Paste Advice

[Xand]

Hey,

silly question time, I've had 2/3 machines die from overheating in the past, and always felt guilty that it was to do with my thermal paste application, so I just ordered some new parts from OC and went with a bundle and mentioned this so they could pre-paste for me and throw on an OC, seems that wasn't done and now I'm dying to get it setup, so my only options are whats available on prime 2 hour delivery.

I've got the options of,

ARCTIC MX-4
ARCTIC MX-2
Arctic Silver 5

would any of those be sufficient for a OC 8700k or do I wait and get some tommorrow?

 

[Doobedoo]

This stuff is pretty good. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...formance-thermal-paste-1-gramm-th-020-tg.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...formance-thermal-paste-1-gramm-th-020-tg.html
To be honest most paste's will do the job. I use the pea method and never had an issue.

 

[darket]

people are far too precious about thermal paste and its application , get the mx-4 , its very good (within a few degrees of every other premium paste out there) it spreads very easily and lasts well.

Just spread it over the entire heat spreader with a credit card, stick the heatsink on and forget about it.

 

[Rroff]

You'd have to do a really poor job to kill components through overheating purely down to the application and paste used.

Personally I either use Arctic Silver 5 (personally I get great results with it) or Thermal Grizzly.

Just spread it over the entire heat spreader with a credit card, stick the heatsink on and forget about it.

Gamer's nexus showed some pastes can see degraded performance significantly by hand spreading - either use a blob or read the application notes. There are also a small number of pastes like some Gelid stuff that don't work great unless you hand spread as well.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

A blob of AS5. Never had an issue with it, and performance is great.

 

[8 Pack]

Thermal Grizzly hydronaut in this price range or kryonaut if money no object.

 

[Panos]

Hey,

silly question time, I've had 2/3 machines die from overheating in the past, and always felt guilty that it was to do with my thermal paste application, so I just ordered some new parts from OC and went with a bundle and mentioned this so they could pre-paste for me and throw on an OC, seems that wasn't done and now I'm dying to get it setup, so my only options are whats available on prime 2 hour delivery.

I've got the options of,

ARCTIC MX-4
ARCTIC MX-2
Arctic Silver 5

would any of those be sufficient for a OC 8700k or do I wait and get some tommorrow?

Kryonaut is the best atm.
Get the 5.5g tube, is better value than the 1g tube.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...ance-thermal-paste-5.5g-1.5-ml-th-001-tg.html

 

[Danny75]

I'd avoid MX-2. Too many bad tubes around. Landed one that required re-pasting every 6 months. Too liquidy, kept drying.

Be patient and get some Kryonaut from OcUK. Not that there's anything wrong with MX-4 or Arctic Silver 5, I use the latter at times.

 

[Orcvader]

I'd avoid MX-2. Too many bad tubes around. Landed one that required re-pasting every 6 months. Too liquidy, kept drying.

Be patient and get some Kryonaut from OcUK. Not that there's anything wrong with MX-4 or Arctic Silver 5, I use the latter at times.

I still have a tube of MX-2 from about 5 years back and it still does the job perfectly. No drying issues and my 2600K + H50 as well as my old 7950 with a G10 AIO cooler kept the temps low, never had to repaste.

But +1 to being more patient and getting the Kryonaut, I'm using that now and it does a good job. I ignored the suggested method though and stuck with the small pea method which I feel works better.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Always used the pea method, never had issues

My last build (custom water loop, 3930k etc) was running on IC diamond 24.

 

[Danny75]

I still have a tube of MX-2 from about 5 years back and it still does the job perfectly. No drying issues and my 2600K + H50 as well as my old 7950 with a G10 AIO cooler kept the temps low, never had to repaste.

Glad you got a good one (sincerely not sarcy). I got that bad tube in May 2015. Read about others who got bad ones, after that.

 

[Orcvader]

Glad you got a good one (sincerely not sarcy). I got that bad tube in May 2015. Read about others who got bad ones, after that.

Ah in that case they must've changed something later on which could be affecting it, around 2011 odd it was highly rated. I'm actually finding the Kryonaut a little more liquidy compared to it but curing time seems better.

 

[warren_1979]

Still using a 2007 1g tube of Arctic 5 here. Still going strong! Just used it on Ryzen.