Best thermalpaste?

[Tazman192]

Just been issued a refund for my processor that I ordered over a year ago because I figured it's a really bad overclocker. Oh I love Amazon.

 

I've been using arctic silver-5 but I've been told it's no longer the best out there. What do you guys recommend I use when my 4690k comes?

 

Cheers.

[NeatSquidYT]

Arctic MX-2/4 or IC Diamond are the best.

[Tazman192]

 

Arctic MX-2/4 or IC Diamond are the best.

 

 

Artcic MX-4 is alot cheaper than IC Diamond in UK. Is there much of a difference?

[Gofspar]

 

Arctic MX-2/4 or IC Diamond are the best.

 

nope, 

 

NT-H1 or GELID GC Extreme, and if you are risky CLU

[Tazman192]

nope, 

 

NT-H1 or GELID GC Extreme, and if you are risky CLU

 

I was looking at the GELID GC extreme. Why the hell does it come with a spatula? I thought pea method was the best way rather than spreading.

[REX.exe]

MX4, NT-H1, IC Diamond and GELID GC Extreme are really awesome.

 

Is there much of a difference? No.

 

 

They are all good. MX4 is the best for how much it costs.

[Johannes_Lazor]

Personally i use some "industrial grade" Amasan T12, The temps are often only about 1-5% higher when going from a decent thermal paste to the best.
I bought a 35 gram tube for 10 bucks, Im not going to run out of thermal paste anytime soon.


These benchmarks doesnt include IC diamond.

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=71658

[REX.exe]

I was looking at the GELID GC extreme. Why the hell does it come with a spatula? I thought pea method was the best way rather than spreading.

Lots of thermal paste comes with a *spreader. Deepcool Z5 does aswell. I'm pretty sure people used to spread it until they found pea method.

[Guest MinimalEffort]

MX-4

[Tazman192]

Is Gelid GC-Extreme just as easy to apply as say AS5?

 

Slightly off-topic:

 

When I switch CPU's, is my bios automatically set to default, or should I do this before taking the old one out? I take it overclocking the 4670k and 4690k is similar.

[Samfisher]

Prolimatech PK-3

[TheMcSame]

The best I've seen is Coollab's Liquid Ultra, it's kinda overkill really, I wouldn't jump on it unless you were doing a custom loop.

 

The MX-4 is what I've gone with and it gets my vote.

[soup]

Personal opinion :-

 

Basically I would go with any 'name brand', there are fan boys who will say X is definetly the best while others will say Y is the best., as long as you don't go for the really cheap bulk no-name stuff any will do just fine. I would imagine there is very little difference between them .

[Tazman192]

Personal opinion :-

 

Basically I would go with any 'name brand', there are fan boys who will say X is definetly the best while others will say Y is the best., as long as you don't go for the really cheap bulk no-name stuff any will do just fine. I would imagine there is very little difference between them .

 

 

Yup, ordered the mx-4. Was cheapest out of all the suggested ones. For £4 you can't go wrong with a thermal paste that gets good recognition

 

Cheers for the reply folks.

[Gofspar]

Yup, ordered the mx-4. Was cheapest out of all the suggested ones. For £4 you can't go wrong with a thermal paste that gets good recognition

 

Cheers for the reply folks.

GC Extreme is 3c cooler.