Best Thermal Paste/grease

[Josh -_-]

Hi so I am going to be building my PC soon, and have a 5600x, and will be using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB CPU Cooler. I know Noctua thermal paste is considered good by just reading general opinions, but does any of it really matter? Thanks.

 

(Also what's the difference between thermal paste and thermal grease.)

 

Edit; I ended up getting NT-H2 noctua paste because i really trust them as a brand.

[WoodenMarker]

Thermal paste and grease are the same thing. The best pastes aren't much better than the decent pastes already bundled with coolers like the Hyper 212 RGB BE. 

 

Please don't make duplicate posts -- threads merged. 

[AntiTrust]

6 minutes ago, Josh -_- said:

Hi so I am going to be building my PC soon, and have a 5600x, and will be using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB CPU Cooler. I know Noctua thermal paste is considered good by just reading general opinions, but does any of it really matter? Thanks.

 

(Also what's the difference between thermal paste and thermal grease.)

not really I use arctic MX4 for most everything and it works well enough. for your use case, I would just stick to a standard paste - the noctua stuff is likely pretty good.

 

I think in tests thermal grizzly kryonaut is considered the best,

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Its either mx4 or kryonaut is what id go for

 

Or you can just use liquid metal though that will destroy aluminium coldplates

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

57 minutes ago, Josh -_- said:

Hi so I am going to be building my PC soon, and have a 5600x, and will be using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB CPU Cooler. I know Noctua thermal paste is considered good by just reading general opinions, but does any of it really matter? Thanks.

 

(Also what's the difference between thermal paste and thermal grease.)

 

cm has decent paste in the cooler. 

 

Though in the future if you run out of it, gelid gc extreme or thermalright tfx are pretty high performing pastes too. 

[DoctorNick]

NT-H2! It's better than kryonaut.. Changed my paste (kryo) after 1.5 years and it was fairly dried. Difference 5-6c on both cpu and gpu on full load

[freeagent]

I am using SYY-157.

 

It is very good.