Has anyone tried AMeCh SGT-4 thermal paste?

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Recently heard about AMeCh SGT-4 thermal paste and the reviews I found seemed to suggest it was quite good, but it is hard to find many reviews of it (currently at least).

I was just wondering if anyone here had tried it or done any testing with it and if so what did you think of it?

 

[Rroff]

Never used it but none of the tests show it doing anything meaningfully better than stuff like MX-6, sure slightly beats them but it is like 0.25C kind of stuff.

I've seen a lot of pastes like this hyped up in small corners of the internet but whenever I get my hands on them they don't turn out to be anything special - often they don't even do that well when the person testing them actually knows how to apply different pastes properly.

 

[pastymuncher]

I was looking at this stuff last week and any results about it are confusing. Some say it's better than any of Thermal Grizzly's offerings and other's say it's not as good as them. I was looking for something to help cool my gpu and ended up ordering a load of Thermalright and Gelid thermal pads, UTP-8 thermal putty, PTM7950 sheet and a Thermalright Heilos V2 sheet from China. If I have to fall back on thermal paste for the core I have two different thermal Grizzly's and a couple of tubes of Thermalright TF-7.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Interested to know what you try and how well it works.
I'm tempted to get some AMeCh SGT-4 just because it's cheap and there's a chance it could be decent.

 

[Rroff]

I was looking at this stuff last week and any results about it are confusing. Some say it's better than any of Thermal Grizzly's offerings and other's say it's not as good as them. I was looking for something to help cool my gpu and ended up ordering a load of Thermalright and Gelid thermal pads, UTP-8 thermal putty, PTM7950 sheet and a Thermalright Heilos V2 sheet from China. If I have to fall back on thermal paste for the core I have two different thermal Grizzly's and a couple of tubes of Thermalright TF-7.

Usually this is because people persist in using one application method which they've always used to test all the pastes rather than read the application notes and use the best method for each... not that it makes huge difference but it can still make enough of a difference.

For example some of the TG pastes work best when manually spread, properly, whereas quite a lot of other pastes don't work their best that way, and the TG pastes like being spread properly not the half-arsed approach with a bit of cling film certain people persist with...

There is also another factor in that some pastes will struggle with say a 14900K but put up excellent results with cooler running CPUs - potentially even beating pastes which on the other hand do better with the hotter running CPUs - I'm not entirely sure as to the why - MX-6 for example is quite pedestrian when testing with say a 7800X3D but will go quite a bit up the pack when dealing with the hotter running 14th gen CPUs.

EDIT: Personally I like tried and tested pastes - seen far too many hyped up new pastes which maybe do 1-2C better initially but need redoing like yearly or something.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I would like to try the TG pastes, but that stuff's like £70 per gram and I'm just not sure it's worth the extra cost.

I'm always worried about spreading paste as we were once told that has the possibility to trap air bubbles. Does that not matter now or is there something about the new pastes that prevent that from happening?

I'd stick with tried and tested but that seems to change every couple of weeks it seems. I remember the days when Arctic Silver was top dog and then a bit later it was IC Diamond. I take it despite being tried and tested they're not really the way to go these days? I've been using MX-4 for a little while now but feel maybe I should get something a bit better. It' just trying to figure out what that is while keeping the price under that of a 5090.

I wish there was a reputable way of getting genuine PTM7950 that wasn't also silly prices.

 

[Rroff]

I'm always worried about spreading paste as we were once told that has the possibility to trap air bubbles. Does that not matter now or is there something about the new pastes that prevent that from happening?

Depends paste to paste, the application instructions will usually be a good guide to best method. A lot of pastes aren't ideal when hand spread though.

I've been using MX-4 for a little while now but feel maybe I should get something a bit better.

MX-4 is fine for most CPUs/purposes, if you have some of the top end ones which produce a lot of heat like the 14900K then there can be benefits from stuff like MX-6. I'd only bother with the likes of TG if doing heavy overclocking.

 

[Ice Tea]

I'd only bother with the likes of TG if doing heavy overclocking.

Exactly this.

It amazes me how many people I've seen on forums spending a shed load of time and money just to see a low temperature on a PC that they only use for general tasks.

 

[pastymuncher]

A cool pc is a quiet pc.

 

[Ice Tea]

If a fan ramps up to 100% over a couple of degrees difference then there is something wrong in my opinion, there is no need to spend a extra £100 on cooling for general tasks.