What's the current TIM of choice?

fowler002 · 6 Jun 2015 at 10:53

I currently have tube of MX-2 which is a couple of years old and think it's drying up, I'm finally going to get around to putting my watercooling loop together(have had the parts since December) and need new TIM.

Can you use the same TIM on the GPU as well? It's been several years since I watercooled a gpu, last time I used the same TIM on the gpu waterblock as the cpu waterblock.

FloppyPoppy · 6 Jun 2015 at 10:56

Great thread by Stulid regarding thermal pastes

Whilst a little old still very relevant. I use Gelid GC Extreme on all my builds and can't thank Stulid enough for making the guide! Absolutely great paste all round.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 6 Jun 2015 at 15:12

+1 for the Gelid.

mmj_uk · 6 Jun 2015 at 19:18

I always tend to use MX4 now but I can't imagine there's much difference between any of them, main thing is to use the blob method so that no air gets trapped like when you spread it beforehand.

wazza300 · 6 Jun 2015 at 20:06

coollaboratory liquid pro for cpu's

and mx4 for gpu's because its much thicker and non conductive

russell664 · 7 Jun 2015 at 16:43

I use MX4 or Arctic Silver as I still have some tubes.

tipes · 7 Jun 2015 at 21:08

Gelid extreme for me too - great stuff.

setter · 7 Jun 2015 at 21:14

I'm looking forward to the new thermal grizzly paste. Reputedly matches liquid metal but no conduction or cleaning problems.

stujim · 12 Jun 2015 at 23:28

Just bought some Gelid GC Extreme, as it seems a lot of people recommend it. is it much better than arctic silver 5, which is what i currently use?

OLDPHART · 13 Jun 2015 at 06:40

setter said:
I'm looking forward to the new thermal grizzly paste. Reputedly matches liquid metal but no conduction or cleaning problems.

+1, Would like to know how Bear Fat performs

Hi setter hows u?

setter · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:12

Good mate, see the grizzly paste is in stock. As ill be installing a new gpu shortly, I might order a tube of thus stuff and redo my cpu cooler while I'm at it.

Smoogels · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:29

I normally just stick to MX4. Always found it easy to use, remove and performed pretty well. Being non conductive was a plus to.

Disco_P · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:40

setter said:
Good mate, see the grizzly paste is in stock. As ill be installing a new gpu shortly, I might order a tube of thus stuff and redo my cpu cooler while I'm at it.

Iirc you're on liquid metal at the moment?

setter · 13 Jun 2015 at 09:47

Mx4 on the chip in sig, used it on both 4790k's. But used both liquid metal and mx4 on the 4770k. 5c difference improvement from using liquid metal. Didn't bother with it this time as its a curse to clean. Not so bad on the cooler base as a buff with the supplied scouring pad sorts that. But if used on the ihs it removes the cpu info and marks the surface which invalidates the warranty.

tipes · 13 Jun 2015 at 16:03

Hi all,

My grizzly arrived this morning - have just finished drain down and re build. Will compare against Gelid extreme, which is what I normally use. Will report back with some figures shortly.

Mark

Update - results of first test.
Aida stability test run of ten minutes(not a long time I know, but this is just to give first impressions.
5960X at v core of 1.316 volts

Old paste - Gelid Extreme:-
Room temp 70 degrees
Individual cores gave- 66/66/72/69/71/65/67/65 a spread of 7 degrees over the cores. Core 3 hottest at 72.

New paste - Grizzly Kryonaut:-
Room temp 70.5 degrees
Individual cores gave - 65/65/70/66/68/64/65/64 a spread of 6 degrees over the cores. core 3 again hottest core at 70.

General observations:-
Easy to spread, but did notice that it was best to try and spread each line of paste with the spreading tip in one go if possible, as multiple
goes at spreading seemed to result in the paste getting slightly sticky, and so you could pull up a bit where it was already spread - you may find it different for you.

As for results - this is only one run so I need to do more to get an average, and maybe this paste as many do, might need a bit od bedding in - so may improve.
Also there is probably still a small amount of air in the system still to bleed out yet.

So overall I am impressed so far as three degrees saved is always useful headroom, and this may yet improve a bit. I think the cores are now a more even temperature across
all cores so that is all to the good as well.

Hope people find this usefull as a rough guide. I will do further testing an report back my findings.

fowler002 · 13 Jun 2015 at 22:42

tipes said:
Hi all,

My grizzly arrived this morning - have just finished drain down and re build. Will compare against Gelid extreme, which is what I normally use. Will report back with some figures shortly.

Mark

Update - results of first test.
Aida stability test run of ten minutes(not a long time I know, but this is just to give first impressions.
5960X at v core of 1.316 volts

Old paste - Gelid Extreme:-
Room temp 70 degrees
Individual cores gave- 66/66/72/69/71/65/67/65 a spread of 7 degrees over the cores. Core 3 hottest at 72.

New paste - Grizzly Kryonaut:-
Room temp 70.5 degrees
Individual cores gave - 65/65/70/66/68/64/65/64 a spread of 6 degrees over the cores. core 3 again hottest core at 70.

General observations:-
Easy to spread, but did notice that it was best to try and spread each line of paste with the spreading tip in one go if possible, as multiple
goes at spreading seemed to result in the paste getting slightly sticky, and so you could pull up a bit where it was already spread - you may find it different for you.

As for results - this is only one run so I need to do more to get an average, and maybe this paste as many do, might need a bit od bedding in - so may improve.
Also there is probably still a small amount of air in the system still to bleed out yet.

So overall I am impressed so far as three degrees saved is always useful headroom, and this may yet improve a bit. I think the cores are now a more even temperature across
all cores so that is all to the good as well.

Hope people find this usefull as a rough guide. I will do further testing an report back my findings.

Which one did you go for as there's 3 varieties.

Edit: doh missed it in the 'essay'

I was about to order the gelid(as it seemed to be suggest by most people) from the rain forest, however if the new stuff is worth it I might give it a try, will be water cooling a 4770 with the xspc raystorm.