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Best thermal paste for CPU and GPU EK waterblocks?

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What is the best thermal paste to use when watercooling your CPU and GPU for best temps?

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What is the best thermal paste to use when watercooling your CPU and GPU for best temps?

Hard to go wrong with Artic Silver 5, just like anything from Artic Cooling is great. However, IC Diamond is also a good choice

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I use noctua NH-T1 for my ekwb's. Temps are like 1-2 degrees lower then the thermal paste that come in the box.

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I use IC Diamond, anything with good reviews though will work almost as good.

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Ic diamond is great if you never plan on redoing it or changing cooling config. Removing it leaves majorly unsightly marks.

I'm a noctua tp person myself. Most of them preform basically identical and the biggest thing is not appling it like a dofus.

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What is the best thermal paste to use when watercooling your CPU and GPU for best temps?

 

The stuff they provide from Gelid is pretty decent quality but I used some MX4 I had since it gave me great temps before hand on air. 

As others have said ICDiamond will be the best all purpose compound unless you go into the extreme liquid metal stuff but is a bit more work on GPU's since it's conductive.

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