What Thermal Paste to Use?

[I am a teapot]

Thinking of disassembling my card (980ti hybrid) and replacing the stock compound. What paste would y'all recommend?

[Matt_98]

3 minutes ago, Bird Fucker said:

Thinking of disassembling my card (980ti hybrid) and replacing the stock compound. What paste would y'all recommend?

arctic silver, maybe liquid metal if your feeling adventerous

[Enderman]

MX-4 works great and is really easy to clean up too.

[SuperCloneRanger]

thermal compound from any reputable manufacturer will do the job there all so close these days it doesn't really matter, just make sure whatever you get it is not electrically conductive, this is especially true for graphics cards. arctic silver is always a good option.

[ravenshrike]

4 hours ago, SuperCloneRanger said:

thermal compound from any reputable manufacturer will do the job there all so close these days it doesn't really matter, just make sure whatever you get it is not electrically conductive, this is especially true for graphics cards. arctic silver is always a good option.

It is however capacitive which in the realm of cpus and gpus can amount to the same thing. In any case, not something you have to generally worry about unless applying to a laptop or delidded chip.

 

 

Go with Conductonaught unless the plate on the GPU heatsink is aluminium. It pretty much eliminates any thermal resistance between the GPU/CPU and the cooling apparatus. Watch youtube videos and test it out on a small piece of plastic before applying to get used to how it spreads.

[Darkseth]

Cheap: Arctic Cooling MX4 (or 2). They have a VERY good Performance per Buck.

 

One of the best , but more expensive: Thermalgrizzly Kryonaut.

Depending on the Cooling solution, how much Heat is transfered etc, this might give you 5-10°C less than "cheap" paste. In EXTREME scenarios.

In Average probably a few single °C less than MX4~

It's slightly more difficult to put up, but works just fine~.

 

The by FAR best: Liquid Metal (Thermalgrizzly Conductaut for example). But you 

1. need to have knowledge how to handle it

2. This might be a mess to clean up (if you ever change it again).

 

I've seen Videos with Liquid Metal on a GPU that got th temps down by 10°C, or some with only 2-3°C.

 

With a Hybrid, i personally would buy Kryonaut 5.5g (enough for multiple applications), for 15 bucks~. And you'll have one of the best paste for any future coolers.