Absolute Best Thermal Paste???

[JohnYarowy]

I want to know what the absolute best consumer thermal paste you can buy.  Like is it coollabratory liquid metal or is there something better?

[aisle9]

Liquid metal is only useful if you're delidding. If you're not, anything from a reputable manufacturer (Arctic, Noctua, Cryorig, Gelid, etc.) is as good as anything else. There's a delta of about 1-3C between the best and the worst when it comes to thermal paste unless you delid.

[Inception9269]

Hell if I know, I just use arctic silver I believe it's called, Linus always recommending it

[JohnYarowy]

@aisle9 Yeah I was looking into delidding my 6600k, coollaboratory is the best then right?

 

[2FA]

4 minutes ago, JohnYarowy said:

Yeah I was looking into delidding my 6600k, coollaboratory is the best then right?

 

Pretty much, use CLU on the die and then just some regular high quality paste on the IHS.

[JohnYarowy]

@DeadEyePsycho not liquid metal on both? Won't that result in lower temps?

[2FA]

1 minute ago, JohnYarowy said:

not liquid metal on both? Won't that result in lower temps?

Just use the reply button, it's the arrow.

 

CLU is electrically conductive so you don't want it getting into the socket or on the motherboard by accident. There also isn't much benefit to putting it on the IHS as well since the big temp change is from removing the terrible glue that is used to secure the IHS but causes it to be too far away from the die.

[Pickelhaube]

welding your cpu's die to a superconductor would probably be the best thermal transfer possible, if even possible.

[JohnYarowy]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Just use the reply button, it's the arrow.

 

CLU is electrically conductive so you don't want it getting into the socket or on the motherboard by accident. There also isn't much benefit to putting it on the IHS as well since the big temp change is from removing the terrible glue that is used to secure the IHS but causes it to be too far away from the die.

alright.

 

[scottyseng]

19 minutes ago, JohnYarowy said:

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Aside from the Liquid Metal stuff (Mostly for Delid as mentioned above), Grizzly Kyronaut is really good.