Best Thermal Paste?

[Super0609]

What is the best thermal paste? I am thinking about changing my thermal paste in my laptop, but i dont know which one is good.

[OU812]

Im a Arctic Silver 5 guy.

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, Super0609 said:

What is the best thermal paste? I am thinking about changing my thermal paste in my laptop, but i dont know which one is good.

Thermal Grizzly kryonaut.

 

4 minutes ago, OU812 said:

Im a Arctic Silver 5 guy.

I used to be, but 1) its conductive which can be an issue for some in certain situations 2) kryonaut is better and isn't conductive, so literally a win win all the way around

[DominicNikon]

I like thermal grizzly kyonaut and kpx thermal paste (kingpins store) 

[OU812]

15 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Thermal Grizzly kryonaut.

 

I used to be, but 1) its conductive which can be an issue for some in certain situations 2) kryonaut is better and isn't conductive, so literally a win win all the way around

Meh, been out of the PC game long enough to not know a change in the best.

[ausham]

Best is subjective. Best as in temps then it's solder or liquid metal compounds.

But for a laptop I wouldn't use liquid metal. But I know others have just fine. The stuff phyoba sells is rather good and I been using it a lot these days.. 

[Guest]

MX-4 is a decent paste.

[Praesi]

I use Artic Silver. But any decent Paste will do.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Air Cooling

[freeagent]

Just throwing this out there.. AS5 is not conductive, it never has been. People must be confusing conductive with capacitive. I use Thermalright TF8, but there is better.

[Tan3l6]

There's always a recent thermal paste recommendation to be found.

Like - https://thermogears.com/best-thermal-pastes/  

 

[CommanderAlex]

8 hours ago, OU812 said:

Im a Arctic Silver 5 guy.

I switched over to Noctua's NT-H1 and actually saw a -5 degree delta over max temp using NT-H1 when compared to AS5 (In short, 5 degrees C lower using NT-H1 over AS5. 

Now I've used AS5 for many years now using the same two tubes I've had and still works just as good, although, it does seem to not perform as well in a MacBook Pro 13 2014 (replaced with NT-H1 and temps lowered as well). 

11 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Just throwing this out there.. AS5 is not conductive, it never has been. People must be confusing conductive with capacitive.

 Very true as stated from the home page for AS5: 

Arctic Silver 5 was formulated to conduct heat, not electricity.
(While much safer than electrically conductive silver and copper greases, Arctic Silver 5 should be kept away from electrical traces, pins, and leads. While it is not electrically conductive, the compound is very slightly capacitive and could potentially cause problems if it bridges two close-proximity electrical paths.)

 

 

[TehDwonz]

5 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

[MX-4 Pic]

Yep, use that myself on most builds. If you define "best" as performance per dollar, MX-4 is king.

 

[bowrilla]

It does not really matter. However the best non-metal paste is probably Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. The difference between the best and the average thermal paste is ~1-2K. That's negligible and within margin of error. A stupid Windows background process can have a bigger impact. See this (older) Tom's Hardware roundup. Heck, even bloody toothpaste was just 10K worse than the best thermal paste. 

 

Bottom line: just use a paste from a reputable brand and stop bothering. 

[freeagent]

Between people using too much or too little paste it probably does not matter what the masses run.. people running the best or worst could be getting nearly the same results