Best Thermal Compound For Water-Cooling?

[Ghost]

I don't see why people are worried about conductive thermal pastes. Are people applying thermal paste to thier CPUs while they have power to the board? Cant people just wipe and spillages off?

Its like using non-conductive water for watercooling. If its spills you're screwed either way. But people still tend to buy the non conductive coolant.

[Harbz]

For me Noctua NT-H1 works a treat :D, i think its none conductive too so its all good :)

[MoeBrowne]

I don't see why people are worried about conductive thermal pastes. Are people applying thermal paste to thier CPUs while they have power to the board? Cant people just wipe and spillages off?

Its like using non-conductive water for watercooling. If its spills you're screwed either way. But people still tend to buy the non conductive coolant.

I guess people seem to have the mind set of: "Spend more on thermal paste and have no risk to my expensive hardware if i do spill some."

When in actuality you should be using so little that its near-impossible to get any anywhere but the CPU/GPU...

[Ghost]

I don't see why people are worried about conductive thermal pastes. Are people applying thermal paste to thier CPUs while they have power to the board? Cant people just wipe and spillages off?

Its like using non-conductive water for watercooling. If its spills you're screwed either way. But people still tend to buy the non conductive coolant.

Arctic Silver 5 IS an expensive paste.

[DjArtifact]

Coollaboratory liquid ultra. If you look at thermal paste benchmarks it beats everything out there.

[Kilmer02]

I don't see why people are worried about conductive thermal pastes. Are people applying thermal paste to thier CPUs while they have power to the board? Cant people just wipe and spillages off? Its like using non-conductive water for watercooling. If its spills you're screwed either way. But people still tend to buy the non conductive coolant.

The reason water kills electronic components is because its conductive...

And as for you non conductive water point, there are videos of people dunking their mobo into water and allowing it to PROPERLY dry and it will still owrk, as long as you don't try powering it when wet.

[VolkovBrad67]

I mainly use MX-4 for my rigs, my favorite so far.

[soupistasty5]

At the risk of adding my voice to the already loud 'choir'; I'm a fan of Arctic Silver 5.