Thermal Paste Best Before?

Dancer · 4 Mar 2010 at 20:40

I got arctic silver left in the "syringe" from when I fitted a my scythe ninja plus rev B about two years ago. Is it still good or does it go bad and I'm better of using what comes with the stock cooler?

Edit: Same question for ArctiClean thermal material remover...
Edit2: The thermal paste is Arctic Silver 3 if it matters.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:05

I recently build my pc using a 5-6 year old tube of AS-5, and it's working exactly how I'd expect AS-5 to work.

As long as it hasn't dried up in the tube, it'll work fine.

SupermotoMX · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:11

if theres no date on it it will last 15 years or more, anything that has a product life of less than 15 years has to have a use by date, (correct me if im wrong)

Dancer · 5 Mar 2010 at 08:02

Thanks, I'll go ahead and use my AS3 then. I plan to re-use my scythe ninja cooler as I understand that the AM2 holes fit for AM3.