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JustEbu
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Hello lovely LTT-Community ❤️ 

 

I wanted to ask if there is any good thermal paste? Currently i use the Noctua NT-H1 for my Ryzen 7 1700X at 4GHz. When i do a stresstest with Aida64 for 1 hour it get's never over 60° Celsius.

I hope you guys can recommend me a good thermal paste that is a bit better then the NT-H1.

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X @4GHz   GPU: Asus Rog Strix GTX 1080 A8G

Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix X370-F Gaming   RAM: G.Skill TridenZ 2x8GB 3200MHz CL14

Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 750D   Storages: Samsung 970 Evo 250GB, 250 SanDisk SSD, 2TB Toshiba HDD

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i 280mm AiO   PSU: Corsair RM750X 750W   Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit

Keyboard: Roccat Vulcan 120   Mouse: Roccat Kova   Headset: HyperX Cloud 2

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best ?

 

Arguably...

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut (non metalic)

or

Conductonaut (liquid metal)

 

NT-H1 is no slouch tbh, its a good TIM.

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even better paste can only bring temps by another 1 or 2 C down, so don't expect much

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Thermal paste is near meaningless, just get a decent one and call a day.

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8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

even better paste can only bring temps by another 1 or 2 C down, so don't expect much

I would have expected round about 5° Celsius difference but really only 1 to 2? Thats kinda low :/

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X @4GHz   GPU: Asus Rog Strix GTX 1080 A8G

Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix X370-F Gaming   RAM: G.Skill TridenZ 2x8GB 3200MHz CL14

Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 750D   Storages: Samsung 970 Evo 250GB, 250 SanDisk SSD, 2TB Toshiba HDD

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i 280mm AiO   PSU: Corsair RM750X 750W   Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit

Keyboard: Roccat Vulcan 120   Mouse: Roccat Kova   Headset: HyperX Cloud 2

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11 minutes ago, JustEbu said:

I would have expected round about 5° Celsius difference but really only 1 to 2? Thats kinda low :/

It depends on various factors, but generally between the better ones the differences in practice aren't great. Maybe if you had a really bad one to start with you would see a bigger change.

 

The only situation where it make much of a difference is if you are delidding an Intel CPU, or going extreme overclocking.

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25 minutes ago, JustEbu said:

I would have expected round about 5° Celsius difference but really only 1 to 2? Thats kinda low :/

because NT-H1 is a decent paste in the first place.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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57 minutes ago, porina said:

It depends on various factors, but generally between the better ones the differences in practice aren't great. Maybe if you had a really bad one to start with you would see a bigger change.

 

The only situation where it make much of a difference is if you are delidding an Intel CPU, or going extreme overclocking.

 

44 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

because NT-H1 is a decent paste in the first place.

I mean.... is it even possible to buy crappy paste now-a-day? You'd have to go out of your way considering even good paste is super freaking cheap. What exactly would be considered crappy paste? I got some "questionable" paste with my hyper 212, but other wise the only pastes I've collected have been Arctic silver 6 and the noctua pastes. 

 

I mean honestly all of these results (for the normal pastes) are within margin of error in my opinion. (Unless they're using a screenprinter or tape casting to apply the paste to the CPU, there's going to be variability, certainly more than 0.1 C. I doubt the temperature sensors inside the chip are even accurate to 0.1C.)

 

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So you guys suggest me to stick with my Noctua NT-H1?. If so it can't be helped :/ I really was hoping to lower it by about 5 degrees.

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X @4GHz   GPU: Asus Rog Strix GTX 1080 A8G

Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix X370-F Gaming   RAM: G.Skill TridenZ 2x8GB 3200MHz CL14

Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 750D   Storages: Samsung 970 Evo 250GB, 250 SanDisk SSD, 2TB Toshiba HDD

CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i 280mm AiO   PSU: Corsair RM750X 750W   Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit

Keyboard: Roccat Vulcan 120   Mouse: Roccat Kova   Headset: HyperX Cloud 2

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Which of the ones in thst graph is the one that comes with the hyper 212 evo

I hAve an unfinished pc build. Pls dont bully for not having one yet or i cry.

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