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MX-2 vs MX-4?

frozensun
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Hey friends.

Currently I can not find MX-4 here in the only IT store in my city.

They just sell MX-2.

Can I go with MX-2,is it much worse to MX-4 in terms of cooling performance?

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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You should be fine

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You can also have a look at this test:

https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-thermal-paste

(Doesn't include MX-2, unfortunately)

 

Maybe your local retailer has something else in stock that is on that list. But as @Ya_Mi said, it's not that much of a difference. If you read the test on Tom's Hardware, you can see that pastes with highly different "performance values" (on paper) often have fairly similar results in practice.

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Oh okay.

How many applications can 4g last?

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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9 hours ago, frozensun said:

Oh okay.

How many applications can 4g last?

 

I've done 3 ~ 4 CPU, and 1 or 2 GPU applications with my single 4g tube of MX-4 ... and there is still probably 1/3 of the tube left?

It doesn't take much.

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