Best Thermal Paste?

[Havoc]

Just wanted to mention: I love your server!

Do you have it running F@H yet? If so, whats your ppd? ^^

 

Not folding yet... will be soon. Just getting things sorted, not fully finished using it for its primary purpose yet. But not long.

[Alexander0629]

There are so many good Thermal Compounds out there. What is the best one?

 

im using a cooler master hyper 212 evo

[wng_kingsley7]

Any thermal compound is good really. The slightest degree may make your a world record holder but for us consumers it's not a big deal.

I'd recommend anything that's generally well priced, enough quantity in the tube and the best of both worlds not too watery and not gluppy.

[Excon]

The most common well regarded ones are:

Arctic MX-4

Arctic Silver 5

Noctua NT-H1

Prolimatech PK-3

And any of the speciality liquid metal ones

[Lord Pantaloons]

The most common well regarded ones are:

Arctic MX-4

Arctic Silver 5

Noctua NT-H1

Prolimatech PK-3

And any of the speciality liquid metal ones

^^ Though I've not heard much about PK-3 I can personally vouch for Arctic Silver 5 and NT-H1, they are both excellent.

[Dragonzeanse]

Innovation Cooling Diamond. "Carat" is the weight, not the purity; 24 Carat just includes more thermal compound, which performs exactly the same. Xigmatek Freezing Point and Arctic Silver 5 are also good options.

 

But the difference between the best and worst thermal compound is like, 4 degrees at most. Let's face it, you're using a Hyper 212 Evo; that marginal difference should mean nothing to you. You're hardly K|NGP|N.

[flibberdipper]

I'm looking for a tube of thermal paste for a Thermaltake BigTyp Revo, and I was hoping it could be under $10, non-conductive, (hopefully) non- or near-non-capacitive, and is overall really good. Right now I'm looking at Arctic MX-2, but I'm curious if there's any other good thermal compound under $10.

[NInety]

I just use this.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007

[Intervalence]

I'm looking for a tube of thermal paste for a Thermaltake BigTyp Revo, and I was hoping it could be under $10, non-conductive, (hopefully) non- or near-non-capacitive, and is overall really good. Right now I'm looking at Arctic MX-2, but I'm curious if there's any other good thermal compound under $10.

What about arctic MX-4?

[4960X]

I've been using Noctua's NH-T1 and it's been great.

[Scionyde]

Noctua NT-H1 usually is usually pretty highly recommended.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Been using Arctic Silver 5 for as long as I can remember and it has never let me down. In the end the delta-T difference between the different pastes are so tiny that it's not even worth thinking about for normal use.

[ramtoe]

Artic MX-4, Gelid GC Extreme 2, Noctua NT-H1 or IC Diamond are my go to tubes.

 

Really depends on application

[DSD27]

Arctic Silver 5

[AMICLG]

IC Diamond and Indigo Xtreme are referred to the best in the industry but AS5 does the job.

[ramtoe]

Artic MX-4, Gelid GC Extreme 2, Noctua NT-H1 or IC Diamond are my go to tubes.

 

Really depends on application

 

If I may elaborate, It doesn't really matter a great deal which tube you go. But from my testing and experience

 

MX-4 tends to work best on a GPU for whatever reason so I just stick with that.

 

GC Extreme 2 is best for delid and direct on die application, but suffers from pump out over a 3-6 month period depending on how good your mount on the CPU is. So for applications where it will be hard to redo your paste (solid tube water loops, laziness etc) NT-H1 will perform within 5-10 percent of GC Extreme 2, but doesn't suffer pump out.

 

Then for a regular CPU that hasn't been delidded etc, IC Diamond is best.

 

 

For delids I mix and match between GC Extreme 2 or NT-H1 under the IHS and IC Diamond on top of the IHS and that gets the benifits of the pastes being in their comfort zone where they will get the most performance and best temps

 

Hope that helps

[MxRider9637]

Hello everyone, im not sure if this is the right section of the forum. sorry. 

 

My question it what it the highest quality/best thermal paste?

Which will get me the lowest temps?

Also my cpu cooler is a swiftech H220.

what do you guys recommend?

[miyabwah]

Arctic Silver MX-5 or anything that isn't toothpaste or mustard.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I use Arctic Thermal 5 and it's great. It's on my CPU and GPU.

You could also use IC Diamond.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Arctic Silver 5 or NT-H1

[pummetje]

gelid gc extreme is really awesome stuff

noctua nt-h1 is also great

 

i dont recommend liquid pro or liquid ultra they suck

[Faa]

Arctic Silver 5 or NT-H1

Meh AS5 is horrible.. That thing requires so much experience and tries or else you're hitting the max temp where your pc complety shuts down. Everytime I used that paste, I kept failing. Using nt-h1 for the first time worked perfectly for me.

[MxRider9637]

looks like ill be buying noctuas thermal paste. Thanks everyone!

[Lord Pantaloons]

Meh AS5 is horrible.. That thing requires so much experience and tries or else you're hitting the max temp where your pc complety shuts down. Everytime I used that paste, I kept failing. Using nt-h1 for the first time worked perfectly for me.

AS5 gave me better temps than NT-H1, the only reason I'm using NT is because I'm out of AS5.

 

learn2tim

[Faa]

AS5 gave me better temps than NT-H1, the only reason I'm using NT is because I'm out of AS5.

 

learn2tim

AS5 doesnt spread nicely as nt-h1 and with soft mounts like H100i's on 1155 nt-h1 gives much better temps. AS5 is nothing more besides junk compared to nt-h1.