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What's the best third-party thermal compound that's still reasonably priced?

50Cent sweg.

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What's the best third-party thermal compound that's still reasonably priced?

 

MX-4 is very popular for a reasonable price

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I use MX-4 as well. 

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Choose the cheapest you find among these:

Noctua NT H1, MX4, Gelid GC Extreme, Prolimatek PK3

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I've seen nothing but good things out of IC Diamond -- it's my go-to compound when building now. On a lark I replaced the stock thermal compound on a GT 620 with IC Diamond and left the second one at stock, put both into the system and ran a Bitcoin miner against both. The card with IC Diamond stayed about 10C cooler than the card with the stock compound. I've seen drops in temperatures of >5C on AIOs when I replaced stock compound with IC Diamond. It's slightly more difficult to work with because it's a thicker paste, but works very well.

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gelid is the best...

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I like arctic silver 5

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NT-H1 or MX-4

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The one that includes the microfiber cloth is cheaper  :huh:

Just different sellers, get that one then and then buy what ever snack you can with 60cents  :lol:

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ive been using ceramique 2 and its been doing good so far 

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Just different sellers, get that one then and then buy what ever snack you can with 60cents  :lol:

Just bought the thermal compound and cloth. I can now get some sunflower seeds for 59 cents. Thanks :D  

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I think a thermal compound sticky would be a plan (pick which one you like or is going cheap unless you want to use Cool laboratorys or Indigo extreme)

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I use either Phobya HE grease or Noctua NT-H1 in all of my builds.

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Arctic Silver 5 here... 

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 |Logitech G900| |K70 Cherry MX Speed|  |Logitech Z906 |  |HD650|  |CaseLabs SMA8 (one of the last ones made)| 

 

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