Thermal paste

clone · 17 Jul 2020 at 21:21

What's the go to thermal paste these days it's for a 10700k I use mx4 but fancy a change.
Thanks.

Rroff · 17 Jul 2020 at 21:27

The Thermal Grizzly stuff seems to be go to now but I'm still using AS5 and MX4 personally - still hold up well with proper application and long term results proven.

clone · 17 Jul 2020 at 21:30

I'll have a look at that thanks.

jsbombjack · 18 Jul 2020 at 00:56

I used noctua paste for my cpu and gpu and the temps were are good 10c lower than on stock in both cases

koolpc · 18 Jul 2020 at 01:02

Sensodine

Justintime · 18 Jul 2020 at 03:30

I've got 2 30g MX-2 syringes i've been using now for a few years, still does the job within a few C of the best stuff.

clone · 18 Jul 2020 at 09:02

I've gone with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut in the end very good reviews on it,thanks for the help.

Minstadave · 18 Jul 2020 at 09:04

jsbombjack said:
I used noctua paste for my cpu and gpu and the temps were are good 10c lower than on stock in both cases

10 degree drop changing from stock to noctua? Seems unbelievable.

jsbombjack · 18 Jul 2020 at 09:50

The factory gpu paste was dreadful when I looked at it

Glanza · 18 Jul 2020 at 11:33

Thermal Grizzly been my go to for CPU and GPU last few years.

doyll · 19 Jul 2020 at 15:37

Never liked ThermalGrizzly. Have been using Thermalright for like 10 years (several different versions as new ones came along) and never had a problem with any of them. I did some A/B comparsions between origina and newer ones and difference was minor.

Having a good mount with good TIM print is way more important than what TIM is used. There is less than 3c differnce between very best and about 30th in list of 50 or more TIMS. Best TIMs are liquid metal making up 1.8c of the list (very hard to use and problematic as well). That leaves 30 normal TIMs with only 1.3c difference between very best and 30th on list.

Long story short, get a good name brand TIM and be careful to get a good print/seat and you will be fine.

ukbilleh · 24 Jul 2020 at 14:29

Been using artic silver 5 here as it’s so easy to spread even/thin and get good results but switched over to a 9900k, tried thermal grizzly Kryonaut and Got much better results. Awful to spread even when hot but dropped around 5c which marries up with the results of various reviews.

clone · 24 Jul 2020 at 14:49

I'll be using the pea method as it's been flawless for me over the last few years.