Recomended thermal paste for Haswell?

sastusbulbas · 12 Aug 2013 at 22:11

Having had a look at the overclocking thread, I noticed a few variations on thermal pastes being preferred. Is there now a recognized top performing thermal paste recommended for Haswell?

I seem to see Coollaboratory mentioned a lot?

setter · 12 Aug 2013 at 22:21

After having used the coollaboratory stuff on my previous 3570k and the cpu in sig, id be hard pressed to go back to using any conventional paste. I only used it on top of the heatspreader, but it's a good 5c better than anything else ive tried, examples being as5 and mx4.

Swizz · 13 Aug 2013 at 13:35

I have Arctic Cooling MX-4 on my chip. It has served me well and I would recommend it to everybody. The best that I have used.

sastusbulbas · 16 Aug 2013 at 11:27

I have bought some CoolLaboratory Ultra.

Seems to be getting better results than Mx-2 or MX-4 in the Haswell OC thread.

martos123 · 16 Aug 2013 at 11:29

Running Arctic Silver 5 with no issues on mine

Dicehunter · 16 Aug 2013 at 11:38

I switched to IC-Diamond 24 Carat from AS5 when I got my 4770K and the temps are awesome.
At the moment it's 29'c idle and with AVX enabled and heavy workload in OCCT it goes up to 89'c but in games and apps it never goes over 57'c

andicole0 · 16 Aug 2013 at 11:39

I've used Zalman Thermal grease (ZM-STG1) for ages with no issues. I see there's a ZM-STG2 now available from OCUK.

Andi.