Best thermal paste

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 13:45

What’s the best thermal paste for a gaming laptop without using Liquid Metal.
I don’t mind using LM but not on a laptop one drop and it’s all over the place

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 15:06

I was going to splash out on the Honeywell stuff that everybody says is a good as LM.

I got some MX-4 so I’ll just use that if there is no real difference

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 15:09

Quartz said:
Club386 just did a test.

I take that pack it’s looks like the ptm sheet is about 7c better than MX4.

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 15:19

hornetstinger said:
Just use a slightly bigger rpm to make up the difference.

CPU hits 90c and fans run at 100% in games (45w mode)

CPU is a 10870h and I know paste the as never been replaced, it’s definitely time. If I’m doing it I may as well do it right.
It only cost’s £10 on offer

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 18:18

Also if it runs cooler are a said fan speed it will give me a little head room.. I order some

WARburton · 19 Jan 2026 at 18:39

tamzzy said:
was gonna pop in here and mention ptm7950 but it seems this was redundant

I’d seen this before posting and been told on direct die So laptops and gpus it was good but wasn’t 100%

WARburton · 21 Jan 2026 at 19:46

i put LM on everything but im just not in a rush to put in om my laptop. i only really us it when i travel so it will get bumped about a bit in bags.
ive found a seller that looks to sell genuine Honeywell PTM7950 so im going to give it a go

WARburton · 26 Jan 2026 at 15:30

i repasted my laptop on the 20th because it was getting a bit loud, i used MX4 just to tide me over until the PTM7950 i ordered turned up.
stripped it today to find the CPU had pumped out the die was almost dry in only 5 days so depending on the laptop use i wouldn't use MX4 again.

lets see how the PTM7950 gets on, temps look good to start with and GPU temp drops a lot faster when closing games then it did before.