Thermal paste for GPU advice please

tres_kun · 16 Feb 2015 at 10:36

Hello everybody
I have to do an order of overclockers today
And wanted to replace the thermal paste on my GTX 780

I am searching for an alternative thermal paste
IC Diamond is not in stock

I have arctic silver 5 but it is capacitive
Can somebody advice me on a good GPU thermal paste of overclockers?
Do not trust ebay on something like this

Mark This Day · 16 Feb 2015 at 10:55

Arctic Cooling MX-4* is good stuff

There is nothing wrong with as5 to be honest

tres_kun · 16 Feb 2015 at 11:02

afraid of the claim of capacitance
It has a small chance for me to mess up

And willing to satisfy the itch by getting the best and safe

Drangueos · 16 Feb 2015 at 14:23

I use MX4 on my cpus and gpus.

Mark This Day · 16 Feb 2015 at 15:46

As long as you don't go mad putting it on it will be fine

Telecaster · 16 Feb 2015 at 16:47

I used IC Diamond on my GPU but it didn't result in degree of improvement, must have been well applied stock TIM.

tres_kun · 17 Feb 2015 at 23:27

got on it and replaced the thermal paste with arctic silver 5
The thermal paste i found in the card was starting to dry up
So was expecting a better results

From 73 degrees 70% RPM got to 69 degrees and 65% RPM
So i used the overhead and got it 75 degrees 60% RPM

Not bad overall the card is a blower so i am happy with lower fan noise

Xyger · 19 Feb 2015 at 12:28

I've gone for some GC Gelid Extreme 3-3.5 or something like that. Hopefully going to use it tonight if I remember to bring some isopropyl wipes home from work!

Xyger · 24 Feb 2015 at 16:59

Ooops didn't see GPU. So dumb

sorry