best themal compound out there?

[1832vin]

i found some graphs, but it's like i;ve never heard of there brands, and i can't buy them in the UK,

like the coollaboratory thermal compound, cuz i still have to buy a anti-algea for my loop and a thermal compound, and my budget left if £12

and i need to enough thermal for watercooling both my GPU and CPU.  how many grams of the compound do i need?

[lohjiahung]

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound 3.5 Grams

[mathiasquach]

if you want the best of the best and dont care about price indigo extreme is recommended

LINK:http://indigo-xtreme.com/

[Paralectic]

toothpaste

[mapegl]

I use NT-H 1 from noctua. It is definitely one of the best. You might find something that gets you like a degree less, but not much more.

[lani100]

Noctua or arctic mx5

[Semper]

I've got no complaints with my Arctic Silver 5.

You can find better solutions out there, yeah, but i've not had AS5 fail me yet.

[FusionBlitzx]

I'd say Noctua NT-H1, Arctic Silver 5 or Indigo Xtreme is what I recommend.

[ArduousFormula]

I have done some research into this topic myself recently and found that - for me - Arctic MX2 was the best. It is non conductive, cheap and didn't seem bad in the benchmarks I saw, it would be my suggestion.

 

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound 3.5 Grams

 

The problem I have heard with that paste is that it has a long break-in time, being something like a week of power up/down cycles (or a year of normal use).

 

If you are new (like me) then it seems like a similar product to the ones that come with the H100, beQuiet and the like are good enough. I think that the MX2 comes under this section of easy-to-use low break-in time but effective pastes; however, the coolaboratory you are mentioning is much harder to use and a more advanced (hardcore almost, from what I have heard) product.

 

The differences are so small most applications will be fine with the Arctic MX2 and it allows you to make a mistake and not break the system. As for amounts, I have no clue. But it from the installation videos I have seen of GPUs, I wouldn't have thought you would need more than a tube of this stuff if you spent £12 on it.

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-008-AR

 

Don't quote me on the amounts, as I have never done it before. I think that should be enough though looking at the size of GPU contacts to the heatsink.

 

ArduousFormula

[turbobooster]

at the moment i stil use the compound from the corsair h75, normally a use cooler master ic-essential e2 gold

[Leonard]

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound 3.5 Grams

 

 

if you want the best of the best and dont care about price indigo extreme is recommended

LINK:http://indigo-xtreme.com/

 

 

I'd say Noctua NT-H1, Arctic Silver 5 or Indigo Xtreme is what I recommend.

You can't use Indigo Xtreme on GPUs as it is socket specific and they don't make for GPUs but it is a damn good TIM for CPUs once you have a low ambient like 28C and under.

 

I recommend IC Diamond, Noctua NT-H1,Liquid Ultra and Gelid GC-Extreme.

[1832vin]

do i need an anti-algea agent if my tubes are matt black, so no light is going in, them how does the algea grow?

[harrynowl]

Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra

[JamGorby]

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/thermal-compound-charts/benchmarks,155.html

[Priller]

I use AS5. I still have alot of that stuff left over. lol

[staman96]

Arctic Silver 5 and MX-4....

[BiG StroOnZ]

Prolimatech PK-3 always comes out on top when compared to other TIMs and it's the easiest to work with

[Phillyphries]

Antec Formula 7 NANO Diamond is some pretty good stuff. It's not liquid-y like the other high rated compounds you could find.

 

I personally have Formula 6 and it's pretty solid. It doesn't need the 300 hours of curing time either.

[I5ZQ8]

The general population seems to gravitate to the MX 2. Its not very expensive so get your self a few and see which one works the bestbfor you. Make sure to apply it correctly as well or you will get terrible temps. Too much is the same or worse as too little.

[patrickjp93]

You can't use Indigo Xtreme on GPUs as it is socket specific and they don't make for GPUs but it is a damn good TIM for CPUs once you have a low ambient like 28C and under.

 

I recommend IC Diamond, Noctua NT-H1,Liquid Ultra and Gelid GC-Extreme.

Correction: you can't use it on a GPU in its standard packaging. People have made it work. Somewhere over on Extreme Overclockers a nutjub drove the Titan Z up to 1.36 GHz using a peltier cooler with a chilled liquid loop on top of it, the pad sitting atop reflowed Indigo XS.

[Leonard]

Correction: you can't use it on a GPU in its standard packaging. People have made it work. Somewhere over on Extreme Overclockers a nutjub drove the Titan Z up to 1.36 GHz using a peltier cooler with a chilled liquid loop on top of it, the pad sitting atop reflowed Indigo XS.

That is a very rare case and yes you can do it that way but i am 99% sure OP was not referring to this specific case.

[turbobooster]

what is the thermal compound that is standard at the corsair,s aio wc???

 

 

do more people have any expirience with cooler master  ic-essential e2 gold?

[patrickjp93]

what is the thermal compound that is standard at the corsair,s aio wc???

 

 

do more people have any expirience with cooler master  ic-essential e2 gold?

Honestly you're probably best off with Promilatech, Arctic Silver, or Gelid for thermal pastes just following the various roundup guides from 2013. If you really know what you're doing with metal/metaloid reactions (some metals eat others) then you can get superior results going with Coolab's liquid metal TIM (used by delidders of the Haswell line and some Overclocking enthusiasts between the cooler and heatspreader) or the EKWB Indigo Extreme/XS.

[BiG StroOnZ]

what is the thermal compound that is standard at the corsair,s aio wc???

 

Shin-Etsu TIM

[patrickjp93]

Shin-Etsu TIM

Eh, I've seen mixed reviews about it. Often it comes all globbed up and unusable, or so thick spreading it is a nightmare. Maybe it was packaging problems, but that's what I've heard.