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Hey guys I have a H110i GT and was wondering what the best 3rd party thermal paste would be.

Thanks!

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Hey guys I have a H110i GT and was wondering what the best 3rd party thermal paste would be.

Thanks!

I'd stick with the stock thermal paste. It's high quality and no worth replacing, imo.

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Hey guys I have a H110i GT and was wondering what the best 3rd party thermal paste would be.

Thanks!

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OK, gonna buy some chocolate.

Thanks, btw

Don't rule out lipstick, spray oil, butter, and diaper treatment.

 

Kinda weird that those are all better than chocolate, and no thermal paste at all.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

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Just pick one. The difference is negligible.

omg mayo is just as good as icy diamond ... wut even 

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omg mayo is just as good as icy diamond ... wut even 

That......I can't even.....wat?

 

That's just weird.

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That......I can't even.....wat?

 

That's just weird.

ikr , i don't even comprehend that chart D:

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omg mayo is just as good as icy diamond ... wut even 

No it's not. Icy Diamond will have way higher thermal conductivity, and that'll show at higher cooling requirements.

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Hey guys I have a H110i GT and was wondering what the best 3rd party thermal paste would be.

Thanks!

Just use the stock TIM. The difference between MX-4, AS5, Stock and Icy Diamond are minimal at best. 

 

If you're crazy like some of us are, you'll check out Indigo Xtreme. A metal that liquidizes at burn in and acts like soldering tin, increasing the thermal conductivity two to four times vs the best of pastes.

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Don't rule out lipstick, spray oil, butter, and diaper treatment.

 

Kinda weird that those are all better than chocolate, and no thermal paste at all.

Wait, what? xD

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Wait, what? xD

At the very bottom of the list, there is "no thermal paste" and "chocolate", apparently chocolate somehow makes your CPU hotter, than no thermal paste at all....which just doesn't make any sense.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

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At the very bottom of the list, there is "no thermal paste" and "chocolate", apparently chocolate somehow makes your CPU hotter, than no thermal paste at all....which just doesn't make any sense.

It does make sense if you think about it. Conducting heat is much like conducting electricity, where water is much better than air, but outright sucks compared to copper. Chocolate is worse than no paste at all, just like styrofoam would be. In addition you need to view the link between the CPU and the cooler as a bulk, not as a single material. I'll elaborate.

 

In the scenario of "No thermal paste", there is partial conductance between the heat spreader and the cooler, which is metal to metal, and the rest is air. In the scenario with chocolate as paste, you'll have nothing else other than chocolate to transfer the heat.

 

Then we'll look at the proportional difference between the materials.

 

(W/mK)

Copper - 400

Aluminium - 250

Quality TIM - 4-7

Water - 0.5

Wood - 0.1

Air - 0.025

 

By this you can see that just about anything is better than 100% air, but you'll also see that even partial contact by metal will be significant, even at just a few percent of the surface area. 

 

The conclusion by this should be that the bulk of air and metal is better than chocolate, but far worse than just about anything else :P

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As above the the included paste is good (I think the machine spreading might help too) As for the 3rd party pastes there isn't much in it.

BUT

There are two (that I know of) which are better:

Cool Laboratorys liquid pro and Ultra www.coollaboratory.com

Indigo extreme http://www.indigo-xtreme.com/

 

The performance gains are modest but you know :)

FYI They're both a real pain to clean off

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