Thermal Paste Confusion

[RedneckCajun]

Hello everyone, 

  I have recently put together a PC build & parts have begun arriving. One of the things I have left out was the thermal paste. I'm not going to be doing tons of builds so I don't need a big supply. The price point is low enough that I can look for small cooling improvements with things like paste. However, I am so lost at the moment and I'm not sure if I'm just zooming in on little measurements and going coo-coo OR is this normal and are there really this many material nuances in the thermal paste market?!

 

  I would greatly appreciate any opinions, product referrals, advice of any kind and if you really want to torture me, then send me some links to white papers with datasets that I can oogle over hours and not get any real return   
Here's a link to the build on PC part picker. Please note that this build was designed to purposefully leave out a GPU -and to be overclocked -and to be upgraded around Q1 2022 (CPU and a GPU add-on). (thermal paste and two more fans for the top of the case happen to be the two details I'm hung up on!) 

Thank you kindly all of you for your time and help
Cheers, 
~RC

 

[FRD]

I'm not a thermal paste expert, but all I can say is that Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is probably the best thermal paste out there. After that comes Arctic Silver and MX-4.

Seen in Linus' videos, Noctua thermal paste also seems to be pretty good and comes in bigger tubes. Thermal Grizzly is on average a bit more pricey per gram.

[RedneckCajun]

52 minutes ago, FRD said:

I'm not a thermal paste expert, but all I can say is that Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is probably the best thermal paste out there. After that comes Arctic Silver and MX-4.

Seen in Linus' videos, Noctua thermal paste also seems to be pretty good and comes in bigger tubes. Thermal Grizzly is on average a bit more pricey per gram.

Thank you very much. Sometimes even a little confirmation helps  I've been eyeballing those very three!! I then went and threw a monkey-wrench into the whole soup and watched this video from LTT. I really like the reuse part of this option! 
So is the IC pad going to serve an overclocked build better than paste over a longer period of time? With an overclocked box, I'm going to have to take that tube out, remove the cooler and re-apply paste ........ Aaaaaand right when I thought I was done (YEAH! someone else said Grizz! so that's gotta be it! Two is a perfectly reasonable sample size of opinions!) that blasted video from 2018 really peaked my curiosity .... By the end of this I'm going to be haunted by dreams of LTT store plugs !  

[bowrilla]

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme is the best regular paste, closely followed by the regular Kryonaut and other top shelf products like the newer Noctua, some Arctic stuff and so on. To be honest. Do not expect an advantage beyond 1-2K. A random Windows background process has a bigger impact.