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Right, so, I'm in a bit of a conundrum here and can't decide which to get; from all the info I've been able to gather, the NT-H2 is minisculey better than the MX-6, but then a couple people here n there say the MX-6 is slightly better; most of these reviews and comparisons I've seen were either BS youtube reviews (tells you nothing useful till the end, and when you get to the end you still barely have any info or they just tell you either one is good) or with older pastes, like the MX-4 vs the NT-H1. Anyways, I'd like to repaste just about everything I have, with intent with not just performance but longetivity, hence why I'm staying away from Grizzly. I do plan on getting some PTM7950 in the future, but I need paste very soon and preferrably under $15. What I plan on using the paste for is, well, firstly, a Ryzen 9 7900X paired with the new Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360, yes I know it comes with a small tube of MX-6 but I still need paste for the other stuff, right now for a couple of Xeon E5-2690 v4's that will be paired with a couple of Noctua NH-U9S's in the near future (used in a barebones Dell Precision T7910 I just got off of ebay), right now only one cpu will be paired with my previous cooler, the be quiet Shadow Rock 3 White, and then less importantly, my laptop, an HP Victus 15 something something, with a Ryzen 5 5600H and a GTX 1650 (Repasting 'coz during both the 3DMark Time Spy stress test & benchmark done an hour ago, temps easily reached above 90c), and then even less importantly, my MSI 6650 XT Mech 2X (does anyone know if repasting the gpu will void the eligibility for Micro Center's GPU Trade-In program? I doubt it but I also don't know), and some old-ish workstation GPU (not purchased yet, most likely will be a Quadro K2200, will def need a repasting when I do get one though). The GPU & Laptop repastings can hold off a bit, just something I might wanna do at some point in the near future. I did purchase a tube of NT-H1 when I upgraded to the 7900X back in late February, but it's somehow dissapeared and in my search for it I've come across a tube of old MX-2, some Hydronaut, and a tube of some unknown paste, probably what came with my Shadow Rock 3. As for what I've currently got on my 7900X, it's nothing because I purchased a Corsair Link H150i last week but due to cpu temps reaching over 90c easily, I returned it, currently waiting for amazon to process the return so I can then purchase the Arctic LF3 alongside the paste and some intake fans (3x NF-P14s redux-1500 fans). So, uh, yeah. Which one? Performance & Longetivity.

I'm planning to build a pc with a ryzen 7 7700x, which has a thermal output of 105 watts, but I don't know what thermal conductivity my thermal paste for it should have. I've already found a 5w/mK thermal paste, but i'm not sure if it'll be sufficient.

Hello everyone, I don't know if this is the right section to ask but... I'm going to change the thermal paste of my laptop and I was looking up online and everyone is saying to use isopropyl alcohol but I don't have it with me. Is there any substitute for it? Thanks in advance

I only have 70% isopropyl alcohol on hand and the thermal paste I'm using is from nuctua. I saw youtube videos of people putting in alcohol on the socket and using a tooth brush to clean. I tried doing the same thing but I just but in a little bit of alcohol to clean.

So I've been searching for best thermal paste in terms of its effective service life lately and got stuck in a dead end. I need a thermal paste for my gaming laptop that can last for a minimal of 1-2 years, any recommendations?

I'm thinking of replacing the thermal paste that came with the stock cooler on my i5 10400F with HY510. Anyone know the thermal conductivity on the stock coolers or is it better to use HY510 (it's all I got currently).

New to LTT forums so I hope this is the right place to ask. In HWInfo, my normal "GPU Temperature" is usually fine, maxing out at 70C, but my hotspot temp consistently gets to 90-95 under moderate load, and playing intensive games like Cyberpunk can bring it up to 105 or so. I've tried opening up my case and pointing a fan on full-blast at it to see if it was just an airflow issue, but that only decreased temps by 2-5C. I've also tried some of the basics like updating drivers and dusting my card with compressed air. The only thing left I can think of is to repaste, but I'm not an expert at this stuff and I don't want to ruin my graphics card in the middle of an already busy semester. In case it matters, my card is the MSI Ventus XS OC 2080 Super.

