Thermal Paste?

[King_Gamma]

Hey guys I'm going to re apply paste to my friend's CPU.

I was wondering what's a good brand of thermal paste to use.

Thanks for your input

[flibberdipper]

Arctic Silver MX-2 and Noctua NT-H1 are what I've been using, and they work great.

[Guest Generallee]

MX2

 

or Radioshack

 

Whatever, any thermal paste will do it's work there is a 1-2°c difference between the best and the worst

 

but don't use glue or something

[AMICLG]

AS5 is usually the go to thermal paste.

[Enderman]

Arctic cooling MX-4

[Izaya Orihara]

Coollaboratory liquid Ultra is the shit. 

[AMICLG]

MX2

 

or Radioshack

 

Whatever, any thermal paste will do it's work there is a 1-2°c difference between the best and the worst

 

but don't use glue or something

Actually bad thermal paste can dry up from heat causing for almost no thermal conductivity and that's likely the rat shack stuff.

[staman96]

Hey guys I'm going to re apply paste to my friend's CPU.

I was wondering what's a good brand of thermal paste to use.

Thanks for your input

 

 

I only use Arctic Silver 5 and MX-4 depending on the surface...for CPU you can use one of those two....

[ForsakenLive]

Artic Silver MX-4 is what I use.

the Innovation Cooling Diamond "7 Carat" is good too.

[Wats]

Coollaboratory liquid Ultra is the shit. 

the best but dangerous shit. lol you cant suggest that to a noob

[nj4ck]

the best but dangerous shit. lol you cant suggest that to a noob

just get the new pads. same performance as the liquid stuff and all you really need to do is throw it on there, burn-in and rock'n'roll.

[loccilucas]

NT-H1, MX-4, but it doesn't really matter, the difference is 1-3c

[Blecter]

Arctic cooling MX-4

This is the latest one I've been using. Got it on both my GPU's, and will use it on my CPU when I put in a custom loop. Works well and gets my recommendation.

As mentioned though, all the common ones are pretty close. You can look up tests online, but it really comes down to just choosing one to go with out of the commonly known good group.

[Izaya Orihara]

the best but dangerous shit. lol you cant suggest that to a noob

The liquid ultra is ver easy to use. Like any other TIM. It's not like it used to be in the past.