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Not see it go over 40C, this stuff stuff would seem to be rather decent when combined with an after market cooler and a decent case
MX4 Thermal Paste
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Not see it go over 40C, this stuff stuff would seem to be rather decent when combined with an after market cooler and a decent case
MX3 v CF3 v MX4 result for i7 920 4.3ghz at 1.29vcore with 1 fan of viper at full max speed:
mx3 idle are 42, 43, 42, 41 and under load 76, 77, 76, 75
cf3 idle are 41, 42, 43, 42 and under load 74, 75, 75, 74
mx4 idle are: 39, 37, 37, 36 and under load 74, 72, 73, 72
mx4 spread out is more easy than mx3 and it better than mx3. Thanks Rich
5c better? Unless you had a seriously poor mount with the mx3 I find those results very hard to believe. The better spread of the mx4 might account for it I guess but paste vs paste and everything else being equal I doubt a 5c difference is the norm, no offence.
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I disagree with you, it got nothing to do with my poor mount with the mx3 or cf3.
It now 8C lower since oct 20th (5 days old mx4)
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Hmmm, that seems like a massive difference and I personally found the MX-4 to be worse. Did you take into account ambient temperatures?
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yes i did, 24c in ambient. maybe you can try again by order a new one.
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.I disagree with you, it got nothing to do with my poor mount with the mx3 or cf3.
It now 8C lower since oct 20th (5 days old mx4)
I'm not saying your results are fake, just your methods of reproducing them. An 8c drop (!) due to thermal paste alone is unheard of unless like I said, something was wrong with the mounts on the other pastes or the ambient was different.
Most reviews I have read agree with you that it's better but not by 8c! More likely 1-2c which is much more agreeable.
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I personally, whilst adding a second fan to my heatsink, dropped about 10'c off load temp at 3.6Ghz. At 3.2Ghz I dropped from 68'c load to 59'c load. Yes a new fan was involved but combined you can see the difference. MX4 does make a difference.
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I want to buy this paste but it seems to be currently out of stock
on ocuk.
on ocuk.I only added one single fan, I may even do a test with one fan to show you how much it actually dropped. Theres no way I dropped 10'c by adding a fan either. I did say it was a combined effort, but still a very good effort. MX4 outright for me beat AS5. I have no idea what the difference would have been against MX3 though.
I got mine a couple of weeks ago and compared to MX-3 it has dropped my load temps by 80C!*
*Of course I moved from air cooling to LN2 at the same time but the combined effect is still impressive
Heh, that made me chuckle.
End of the day, MX4 has improved my temps by a good FEW degrees. The only way any of us could know how much by would be to use a special room kept at a certain temp and then tested with all 4/5 pastes, applied the same on the same setup. Unless anyone has that...