Arctic Cooling MX-3.

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I have Arctic Cooling MX-2 and was wondering if this stuff is better and worth a buy? my cpu died on me and has been sent back for replacement. Just wondering if this stuff would help my temps with a core i7 920 with a AC 7 Pro REV 2.
 
People use to pick the MX-2 over the AS5. I guess people just buy the AS5 because of the reputation it has built up over the years and they tend to just go by what others say despite them not trying anything else.
 
Yeah I just used up an ancient tube of MX-1 and it seemed to give better results for me than AS5! I like the fact that it is not electrically conductive and so you don't have to worry as much about it getting onto tiny capacitors etc when applying it to a GPU.
 
I personally have just bought a huge tube of MX-2 after using MX-3.

Hate the mx-3 personally, found it to thick and difficult to spread, it stuck to everything else other than the CPU

mx-2 is so much more useable
 
I used AS5 for years and recently decided to buy some MX-2 and it's great :) Went for MX-2 as it's cheaper than MX-3. Far better value than AS5 and there's no curing time needed which is the winner for me.
 
wingnuttzz said:
I personally have just bought a huge tube of MX-2 after using MX-3.

Hate the mx-3 personally, found it to thick and difficult to spread, it stuck to everything else other than the CPU

mx-2 is so much more useable
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What method did you use for spreading? Normally, when I use a grain and allow the heatsink to do the rest, I get a pretty even spread.
 
Helios1234 said:
What method did you use for spreading? Normally, when I use a grain and allow the heatsink to do the rest, I get a pretty even spread.
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I personally like spreading it out with a card (such as my clock-in card for work or my bank card), that way i know it is spread out evenly over the whole core.

And espically when replacing the thermal paste on my motherboard and graphics card, i would rather spread it out with a card rather than allowing the heatsink to the work.
 
EK says you should spread it from corner to corner and then make a crosshair shape from edge to edge, as for spreading I use the sandwich bag wrapped around your finger trick.

I used NTH-1 on my 5850, it was free with my CPU cooler and works about as well as MX2. :D
 
I've used all 3.
AS5
MX-2
And now using MX-3

MX-2 already was few degrees better than AS5 and MX-3 is even better, great stuff, if you don't have one yet, buy it - it's cheap and worth every penny, will last for quite a few applies as well easily.
 
Im not sure what stuff came with my Asus CPU cooler, it looks like MX3 but it was thicker and dryer.

With Asus paste:



With MX3:



Makes a 2-3 degrees difference.
 
A 3.5gram tube of AS5 has lasted my about 7 years! Im sure i used it on my Opteron 146, maybe even used it on my processor before that
 
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