Best Thermal Paste to use for GPU Out Of These??

lettuce · 18 Jun 2013 at 19:41

Am about to install the Gelid Icy Vision cooler to my HD7950, i have MX-2, MX-3, Thermalright CF2 and Arclie Silver 5. Whats supposed to be the best?

panyan · 18 Jun 2013 at 19:42

id go with mx2

*Rich* · 18 Jun 2013 at 20:16

I'd also say use the mx-2.

Tonester0011 · 18 Jun 2013 at 20:20

MX-2 out of that lot.

lettuce · 18 Jun 2013 at 20:49

OK will do, was MX-3 rubbish then?. Whats the recommended thermal paste to use these days anyways?

setter · 18 Jun 2013 at 20:55

For a gpu id also go with mx2, on cpu's the best ive used is liquid pro/ultra. But not reccomended for gpu's.

wazza300 · 18 Jun 2013 at 21:03

Mx4

Liquid pro won't work on gpu's,its too thin and temps run very high,already tried it,currently have mx4 on mine

8 Pack · 18 Jun 2013 at 21:43

I use MX4 on all of my watercooling builds. MX3 and 2 are also decent alternatives.

Sycho · 18 Jun 2013 at 22:20

MX-2 has dropped 10c off 1 of my 680s.

deFiniLoGy · 19 Jun 2013 at 01:08

MX-2 or MX-4 - though personally using MX-4

d_brennen · 19 Jun 2013 at 01:25

Mayonnaise or perhaps toothpaste, as it smells better

I've always used AC Céramique, since the days of the NV 6800. Force of habit more than anything I guess

Helios1234 · 19 Jun 2013 at 08:00

Thermalright CF2 is the best of that lot.

OLDPHART · 19 Jun 2013 at 12:25

MX4 its easier to spread, but MX2 will do.

BRIGGBOY81 · 19 Jun 2013 at 14:43

Gelid extreme on the cards and ice diamond 7 on cpu

Helios1234 · 19 Jun 2013 at 17:04

lettuce said:
OK will do, was MX-3 rubbish then?. Whats the recommended thermal paste to use these days anyways?

MX-3 wasn't rubbish at all. It's better than MX-2 and the newer MX-4. However, Thermalright's CF2/3 are better so I'd go for the CF2 you already have. Gelid's GC-Extreme isn't as good as the MX-3 and the CF2.

OLDPHART · 19 Jun 2013 at 17:57

lettuce said:
OK will do, was MX-3 rubbish then?. Whats the recommended thermal paste to use these days anyways?

Hi again, tried all three MX2/3/4, MX3 very good but did not spread very well hence MX4.

Helios1234 · 19 Jun 2013 at 19:17

OLDPHART said:
Hi again, tried all three MX2/3/4, MX3 very good but did not spread very well hence MX4.

That doesn't really matter though, you can just let the cooler spread the paste and it will do a better job than manually doing it. Plus the OP already has a range of pastes, there's not much point in telling him to buy yet another tube of something that's no better than what he already has

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