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The best Thermal Paste or Pads to buy in bulk

bcredeur97
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Have a little project at work coming up where I'll have to socket 18 LGA 3647 CPU's (Xeon Gold 6150's). I'm realizing we'll need quite a lot of thermal paste for that. 
So I'm wondering what is the best thing to get that you can buy in bulk that's relatively inexpensive? We don't need anything crazy, it just needs to work. Those CPU's aren't that hot haha


I was thinking too maybe if we could get sheets of the thermal pad material that would be a lot easier and cleaner, I'm just not sure what to get or where to get it! 
 

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1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Just a 25g paste of arctic thermal paste and call it good. Is like 20$ or so

Arctic sells 20g and 45g. Where I live the 45g of MX-4 cost very close to the 20g so...

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1 hour ago, leclod said:

Arctic sells 20g and 45g. Where I live the 45g of MX-4 cost very close to the 20g so...

Was remembering arctic ceramic 2 25g tubes woops 😛

 

But yeah arctic mx 4 in a bulk tube should be all op needs its like 20$ for 45g which is a steal

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Thanks guys! We'll just get a couple tubes of MX-4 🙂

"If a Lobster is a fish because it moves by jumping, then a kangaroo is a bird" - Admiral Paulo de Castro Moreira da Silva

"There is nothing more difficult than fixing something that isn't all the way broken yet." - Author Unknown

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51 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Thanks guys! We'll just get a couple tubes of MX-4 🙂

It's only 18 xeons you'll easily have half a tub of 45g left 😛

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58 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Thanks guys! We'll just get a couple tubes of MX-4 🙂

You can try syy-157, or for better performance TR TF-7. More expensive but one of the best is PTM7950 SP. Honestly, there's a long list of pastes that are within no more than 5 degrees of each other. 

 

Do not get Alphacool Silver. It is crap, even if you pay $1 for 100g.

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If you don't mind it being formed into a pad, get the PTM7950 pad instead. Put it in the freezer before applying it to make it easy to remove the plastic protective sheet, otherwise it can tear. LTT actually sells the pad, and is cheaper than most places,  including MODDIY.

I've been using computers since around 1978, started learning programming in 1980 on Apple IIs, started learning about hardware in 1990, ran a BBS from 1990-95, built my first Windows PC around 2000, taught myself malware removal starting in 2005 (also learned on Bleeping Computer), learned web dev starting in 2017, and I think I can fill a thimble with all that knowledge. 😉 I'm not an expert, which is why I keep investigating the answers that others give to try and improve my knowledge, so feel free to double-check the advice I give.

My phone's auto-correct is named Otto Rong.🤪😂

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