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What thermal paste ?

RobTi

RobTi

RobTi

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Hi just ordered a Ryzen 5 2600 and new Mb and wondered about the above,thought I had some AS5 lying about but no, so what are you all using in this day and age ?
Thanks
 
Unless you're going for extreme sub-zero overclocking there is almost no difference in the performance of thermal pastes.

I usually stick with MX-4, but the Gelid Extreme that came with my EK waterblock got used on CPU and GPU at that time.
 
LePhuronn said:
Unless you're going for extreme sub-zero overclocking there is almost no difference in the performance of thermal pastes.

I usually stick with MX-4, but the Gelid Extreme that came with my EK waterblock got used on CPU and GPU at that time.
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This...

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Thermal Grizzly gets a good write up but MX4 is perfectly fine and relatively cheap per gram.
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...and this.

I'm using years old Arctic Silver 5 with a £50 AIO on my X5650 and at idle I'm currently looking at temps of 20/24/16/18/20/21 C.

Yeh, it's winter!
 
I've always used as5 or mx4 can't really go wrong with them. Grizzly is supposed to be slightly better but as mentioned before, there's not much difference.
 
MX2 is good combination of value and performance. Was tempted to get grizzly but the performance increases wasn't worth the price for me.
 
Tried grizzly but preferred Prolimatech PK3 as I find grizzly a little runny, been using it for years. Find it works great on the CPU and GPU, not to watery and not to thick.
 
koooowweeee said:
Doesn't have a good shelf life.

I got some, next time I used it, it was almost soild in the tube.
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I recently found some from 5 years ago still sealed, it was lost from an OCUK promotion, opened it and it was still ok.

I run home servers in my house, some of these machines are running 24/7, oldest server is from 2013. Never once in my live had to replace IC Diamond paste, it's fit and forget. Other advantage it tends to weld it self once set, so it helps reduce the cooler coming loose.
 
JasonM said:
I recently found some from 5 years ago still sealed, it was lost from an OCUK promotion, opened it and it was still ok.

I run home servers in my house, some of these machines are running 24/7, oldest server is from 2013. Never once in my live had to replace IC Diamond paste, it's fit and forget. Other advantage it tends to weld it self once set, so it helps reduce the cooler coming loose.
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Thanks wedding got it from. 2 different types. Both dryed up. I did use some out of each one, so not sealed like yours.
 
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