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CombatComedy
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I have already ordered Arctic Silver 5 and am gonna build my pc in a month or so and thought I would use it on my CPU (i5-7600k) but I have recently built my friend his computer and used Arctic mx-4 and it runs pretty cool (i5-6600 or 6500 I forgot) with his stock heat sink but I will be using a cryorig h7 heatsink, any opinions on which paste I should use? Thx

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I do not think it will matter at this point, since you're using higher-end thermal paste. A cooler upgrade, would be way more beneficial, if you want more cooling. 

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You don't need to upgrade beyond that unless you delid and get a way better cooler.

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The differences between thermal pastes - as long as they're not the cheapest silicon grease type of crap - is just 1-2 degrees. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day.

 

I personally use MX-2 and I'm happy with it. Arctic Silver 5 or MX-4 wouldn't be significantly better, so i'd say just stick with AS5 since you already ordered it.

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either is fine, unless you buy crap bulk thermal paste like linus did that one time there is unlikely to be more than a 1-2 degree difference

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can just use the paste that comes with the cooler. cryorig include very good thermal paste with their coolers, no need to buy anything different

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