Is this the Best current thermal compound

i went through a phaze of trying different pastes and imo there is little noticable difference between them, having said that the best i tried was the coolab liquid metal, unfortunatly cleaning it off was so hard i actually ended up pollishing off the writing on the front of the cpu and some of the coating off my true black which made seling them a bit of a pain. so for me tim needs to be relativly easy to use which that stuff dosnt appear to be.

If you really want to try somthing else
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-002-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27
is pretty good.
 
I haven't noticed much of a difference after doing a couple of reseats recently with some decent branded tims. Currently using MX3 now.
 
How come Prime95 isn't fully loading that guys chip in the video??

Anyone else notice that?

Also, that TX3 looks like it has the exact same consitency as MX3..
 
tankskun said:
Would it perform a lot better than my Noctua NT-H1 Paste:confused:
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No.

It might perform very slightly better.

If very slightly better is what you want then go for it but it's never going to make the difference that more powerful fans, larger coolers or even leaving air for water will.
 
Basicly any TIM that dos'nt need curing time will be about the same as any other.. few degree's here or there, they are all roughly the same, unless u go for the extreme stuff, and that stuff can be a nightmare to use.
 
That's what I thought Amidar, because in that video above it looks exactly the same as MX-3 does, and tjharlow even mentions how annoying it is to work with, when I first started using MX-3 I thought the tube I got was off (can TIM even go off!?) because it was so thick and just wouldn't stick to the IHS at all.

After a lot of persuasion I managed to cover the IHS with a nice even layer, now that I've used it several times I now know exactly how to apply it without to much hassle, but it's far more difficult to work with than AS5.

I did a build for a friend a few weeks ago, and he bought the Zalman CNPS10X Extreme, and Zalman have changed their thermal grease to stuff that is quite similar to MX-3 as well, the old thermal grease used to be quite thin and came with a small brush for applying it, that was the easiest TIM I've ever used tbh, and it was quite good as well from what I remember.
 
DavyBoy said:
That's what I thought Amidar, because in that video above it looks exactly the same as MX-3 does, and tjharlow even mentions how annoying it is to work with, when I first started using MX-3 I thought the tube I got was off (can TIM even go off!?) because it was so thick and just wouldn't stick to the IHS at all.

After a lot of persuasion I managed to cover the IHS with a nice even layer, now that I've used it several times I now know exactly how to apply it without to much hassle, but it's far more difficult to work with than AS5.

I did a build for a friend a few weeks ago, and he bought the Zalman CNPS10X Extreme, and Zalman have changed their thermal grease to stuff that is quite similar to MX-3 as well, the old thermal grease used to be quite thin and came with a small brush for applying it, that was the easiest TIM I've ever used tbh, and it was quite good as well from what I remember.
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I've used AS3, AS5, MX-2 and MX-3.

The MX's are MUCH easier to work with than AS, mine has never been too thick to stick.
 
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What a pile of crap, not only is he only running 1 thread for his "torture" test, but he's pulling temps out of his ass for the AS5 one. He expects us to believe that his CPU suddenly gained 20C in peak temps.

He's clearly fully loaded it inbetween times to create a false differential. What a fraud.
 
Hotwired said:
No.

It might perform very slightly better.

If very slightly better is what you want then go for it but it's never going to make the difference that more powerful fans, larger coolers or even leaving air for water will.
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OK thanks. I got a good aircooling setup with the Megahalems & Apaches, but scared of building WC.

Might give MX3 a go soon. Have a strange urge to try a new paste out.
 
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