As the title suggests i've been using my rx 6700xt for almost 2 years now, never really monitored the temps since i've got the card after the release brand new. Warranty is almos over and i was thinking about repasting it just to be sure. My current temps are around 75c after a good hour of gaming. Hotspot is usually 10 to 15c higher. This with the default fan profile. With fans on 85% the card runs cooler by around 5c. Also was thinking of adding some thermal pads under the backplate so it will actually make contact with the card and dissipate some of the heat generated. I am open to suggestions. Should i change the paste and add some pads to the backplate or it is not worth it with my current temps? Thanks in advance, Cris

Looking for a premium thermal paste, regardless of price, ive used SYY157 for the past few cpus and am looking at MX6 as a replacement Im wondering if there are any much higher performance (relative) , enthusiast grade non-conductive thermal pastes that anyone can recommend?

I have a ROG Flow X13 with R9 5800hs, 16 GB RAM, and GTX 1650. I am noticing very low performance on games and on running bechmarks I see the gpu reaching 92 deg C really fast and then reducing the clock speed from 900 Mhz to 300-400 Mhz. I remember seeing low FPS in games similar to this last year and was able to fix it by just cleaning the fans, however that doesn't seem to work now. I am thinking maybe its the thermal paste which has gotten old and I am considering replacing it. Looking up my laptop shows that it uses liquid metal on the cpu and thermal paste on the gpu by default. I am thinkinng of ordering "Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Liquid Metal - (1.0 Gram)" for the cpu and "Noctua NT-H2 3.5g" for the gpu. This is how the cpu and gpu thermal application looks like(from a random yt video): And this is the before and after of me cleaning the fans last year: also, I have tried updating the graphics driver, bios, and running on manual max fan curves and still dont get the performance I remember getting on the same games. any suggestions on what I can do?

Hi, I need to repaste my gpu and I've recently lost my spreader and I did google substitutes and it came up with glue spreaders. Funny question but would that properly work in some sense it would but I'm overcomplicated it. Surely it would work fine right?

I just repasted my laptop with new thermal paste, but it wasn't until now that I asked if it will slowly slide out since I am resting it on one of those cooling pads(>45° angle) . I couldn't find anything about this online because of poor wording or I am not specific enough, so I thought about asking here instead.

I just replaced the thermal paste on my Asus ROG Strix G531gt I made sure everything was plugged in before closing it and reassembling. i was following a tutorial on how to do it by a creditable source. and when i was done i tried to boot it up and nothing, i tried to force restart with holding power button and nothing the lights turned off but nothing else came on.

I've been occasionally repasting both my personal Laptops and some devices at work. But I've always run into issues: The temps are great for the first couple days, but just a few weeks / months after repasting, the CPU is back to old temps. One year later, I even had a few devices crashing because of the CPU overheating under load. After some googling, it turns out that the regular thermal paste (Arctix MX4 / MX5) that I've been using, isn't ideal for direct die application. I suppose it doesn't as well, because of pump out. Reddit recommends to go with high viscosity thermal compound, such as Gelid GC Extreme or Honeywell PTM7950. What is generally considered the best price/performance thermal compound for laptops? And is there a difference in what I should use between repasting office and gaming laptops?

I have gotten a mixed bag of oppinions on this from people I have talked to other places. There were three that I heard the most. 1. Some say that I really should and it will help me get the best performance from the CPU. 2. Others say it will be fine for a while, but I might want to replace it a year or so down the road it I see average gaming temps rise. 3. A third common oppinion that I got was that I should do what ever I felt comfortable with. (This one is funny considering I was asking because I was uncertain.)

So yesterday i bought a noctuna nt-h1 for my i5-11400, i applied it and yes temps did change a lot even with the stock cooler. i applied it yesterday and i took the cpu cooler off today because i felt like i applied too much but nope it perfectly is spread across the CPU surface and fan base. Do i need to re-apply tho since i took the heatsink off ? or is it good to go ?

Dear users of LTT Forum, the following states my PC Specs: - i5 9400f - Galax RTX 2060 - 8x2 8gb DDR4 - Stock CPU Cooler (the push pins) I assembled the PC on November 2020, just before the pc market in my country went bazinga. For the past 4 - 5 months, the CPU had been idling at 50 - 70C. My GPU also started becoming hot while loading games. So I replaced the thermal paste on both the CPU and GPU. After that, the temps are still at 50 - 70C on my CPU and my GPU is much better while playing games. The thing where I'm most concerned is my CPU as when I opened up Apex Legends, my CPU's stock cooler started going really fast and while checking the temps, it went all the way upto 90C! It was hovering over 80 - 85C at that time IN THE LOADING SCREEN! I honestly don't know what to do now and I barely have time to play games too, but when I do and this happens, it's just sad. I did log from HWiNFO a few times after re-applying thermal paste for reference. Help offered to this problem would be really beneficial! I shall be thankful to thy great! 24_04_23.CSV 25_04_2023.CSV

So after my fake MX-4 incident i changed my thermal paste to this. Is this fake?? Does this paste even have fakes like the MX-4? And how good does it perform??

