Upgrade advice intel or Amd

As a pevious Intel person for many years, I was rettisent to go down the AMD route. After watching a few YouTube videos and understood more about the architecture and the AM4 socket, I took the plunge. I can say after 12 months with my CPU I am extremely happy and would consider another AMD for a future build.
 
VigiFlyer said:
As a pevious Intel person for many years, I was rettisent to go down the AMD route. After watching a few YouTube videos and understood more about the architecture and the AM4 socket, I took the plunge. I can say after 12 months with my CPU I am extremely happy and would consider another AMD for a future build.
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I was the exact same, back a few years ago I was told to completely about the AMD chips, but now they have made a good comeback. I’ll be building my build soon!
 
The AM4 socket being kept standard to allow you to buy a capable motherboard and then upgrade is a neat idea. As I understand it, the commitment to retain the socket past 5000 series has now lapsed.
 
160mm by 120. Either of those coolers I mentioned before are good, 1 is 120mm height, other 140mm. Your case can support cooler up to 179mm height if you still using Bitfenix prodigy case
 
Couldn't decide so put them in review order on part picker and went for the
SCYTHE SCMG-5100 Mugen 5 Rev.B CPU cooler which has good reviews.

Now to find some a decent thermal paste
 
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I used nt-h2 which had good reviews.. I wanted something that i wouldn't have to reapply every year, which some of grizzly stuff you do... Also artic mx-5 also, but thermals a liitle higher.. But all good stuff really
 
Craig_d1 said:
I used nt-h2 which had good reviews.. I wanted something that i wouldn't have to reapply every year, which some of grizzly stuff you do... Also artic mx-5 also, but thermals a liitle higher.. But all good stuff really
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Thanks having trouble finding some that'll arrive in time for the weekend.

There's this stuff but there seems to be about 3 different versions with different prices
THERMAL GRIZZLY Kryonaut Thermal Grease which I can pick up tomorrow for £5.99 from currys
 
I think kryonaut is one of those used for extreme overclocking and can be used with liquid nitrogen.. It stays liquid which also means it suffers from 'pump out' (might have terminology slightly wrong) where over time the paste gets pushed out sideways from cpu/cooler plate, requiring reapplication every year.
Thats why i mentioned ones above as once applied they're generally good, and have a 5yrs plus life.
There are reviews of people using it still after couple of years... I'm just lazy and didnt want to do that.
The 2 above are the latest, but also nt-h1 and mx-4. Been a few months since i sat and read everything, will try and do a quick refresh
 
Craig_d1 said:
I think kryonaut is one of those used for extreme overclocking and can be used with liquid nitrogen.. It stays liquid which also means it suffers from 'pump out' (might have terminology slightly wrong) where over time the paste gets pushed out sideways from cpu/cooler plate, requiring reapplication every year.
Thats why i mentioned ones above as once applied they're generally good, and have a 5yrs plus life.
There are reviews of people using it still after couple of years... I'm just lazy and didnt want to do that.
The 2 above are the latest, but also nt-h1 and mx-4. Been a few months since i sat and read everything, will try and do a quick refresh
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Now that's put me off.

I'm pretty sure I've the artic silver on my cpu and I've never reapplied it.

Cancelled the other paste and gone with the
Noctua NT-H2
 
I used artic silver and never had to reapply, and was going to use it, but was told it's really old school (was over 15 yes ago)...its also electrically conductive so if you make a mess can fry your mobo...hence why I started reading up a bit. The mx4 and mx5(this years stuff) is artic's more modern pastes which are long lasting and non conductive. They require a 24 hrs curing after application though go fully dry etc but then good to go. Just not quite as good as the noctua in my opinion, but to be fair, think unless you doing serious over locking, they'd all be fine
 
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