Good thermal paste?

[as96]

My macbook is running really hot lately even though I've cleaned it and since it's pretty old it's probably the thermal paste, what's the best one at the moment? 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Best is pretty excessive.

 

Noctua, artic silver 5 are both good ones that won't break the bank.

[RollinLower]

i use Arctic MX2, and it has never let me down!

[as96]

I forgot, since it's a laptop I'd like a dense thermal paste, although it's not a big deal.

[Tsuki]

thermal grizzly kryonaut is the best at the moment unless you want to move into liquid metals(which i dont suggest)

[Deli]

The difference is really small among good thermal pastes, like within a degree *C or so.

 

Just tried T-Grizzly Kryonaut today. I see no noticeable difference in temp compares to Gelid GC Extrreme. Tried both "pea" and "spread" methods. Exactly the same temp of six cores average both times running AIDA64 for 30 mins. 0.25*C better than Gelid GC Extreme, that falls in to margin of error. Room temp during the whole test is from 20.2*C to 20.4*C. 

 

But T-Grizzly Kryonaut is two time as expensive as Gelid GC Extreme. Maybe if you do LN2, the difference will be bigger.

 

Just get whatever is available. MX-4, GC Extreme, Noctua NT-H1...they are all good.