So for many years my i5-11400 always topped at 78C under the heaviest load 95-100% with the stock cooler when i bought it. After around 2 years my temp became 94C under load. So i replaced my thermal paste with an MX-4 that looks like this. And the temperatures did not change. And i mean at all. So i emailed Arctic and they said its 90% fake. But they need to check with their Department of something. Anyway a friend of mine suggested the Noctua NT-H1 (I live in Egypt so a new cpu cooler is 80$+) Will the NT-H1 show any differences than the fake MX-4 im using right now? If yes is it worth it? Or do i get the cooler master mastergel pro v1 or 2?

Excuse my bad English i will try to be as clear as possible , my i5 11400 while playing the last of us or battlefield 4 for example i get my CPU up to 77C or even 80C during BF4 on gameplay and 88C on the last of us. (i have bad cooling in my case but i try to keep it as cool as possible with all the fans etc) And i tried checking the thermal paste on my cpu and it seems like as some parts are still moist as if it's just been applied some parts are dried out. (And yes its the stock thermal paste attached to the stock cooler. Now my question is , will this be a good thermal paste to replace my current one ? The MX-4 is expensive for me (480 LE) and this one is like 300 so i can afford that. But is it any good ? And no thermal grizzly isn't sold where i live and if it is, it's 700+ LE.

I tried my best to find a good thermal paste to buy where i live..(Egypt) and i couldn't find the coolermaster mastergel pro v2 that i wanted and on amazon my order got cancelled for no reason. So i got this one. I wiped the old paste off and applied this one. i can say on idle temps they did drop from 50-49 to 42-40 now. But during gaming i am afraid its the same..goes up to 87 during stress tests even (for my i5-11400 CPU) Soooo..did i just waste my money ? Or am i doing something wrong ? I tried to check if i applied enough paste from these temps by removing the cooler and yes its covered up pretty nicely no shady or dried up parts. its perfectly fitted. So what do i do..? do i just live on with it and ignore it will it damage my cpu ? or do i do something quick about it ? (Also that 87C during gaming is at 100%-90% load)

A bit of context for you I really like Noctua coolers from the performance I I seen for them and the Deep Cool LS720 seems pretty promising for an AIO. The Buget of the build is $2500 and I am coming pretty close to it already.

just made an account specifically to test this, and i'd lie to start it with saying if you want to flame the hell out of me, do it, i deserve it. now unto the issue, my pc kept shutting off abruptly, checked, cpu is too hot, checked that, thermal paste was so dry it flaked off into balls and was grainy. bought some thermal paste a friend recommended, also asked him how he could the old paste off, he told me he did it with perfume, smart me from 2 days ago didn't think to question this, i cleaned it off with perfume, then my brain started working, a quick google search showed that you're really not supposed to use perfume, what does smart me from 30 minutes ago do? get a paper towel, drip some water on it until it is barely wet, and then wipe off the cpu and heat sink until they dont smell like perfume anymore then wipe it with a dry paper towel just to make sure. now im wondering, did i just fuck up my pc?

Hey everyone! I'm trying to improve my GPU temps (RTX 2080 TI Gaming OC) because after two years of using the card they pretty much suck (see one of my older posts). After some testing and reading about it online it seems that the thermal paste and pads used by Gigabyte aren't that great and that's why I want to replace them. The repasting (I'm gonna use NT-H2 for that) and changing of the thermal pads doesn't sound that difficult but I'm worried about choosing the right thickness for the pads. I've found these pictures of the cards backplate, PCB and heatsink but I can't find an exact measurement of how thick they are. I believe they should be 0.5mm around the GPU and the rest on the PCB uses 1.0mm. The backplate should be 3.0mm but I probably won't change them because I can't find such thermal pads online. Because this is my first time opening a graphics cards I wanted to ask if anyone has any tips or additional information for me. Maybe I even overlooked something or someone knows the actual thickness of the thermal pads used in this card. Thanks in advance!

I don't know where to find them.