always, always use grease or tape! any data sheet will tell you that much. most tapes and greases are about equally effective despite the claims to the contrary, however there is a ceramic bearing grease from the company that makes the silver bearing grease which is considerably better you want the ceramic bearing grease from arctic silver specifically though i forget exactly what they call it (i think it's something like arctic ceramic' or whatever the french is for ceramic, more silly marketing ploys but it is excellent if you follow the directions which are important and specific). also make sure the fan is blowing on the heat sink and preferably across it rather than down on it which tends to create no airflow in the middle where you actually want most of the cooling (i.e. where the chip is on the other side, the more metal etc. the heat has to travel through the higher the resistance to heat transfer and hence the less effective the heat sink is). some of the fans that are right on top of the heat sink would be much more effective if they were to one side of the heat sink blowing across it. electronics people often make mistakes in mechanical design of heat sinks, as usual a broader knowledge of things often produces better solutions (though obviously some ee people do know more than enough to do it the best way possible, and marketing definitely can have a negative effect in some cases as well)
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