OC 9700k thermal paste?

[Fristelm]

Running my 9700k at 5.2ghz, 1.38v 1.1v vccio 1.12v vccsa with turbo llc on my z390 aorus ultra. Under load draws 180w, cinebench r23 stable, vrvout reading measures 1.31v - 1.32v under load. Hottest core at 97c. Could I benefit from a repaste? I used a friends thermal paste that came with his cooler master air cooler around 4 years ago. Thinking of getting syy 157 as its only 5 bucks on amazon right now. What other pasts perform better? I want one that lasts a long time and can be used for gpus too.

[Guest]

As far as thermal paste itself goes, it can be used anywhere, there's no special type. Brand name, it doesn't matter as long as its a reasonably good brand, and any one you choose will be both condemned and praised, as long as the price you pay is somewhere in the higher middle tier you'll be fine.

[Fristelm]

6 minutes ago, Thomas4 said:

As far as thermal paste itself goes, it can be used anywhere, there's no special type. Brand name, it doesn't matter as long as its a reasonably good brand, and any one you choose will be both condemned and praised, as long as the price you pay is somewhere in the higher middle tier you'll be fine.

so is syy 157 ok? se

[1982 Original]

The difference between the best thermal compound the run of the mill compound is a couple degrees. As you said, you just want one that lasts a long time. Noctua NTH2 or Arctic MX4 are both good pastes and boast a long life. I think MX4 claims 8 years. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

cpu delidded or no? Thatll provide the biggest temp improvement, just delid with a thin razor you can get by destructively taking apart a generic shaving tool and apply liquid metal

 

For thermal paste id look at the higher end ones like gelid gc extreme (a more value highend option), maybe even nt h2

[Mick Naughty]

Yea, alot more effort for a soldered cpu. But might as well lap the die and lid if going that far. Just dont use a mono block if so.

I'd just let it burn, works all the same. Or turn it down.

[Dedayog]

2 hours ago, Randomizer23 said:

Running my 9700k at 5.2ghz, 1.38v 1.1v vccio 1.12v vccsa with turbo llc on my z390 aorus ultra. Under load draws 180w, cinebench r23 stable, vrvout reading measures 1.31v - 1.32v under load. Hottest core at 97c. Could I benefit from a repaste? I used a friends thermal paste that came with his cooler master air cooler around 4 years ago. Thinking of getting syy 157 as its only 5 bucks on amazon right now. What other pasts perform better? I want one that lasts a long time and can be used for gpus too.

I use thermal grizzly kryonaut.

 

Cuzgrizzlies are cool .

 

180w out if a 9700k?  Damn, wonder what my 9900k pulls.

[Ebony Falcon]

Soldered chips are hard to do please don’t bother with that u will probly kill it.

thermal grizly is good stuff

 

u could also use liquid meta ontop of the ihs iv done it on gpus and my 4790k back in the day and it took 5c of. Delid took 25c off and then an extra 5c with metal between the ihs and cooler