Laptop Thermal Paste?

[Theguywhobea]

Is there any community consensus on what paste we should be using for laptop CPU's and GPU's?  I just got a used EVGA SC17 and I think it could use a repaste. I have a bunch of arctic silver, but everytime I bring up Arctic silver people loose their minds about how it's "actually the worst thermal paste every for laptops"

 

Is this true? Or should I just chuck some arctic silver on there?

[Crunchy Dragon]

I've had Arctic Silver 5 on most of my electronics, never had any problems with it.

 

Edit: there's no real consensus that I'm aware of as to which thermal compound is best for a certain product

[Levent]

I have been using AS5 on my laptops, phones, pcs. How the hell is that the worst one?

[Theguywhobea]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've had Arctic Silver 5 on most of my electronics, never had any problems with it.

 

Edit: there's no real consensus that I'm aware of as to which thermal compound is best for a certain product

 

Just now, Levent said:

I have been using AS5 on my laptops, phones, pcs. How the hell is that the worst one?

It might have not been on this forum, but I'm fairly sure I remember bringing up using Artic Silver 5 and a lot of dudes getting triggered.

[Levent]

Just now, Theguywhobea said:

 

It might have not been on this forum, but I'm fairly sure I remember bringing up using Artic Silver 5 and a lot of dudes getting triggered.

AS5 used to trigger some kids here because they claimed it was "conductive".

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Theguywhobea said:

It might have not been on this forum, but I'm fairly sure I remember bringing up using Artic Silver 5 and a lot of dudes getting triggered.

I've not seen that happen anywhere, personally.

 

In my experience, it's a fantastic compound.

[Theguywhobea]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

AS5 used to trigger some kids here because they claimed it was "conductive".

 

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've not seen that happen anywhere, personally.

 

In my experience, it's a fantastic compound.

Yeah alright, that makes me feel a bit better.

 

Let's see what the laptop master themselves has to say about it @genexis_x

[nick name]

Welp, you're both wrong.  Artic Silver 5 is by far the worst tasting thermal paste.  

 

But in seriousness -- I haven't seen anyone say it's terrible and if it's what you got then you should use it.  

[genexis_x]

Performance of Arctic Silver (eg AS5) isn't great but will work fine in laptops

 

Would suggest CM Mastergel Maker Nano. Close to Kryonaut performance, but works well in all kinds on heatsinks (eg tripod heatsink, uneven surface), and doesn't dry up fast like Kryonaut. Good availability and price too

 

More options: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/which-thermal-paste-to-buy-and-apply-traditional-and-liquid-metal.806840/

[Big Doug]

On 1/4/2020 at 2:44 PM, Theguywhobea said:

Is there any community consensus on what paste we should be using for laptop CPU's and GPU's?  I just got a used EVGA SC17 and I think it could use a repaste. I have a bunch of arctic silver, but everytime I bring up Arctic silver people loose their minds about how it's "actually the worst thermal paste every for laptops"

 

Is this true? Or should I just chuck some arctic silver on there?

Check this out.

[panzersharkcat]

Arctic Silver 5 is fine, though I personally use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut.

[Theguywhobea]

9 hours ago, Big Doug said:

Check this out.

Well isn't this thermal expoxy? I'm not trying to make anything permanent lol. Besides this thread is old, I already slapped some arctic silver on there.