? Are all thermal pastes similar? Cheapest place to buy?
Also, any recommendations on how to get the HSF off?!

 

[cnhoff]

First of all, yes, yes and yes, the Arctic Silver is the winner in all reviews I know. I have used it 3 or 4 times now and didn't run into any problems at all!

Secondly use Arctic Silver Epoxy glue, it has nearly the same thermal features and I think it is able to hold almost all coolers in place (perhaps except those 400+ g copper monsters).

 

[AnMig]

somebody else in this forum had suggested using plain arctic silver and leave small corners ungreased then use plain old super glue. I actually did this to my ge force2 mx with a small heatsink no fan.
I dont know how this will hold with a big hsf. then again its super glue so it should stay glued.

Just another option for you