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Recommendations on Replacing Thermal Paste

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This is my first time replacing the thermal paste on my GPU and I was wondering which thermal paste I should buy.I have narrowed it down to 5 different thermal pastes: (In no particular order)

  1. Arctic Silver Ceramique 2
  2. ARCTIC MX-4
  3. Arctic Silver 5
  4. Noctua NT-H1
  5. Innovation Cooling Diamond

But I'm open for other recommendations

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AS5 is good but it can cause some problems if you do not apply it correctly. I would get AS5 or Arctic MX-4. AS5 improved my CPU temps 5C over the stock cooler thermal paste

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5 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

AS5 is good but it can cause some problems if you do not apply it correctly. I would get AS5 or Arctic MX-4. AS5 improved my CPU temps 5C over the stock cooler thermal paste

What issues could happen? Currently using AS5 so I'm curious.

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2 minutes ago, Schubaltz said:

What issues could happen? Currently using AS5 so I'm curious.

It isn't conductive but I remember it can kill your mobo if you use too much and it gets into the socket. It is fine though as long as you aren't extreme with the paste amount

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2 minutes ago, Schubaltz said:

What issues could happen? Currently using AS5 so I'm curious.

I'm assuming that it could cause a possible short circuit if it got on the side connections as the GPU die and side connections are exposed

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1 minute ago, BrokenProgram01 said:

I'm assuming that it could cause a possible short circuit if it got on the side connections as the GPU die and side connections are exposed

nvm

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6 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

AS5 is good but it can cause some problems if you do not apply it correctly. I would get AS5 or Arctic MX-4. AS5 improved my CPU temps 5C over the stock cooler thermal paste

 

Is there a large difference between the MX4 and the AS5

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I really like my MX-4, but I know NT-H1 is good too. AS5 is kinda old.

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