Thermal paste

[CancerousNinja]

Is arctic silver 5 better or cooler MasterGel maker?

[Enderman]

Yeah but get MX4 or NT H1 instead.

[Shimejii]

Pastes are a bit of a challenge, the Gelid EX is also a very high performance paste and is asia. You should avoid A5 as it has its issues, and i wouldnt use CM gel maker, its a lower quality paste.

[aisle9]

Damn near all pastes are within 1-2C of each other. Don't pay a premium unless you plan to de-lid. Just get a tube of MX-4 or NT-H1 or Z5 or AS5 (beware of capacitive issues) or whatever that doesn't come in a jar from China and you're good.

 

My go-to paste for most situations comes in long, narrow tubes from China. Spreads like shit, but at $2 and with solid enough performance, I'll get my fingers dirty smearing it around.

[LogicalDrm]

They are bit like buying toothbrush. You pick what you like, in the end their performance is same.

[EsaT]

8 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

They are bit like buying toothbrush. You pick what you like, in the end their performance is same.

Except that toothbrushes can't cause any shorts unlike electrically conductive pastes like that hype-silver stuff which hasn't been on top in performance in long time.

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, EsaT said:

Except that toothbrushes can't cause any shorts unlike electrically conductive pastes like that hype-silver stuff which hasn't been on top in performance in long time.

Well equivalent in that analogy would be buying something thats too hard for your mouth. Ofc you need to check first if there's some limitations. But performance is still about same along the board.

[genexis_x]

On 6/19/2018 at 11:53 AM, CancerousNinja said:

Is arctic silver 5 better or cooler MasterGel maker?

Mastergel Maker Nano is better

On 6/19/2018 at 12:03 PM, Shimejii said:

and i wouldnt use CM gel maker, its a lower quality paste.

Mastergel Maker Nano is one of the best thermal paste you can buy

On 6/19/2018 at 11:55 AM, Enderman said:

Yeah but get MX4 or NT H1 instead.

Dry out quickly in laptops (OP has a laptop if I remembered correctly)

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Dry out quickly in laptops (OP has a laptop if I remembered correctly)

Source?

Never seen anyone have dry out, just a bunch of rumours from people who never used it once.

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

Source?

Never seen anyone have dry out, just a bunch of rumours from people who never used it once.

NBR forums

[Enderman]

4 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

NBR forums

By source I mean a link.

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

By source I mean a link.

I didn't save those links. Just search MX-4/NT-H1 dry/pump out

[Enderman]

53 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

I didn't save those links. Just search MX-4/NT-H1 dry/pump out

The problem there seems like the cooling block not contacting the CPU properly, which is due to the low viscosity of the thermal pastes, not them drying out.

I've had MX-4 in my PC for 4 years and no the temperatures have not changed since.

Plenty of other people USE MX-4 and NT-H1 with no problems so it's likely a cooler problem not a thermal paste problem.

A low viscosity thermal paste needs consistent mounting pressure or it will just get air bubbles.

[genexis_x]

26 minutes ago, Enderman said:

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laptop heatsink has low mounting pressure