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What thermal paste is best for this build?

Phantonex
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For a locked CPU, any thermal paste is fine. Arctic Silver 5 or Noctua NH-T1 are great solutions on the cheap.

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the one that comes with the stock cooler should be good

ASUS X470-PRO • R7 1700 4GHz • Corsair H110i GT P/P • 2x MSI RX 480 8G • Corsair DP 2x8 @3466 • EVGA 750 G2 • Corsair 730T • Crucial MX500 250GB • WD 4TB

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Even the thermal paste included with the hyper 212 should be good enough. There is only a couple of degrees difference between the top thermal pastes which would not really matter considering you have listed a locked cpu.  

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5 minutes ago, Phantonex said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/69csXP

 

What thermal paste should I get for this build? Thanks in advance!

An R5 2600 is a better value CPU, the stock cooler is mostly fine on it as well. Could upgrade to X470 or an R7 chip easily, moterhboard may need a bios update.

Should either get a 1070ti, or better yet live with a 1050ti for now and buy a next generation GPU in a few months with all the money saved

 

you want a 240GB SSD minimum

 

Buy a case with actual airflow

 

 If you plan to do gaming over Wifi you'll want a PCI-e wireless card

You dont need to buy windows you can install it without a key using microsoft's media creation tool.

Should buy this monitor instead.
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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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2 hours ago, Phantonex said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/69csXP

 

What thermal paste should I get for this build? Thanks in advance!

did you buy a used cooler so that you need thermal paste? if so get something like mx4 or nth1 whichever is the cheapest, NT-H1 has slighly better peformance over mx4 and it is supposed to last longer. But if your cooler is new, just the one included, there no need to waste 6 usd on thermal paste at that budget unless you really want to

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The paste that comes with Evo is fine. You won't get noticeable improvements from premium pastes. If you want actual improvements for performance, go for better cooler.

 

16 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Buy a case with actual airflow

Case is fine for airflow. Just needs more fans to achieve it.

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