Thermal grease

[spluff]

I have some halnziye thermal grease which I used about 4 years ago with my 6700k build.

Will it be usable for my 11400 build?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

you planning to scrape it off the 6700k and reuse it?

 

[uscool]

thermal grizzly kryonaut or arctic mx-5 are only few £ just get new paste

 

[spluff]

Lol no I have stuff in the syringe still with cap on and I wrapped it in plastic bag.

 

[Journey]

It'll be fine, just squeeze a small amount out and look to see if there is any separation.

 

[spluff]

Thank you will check that

 

[Cyber-Mav]

Lol no I have stuff in the syringe still with cap on and I wrapped it in plastic bag.

in that case it will be all good. iv got paste in syringe from over 10 years ago and still used today no issues.

 

[Rainmaker]

It'll probably be fine, but for a couple of quid I'd personally just buy new. I tried Kryonaut a couple of years ago but didn't find it anything special. They're much of a muchness. For general builds I'd look for ceramic rather than metallic (so as to have non-conductive paste), and I find that Noctua NT-H1 is cheap and works just as well as the rest. In TomsHardware testing it (just) beat out Kryonaut, and the old fashioned favourite Arctic Silver 5 trailed the pack by 10% (delta T over ambient).

 

[spluff]

i also have an unopened syringe of noctua nt-h1 which i got with my NH-D14.... this is also about 4 years old

Would you use that instead of the halnziye thermal grease? (im sure this must have been recommended when i got my 6700k)

 

[pp111]

i also have an unopened syringe of noctua nt-h1 which i got with my NH-D14.... this is also about 4 years old

Would you use that instead of the halnziye thermal grease? (im sure this must have been recommended when i got my 6700k)

Not sure but I think the Noctua has a shelf life of three years?

 

[random_matt]

Try some TFX.

 

[Simon Belmont]

thermal grizzly kryonaut or arctic mx-5 are only few £ just get new paste

I just bought some Arctic new MX-5 and is very messy to use and temps weren't that great tbh. Kryonaut is much better with temps and mess. Best paste I've ever used.

 

[uscool]

I just bought some Arctic new MX-5 and is very messy to use and temps weren't that great tbh. Kryonaut is much better with temps and mess. Best paste I've ever used.

Thanks I'll stick to Kryonaut

 

[Alexrose1uk]

I really like Kryonaut, the only problem is its not really suitable for laptops/locations where the temperature will be constantly high, as it seems to prematurely age if run above 80 degrees long term.
For this reason, whenever I'm working with laptops or other things that are likely to stay hot long term, I tend to go with MX4; stuff like TFX is also meant to do well in these sorts of conditions.

Horses for courses

 

[spluff]

I have ordered the kryonut to be on the safe side.

I presume it will be okay on a 11gen cpu with a noctua nh-d14?

 

[Alexrose1uk]

As long as it's not living 80+ degrees all the time that is fine, and will likely perform very well. Realistically 80+ constant temps under load are typically more usual for high end laptops, rather than high end gaming desktops which tend to have more substantial heatsinks, fan, and room for airflow.

The NH-D14 is a substantial cooler; and although the 11th gen are hot, I suspect you won't be running under load all the time, so it will likely be fine

 

[spluff]

Ok great thank you

 

[StephenJ]

Used Noctua NT-H2 on my 3800x, like the paste as its easy to apply and gives good temps.