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Quick question, what thermal compound do you guys recommend for me to use with my Corsair H100i?

 

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It honestly doesn't matter too much, I use MX-4 and it works fine.

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Quick question, what thermal compound do you guys recommend for me to use with my Corsair H100i?

 

Thanks.

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Quick question, what thermal compound do you guys recommend for me to use with my Corsair H100i?

 

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The Prolimatech PK-3 is among the top.

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Quick question, what thermal compound do you guys recommend for me to use with my Corsair H100i?

 

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It honestly doesn't matter too much, I use MX-4 and it works fine.

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Quick question, what thermal compound do you guys recommend for me to use with my Corsair H100i?

 

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Any named one (i.e. Not some cheap 'no-name' crap from China) they are all much of a muchness.

Indeed there are several 'tests' where toothpaste is one of the runners if it wasn't for the fact that it dries out to quickly it would be a good substitute

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It honestly doesn't matter too much, I use MX-4 and it works fine.

Yeah I might just get the MX-4 due to the price. 

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Yeah I might just get the MX-4 due to the price. 

MX-4 is great, was able to lower the fan speed on my gtx 670 after i replaced the the thermal compound that had been starting to get dry.

 

Btw did you know tomato ketchup works pretty well for thermal compound? not even kidding

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Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is easily the best these days. There isn't much difference between decent paste and good paste, but if you want the best, Kryonaut is just that.

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