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Gold has a lower thermal conductivity as both Copper and Silver.

 

It's snake-oil.

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Is it worth buying golden thermal paste? And can you trust to buy golden thermal paste on ebay?

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2 minutes ago, Adam Falt said:

Is it worth buying golden thermal paste? And can you trust to buy golden thermal paste on ebay?

Just go with something that is fairly common and performs decently.  My 2 favourites are IC Diamond and Arctic Silver.

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3 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

Just go with something that is fairly common and performs decently.  My 2 favourites are IC Diamond and Arctic Silver.

Yeah im using artic silver 5 atm but im just curios to find out the diference, i dont want to get some superglue with golden glitter in it from som sketchy hong kong seller xD

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Gold has a lower thermal conductivity as both Copper and Silver.

 

It's snake-oil.

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Just now, Majestic said:

Gold has a lower thermal conductivity as both Copper and Silver.

 

It's snake-oil.

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gold is worse not better

if you want better thermal paste buy some MX-4

 

or go all out and get some liquid ultra

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13 minutes ago, Adam Falt said:

Is it worth buying golden thermal paste? And can you trust to buy golden thermal paste on ebay?

MX-4 is as good as gold.

 

Better, actually.

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4 hours ago, aisle9 said:

MX-4 is as good as gold.

 

Better, actually.

MX-4 is 5-6 w/mk, gold (pure) is 300 w/mk. It's not bad, it's just that copper and silver (380) are better.

And you always need some way of applying it, hence it's never pure.

 

Liquid Ultra is 35 w/mk. It's really much better than it's competition, it's just a total ass to apply and clean off afterwards.

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Avoid AS5, despite it being stupidly popular its not good. Also its not pure gold since that would be impossible to apply and wouldn't work as thermal paste and it wouldn't be the best. If you want the best thermal paste I would go with Coolabortory Liquid Pro.

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