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What is your go to Thermal Paste?

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What Thermal Paste do you use as your daily?  

30 members have voted

  1. 1. Choose which one, multiple choice is allowed (GPU's differ to CPU's)

    • Arctic Cooling MX-2
      1
    • Arctic Cooling MX-4
      6
    • Arctic Silver 5
      14
    • Arcic Silver Ceramique 2
      0
    • Gelid Solutions GC-2
      0
    • Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme
      5
    • Cooler Master HTK-002
      1
    • Noctua NT-H1
      3
    • Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
      2
    • Prolimatech PK-2
      0
    • EVGA Frostbite
      0
    • Innovation Cooling Diamond 7
      2
    • Coollaboratory LiquidCopper
      0
    • Coollaboratory LiquidPro
      2
    • Coollaboratory LiquidUltra
      0
    • Dimastech HTX-EE
      0
    • EK Water Blocks EK-TIM
      0
    • Phobya LM
      0
    • Phobya NanoGrease Extreme
      0
    • Xilence X5
      0

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Just a general poll for the users of LTT, let's see what users mostly go for :)

 

I myself love me some AC MX-4 for both my CPU's and GPU's.

I use MX-2 for my games consoles thanks to it's fast cure time and it lasts a long time.

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1 minute ago, LokiFire said:

Just a general poll for the users of LTT, let's see what users mostly go for :)

 

I myself love me some AC MX-4 for both my CPU's and GPU's.

I use MX-2 for my games consoles thanks to it's fast cure time and it lasts a long time.

The Arctic Silver 5 a guy gave to me free when I bought a motherboard from him.

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Prolimatech PK-2 or PK-3.  A little bit more expensive than the standard stuff but performs really well.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Prolimatech-Pk-2-Aluminum-Thermal-Compound/dp/B008M514CS

http://www.amazon.com/Prolimatech-Pk-3-Aluminum-Thermal-Compound/dp/B008M5157W

 

Reviews :

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,3616-17.html

 

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Just now, CUDA_Cores said:

Arctic silver 5 is my go to. But I do like to use this thermal paste on my clients PCs:

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003AVMRQG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

It doesn't perform as well as arctic silver 5 but on the other hand it costs so much less. And there is only like a 3C difference from both pastes.

Nice to see a rather unusual paste, never seen it before :)

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13 minutes ago, LokiFire said:

 

mineral oil + toothpaste mix <--- still cant forget that one guy that mentioned he's using this for his system

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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4 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

mineral oil + toothpaste mix <--- still cant forget that one guy that mentioned he's using this for his system

LMAO

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Honestly most pastes now are mostly pretty close in performance but I'm an MX-4 guy myself.  Although I hear that IC Diamond is pretty good too(thanks Linus).  Haha

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Whatever I have from CPU coolers that I have collected. Which is a sizable stack of cooler master and noctua. I just grab the cooler master and use it all up.

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Arctic Silver 5 is what my dad uses, so it's what I used for my build as well.

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IC Diamond on all current builds.

 

But that tube is now empty.  So may try Prolimatech next.

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On 3/19/2016 at 7:06 PM, derrickd241 said:

Honestly most pastes now are mostly pretty close in performance but I'm an MX-4 guy myself.  Although I hear that IC Diamond is pretty good too(thanks Linus).  Haha

IC Diamond is great...until you replace your cooler and find that attempting to remove the paste has scratched the surface of your CPU up like Deadpool's face and your warranty is now void. Way to go, $7 tube of crap that's only 1C better than MX-4 anyway.

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On 3/20/2016 at 8:37 PM, aisle9 said:

IC Diamond is great...until you replace your cooler and find that attempting to remove the paste has scratched the surface of your CPU up like Deadpool's face and your warranty is now void. Way to go, $7 tube of crap that's only 1C better than MX-4 anyway.

I've used IC Diamond on multiple builds, and have changed or reset coolers using it.  I find that a little hard to believe.  The maximum particle size is 40 microns - any marks would be microscopic.  

 

Sure, it can lighten or remove the product markings, but only if you are super aggressive rubbing the stuff off.

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I use Gelid GC-Extreme for my personal rigs and Arctic MX-something on other peoples builds.

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